Mary Jo Foley for ZDNet:

“We are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved,” said Joe Matz, Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Licensing and Pricing at Microsoft, in a March 8 blog post.

OnLive, for the uninitiated, is a gaming service that streams content to your desktop or your iPad. It works by remotely hosting the content, streaming a video of it to your local machine (and yeah, it really does work). Now OnLive is making waves with its new OnLive Desktop service, which does the same but for the Windows 7 operating system and real productivity apps like Microsoft Office.

(via The Verge)