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Today, Microsoft has announced the merger of Office Live and Windows Live.  Instead of offering the applications as two different programs, consumers will have the ability to access both sets of services from one web location. 

Office Live is a collection of services appealing to small businesses and are designed as additions to the Microsoft Office software program.  The current products included with Office Live are Office Live Workspace, Office Live Small Business and Office Live Groove.  Windows Live is a set of consumer software programs that provide mail, instant messaging, blogging services and more.

The merger will correspond with Microsoft’s coming Wave 4 release, which is planning to occur towards the end of the year.  It seems to be only an organizational development and does not seem to be an effect of the announcement of the company’s poor earnings and upcoming layoffs.  Currently, Microsoft has no plans to make adjustments to the current organization leadership of the programs.

Read [ZDNet]