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Windows 8 is designed to be cloud-powered, so it comes with Metro style apps for communication, sharing, scheduling, photos, and videos. Preview versions of these apps come installed with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and include Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Messaging, and SkyDrive.…

2010 will probably be remembered as the year of the Cloud – cloud computing that is. It seems like talk of the Cloud is everywhere right now, and to join in the fun, Windows Live and Bing teamed up last month to host a competition for users to submit photos that illustrate how Windows Live…

Liveside reports on a collaboration between the Windows Live Photo Gallery team and location-based social network Foursquare to guide you to some of the world’s great photo locations. Piloting in Seattle, San Francisco and New York, when you check-in at selected locations you’ll receive tips from…

Windows Live Essentials 2011 (formerly Wave 4) has RTW-ed (Released To the Web). Download for free at this link: http://download.live.com The 2011 suite includes a tonne of new features including Facebook Chat integration within Messenger Bing Maps integration and improved geo-tagging support in…

In another great example of Microsoft tying its different services together, Windows Live Hotmail now integrates with Bing Maps. According to the Bing team, when you create a new email, one of the new options on the Insert Menu in Hotmail is “From Bing.” It sits to the right of the standard…

The Windows Live team has just pushed out a refresh of the Windows Live Essentials beta. This suite of add-on programs for Windows includes favorite apps like Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Live Writer, Movie Maker and Family Safety, all of which can be optionally installed or skipped when you…

On the new Windows Live Contacts site (still rolling out now worldwide), you can store all your online contacts in one place – even those not originally in Windows Live! When you visit the URL http://contacts.live.com, you’re presented with a list of your Windows Live Contacts (assuming you have…

Angus Logan from the Windows Live Messenger team stopped by to tell us about the Live Messenger Connect API, what devs can do with it and where to get it. There is a controls playground where you try some of the controls. For more info or to get the SDK go…

Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta introduces the new Windows Live Sync beta, the spiritual successor and replacement to Live Mesh and FolderShare.In this video we look at how Sync works, how it compares to the Live Mesh Technical Preview and how to migrate your Mesh network over to Sync.In…

The highly anticipated upgrade to the Windows Live Essentials software is being made available today for public beta testing. This new version updates all of the add-on Windows programs collectively known as the Windows Live Essentials. This includes Windows Live Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail,…