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Microsoft’s new direction for the services of its online
Windows Live will bring several new features meant to bring the format closer
to the one found on social-networking Web sites. Users will soon be able to
share photos with their friends and also add links to other pages such as
Twitter and LinkedIn.
At this point, according to Microsoft’s estimates, Windows
Live has more than 460 million users, which are expected to benefit from these
new options.
The new What’s New feed will allow users to bring in third-party
sites like the ones mentioned above and also Photobucket and Flickr. All the
information about their profiles, updates, new photos and other actions will be
available on the Windows Live network, letting friends know what’s new.
Microsoft announced that it will begin distribution for the
improved Windows Live to customers in the United States "over the coming
weeks and globally in 54 countries by early next year."
"We're now at the point where we can go beyond soloed
communication tools that don't work together -- and start to integrate the best
of them," said Windows Live general manger Brian Hall, adding that
"We're taking a huge step forward in providing an integrated personal
communication service."
The company will release another new set of tools, called
Windows Live Essentials, meant to connect the users’ PCs and their online
content stored on Windows Live. The tools are designed to help users manage
their e-mail and calendars, even when offline, and also to create blogs, more
easily tag and post their photos.
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