More Features For Windows Live Internet Services
Windows Live Internet services will have a major release soon as announced by Microsoft. Windows Live Internet services includes Home.Live.com, the What’s New feed, Profile, People, Photos, Web Messenger built into Hotmail, and more. The next generation of Windows Live will become available at windowslive.com, bringing enhanced tools to make online activities easier, more integrated and more intuitive.
The new Windows Live experience is also enhanced by Microsoft partners with feeds from third-party sites that help you stay up to date on what’s new with friends and family, and see information from other online services such as Flickr, Pandora, Photobucket, Twitter ,WordPress and Yelp- all in one place.
Windows Live Internet Services include;
- Windows Live Hotmail
- Windows Live Photos (New!)
- Windows Live Skydrive
- Windows Live Calender
- Windows Live Profile (New!)
- Windows Live Spaces
- Windows Live Groups (New!)
- Windows Live Events
- Windows Live People (New!)
Major changes include the addition of new services like Photos, Profiles, Groups and People. Live Home page will have a new design which will have all your Live service detailed. Live Hotmail will have a new version which is simpler, faster and more intuitive. POP support for email in Hotmail will finally be freely available, starting sometime around January 2009. This is full POP support, both into and out of Hotmail, for free. Apart from this Hotmail will also feature Web Messenger, so that you can chat with your friends right inside your mail box.
Windows Live Skydrive to get more features including more storage of 25GB from the current 5GB. With Windows Live Profile, you will be able to quickly and easily broadcast key information about yourself from Windows Live and ultimately more than 50 partner sites to your Windows Live network.
Windows Live People page is for storage and management of your Windows Live contacts. It’s a central address book that contains your contacts from Windows Live Hotmail as well as all the people in your Windows Live network.
Windows Live Desktop softwares like Writer, Messenger, Live mail etc will be included as Windows Live Essentials.
These features will be rolled out in the coming months over a span of 6 months or so. If you want to check out the screenshots of new Live Wave 3 (web) features, head over to Live Side blog, where they have reviewed the upcoming Live features.
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