Online Services
Does your family spend lots of time online? Windows Live tools help you get connected with family and friends, create your own web site, search and more. This new set of services brings your online world together — the information you need, the people you care about and powerful protection — all at your fingertips.
Windows Live SkyDrive
Take flight with SkyDrive
One of the main challenges of the digital age is finding the secure space necessary to store your files where they can be easily accessed from wherever you are. That’s why SkyDrive makes so much sense for both personal and professional use. This password-protected storage system offers 5 GB of free online storage and allows you to create personal, shared and public folders. Collaborate and work remotely with complete ease as all file transfers are protected using Secure Socket Layers (SSL). For public folders, merely send a link to your contacts so they can view, but not change, the content. Accessing SkyDrive is simply a matter of signing onto Windows Live ID, and then you’re ready to fly.
Windows Live Events
Something worth celebrating
A life better planned is a life better lived. That’s the inspiration for Windows Live Events, a tool which lets you manage those gatherings both large and intimate from the comfort of your computer. Events gives you the means to create professional invitations, share photos, carry on conversations through discussion boards and manage all elements of get-togethers through Spaces, Messengers and Hotmail. With Events, you have the makings of a great party from the get-go.
Windows Live Search Maps
The world at your fingertips
The world is that much easier to navigate with Windows Live Search Maps. Point, click and go — wherever and whenever. With Search Maps you can get directions, share information, even check out the traffic situation. How great is that? Zoom in on your intended destination, map out alternative routes and add your own personal information about those locations that matter most to you. It’s all just a click away to get you rolling in the right direction.
Windows Live Toolbar
Life in the fast lane
As the world moves online, you want to have rapid access to all the information that matters to your life. Consider Windows Live Toolbar the express lane for getting you to where you need to go. Now you can personalize your web experience with custom buttons, accelerate your capacity to do more with smart menus and start a search from any web page. Far too logical a solution? Try it and decide for yourself. Requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
Windows Live Mail
The stamp of approval
Windows Live Mail is a free e-mail program from Microsoft that resembles the familiar Outlook Express. While it’s simple to navigate and designed to allow easy customization, it offers serious protection for all your e-mail accounts with up-to-date spam and virus filters that keep the unwanted out. Best of all you can access all your e-mail accounts — Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and more in one convenient location. Fire up a Windows Messenger conversation and check out your friends’ blogs while you’re at it. This is a mail program that has it all.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
The focus is on simplicity
Too many photos and not enough organization? It’s a common complaint, which is why we developed Photo Gallery. It simplifies the arrangement, management and enhancement of your photos and gives you the tools to keep everything in order. Name, date, rate and caption your selections with ease. Merge shots into panoramics, adjust colours, crop and correct those evil red-eye shots with a few simple clicks. Plus with Photo Gallery you can download entire albums from Windows Live Spaces. With a simple push of the Publish button, you’ll be sharing your favourites with family and friends.
Windows Live Writer
Give your blog a boost
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application designed to simplify publishing to your blog. Whatever the content — photos, videos, tags, maps — it’s simple and straightforward to create with Writer. If you don’t yet have a blog, this is the perfect place to start. Windows Live Writer is compatible with most major blog services (Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, Wordpress, Blogger and more) and comes complete with editing features and templates to help you keep up and post with ease.
Windows Live Messenger
Communicate instantly
With this new generation of MSN Messenger, you can start a conversation or call your friend’s PC and enable full-screen, full-motion video calling. Get easy access to family and friends via your contact list and instant access to their Windows Live Space. Use emoticons. Share online or offline photos, video and documents using the Sharing Folders tool. Start a conversation by typing, by talking via microphone or in person via video with your webcam. Best of all, you can download Messenger for free!
Windows Live Search
Search the Internet with ease
Live Search is simple, precise and uniquely yours. Choose what type of information you want to search — the web, news, content feeds, maps, images, etc. — to make your search your own. Get results from your searches with Instant Answers. Try a search of innovative 3-D maps or dynamic images. Why not create your own search engine with Macros? Live Search is also supported by mobile devices, such as cell phones and PDAs, so you can search while on the go.
Windows Live Spaces
Make your own web page
Create your own online space with Windows Live Spaces. Start a blog or hobby site to share with family and friends. Share your latest adventures with photos — up to 500 a month! Personalize your space with unique colours and themes, and stay in touch via Windows Live Messenger or Windows Live Mail right from your own page.
Internet Explorer
Browse the web
Browse the web with ease. Your browser, the program you use to wander the web, can make or break your online experience. That’s why it’s important to have the latest version running on your computer. Internet Explorer 7 is free and flexible. It’s a must-have for anyone who wants to experience the Internet at its fullest!
Office Live Workspace
Goodbye, flash drive
Office Live Workspace helps make your life easier. No more carting around flash drives and burned CD-ROMs or worrying about making sure you have important documents while travelling. Instead, save all your Office documents online for free, and access them from any computer connected to the Internet! Office Live Workspace lets you save more than 1,000 Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in a personal online workspace. The workspace comes password-protected so you can control who has access to your files. It also allows you to synchronize your contact, task and event lists within Outlook.
