Windows Live MessengerPart of Windows Essentials
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Connect instantly to the people who matter to you most. It’s the perfect way to chat, connect, play, and share.
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New! Keep up with friends online
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New! Your favorites
Easily interact with the people you contact most. Favorites is “
speed-dial
” for your contact list: your most important contacts are anchored at the top of the Messenger window. - New! Groups Chat simultaneously with up to 20 people to make staying in touch easy. Every new Group in Messenger gets its own home page and group calendar.
- Personalize: Easily change how your contacts see you with various scenes and animated display pictures.
- Video chat: Why just text when you can see and hear your favorite people? See friends and family in full-screen, real-time chat. (You and your friend need a microphone, speakers or a headset, a webcam, and broadband access.)
- Multiple services, one account: Talk to Yahoo! friends from within Messenger—and sign up friends from Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged, and LinkedIn to be Messenger contacts.
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1/8/2009, Windows Live Dev Team
As Steve Ballmer just announced during his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Windows Live has three big pieces of news to share with you that underscore our continued commitment to simplifying your digital life. ...
Laundry list of wants for Windows Live wave 4
1/9/2009, Jamie
A few days ago I published a blog entry What's next in Windows Live wave 4 where I threatened to publish a list of features I would like to see implemented in the next version of Windows Live; here is that list. I’m putting this up here mainly for my own ...
- Use Messenger to check your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail account with a single click.
- Send and receive instant messages from Messenger with Windows Live for Mobile on your mobile device.
- Send text messages from within Windows Live Mail to friends and family on your contact list through Messenger.
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Laundry list of wants for Windows Live wave 4
1/9/2009, Jamie
A few days ago I published a blog entry What's next in Windows Live wave 4 where I threatened to publish a list of features I would like to see implemented in the next version of Windows Live; here is that list. I’m putting this up here mainly for my own ...
Keeping your life in sync
11/29/2008, Dev
Windows Live – Keeping your life in syncI’m Brian Hall, and I lead the Windows Live business group. Today is a very exciting day for Windows Live – for the hundreds of people who work on building and delivering Windows Live, for the hundreds of millions ...
Wall Street Journal Review of Windows Live
12/20/2008, Braden
Click this link if video does not appear If you use the Internet regularly, your activities are likely spread out all over the Web. You might be sharing photos on Flickr, emailing via Hotmail, posting status updates on Facebook, following ...
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Workaround for webcam problems in Windows Live Messenger
1/21/2009, Windows Live Dev Team
We’ve heard that a small number of you are experiencing audio and video problems with your webcam after installing the latest version of Windows Live Messenger. After looking into this, we found that for users who are seeing error code 0x8AC70013 or ...
Your Windows Live network explained
12/7/2008, Jamie
If you’re anything like me then you’ll currently be a bit mystified as to what your Windows Live “network” is and how that relates to Spaces friends, Messenger buddies and Hotmail contacts. I was asking myself questions such as: What’s the difference ...
Searching for Signature Sounds in Windows Live Messenger?
12/17/2008, Marcus
When we released the first beta of Windows Live Messenger 2009, I blogged about the "signature sound" feature that I thought was so cool. Well, I think it must have been a little annoying to some people and/or they couldn’t figure out how to ...
Windows Live Essentials Released
12/15/2008, winston
Summary: Windows Live Essentials programs Mail Messenger Photo Gallery Writer Movie Maker (only a beta version is available) Family Safety Toolbar Optional Programs Office Outlook Connector Office Live Add-in Microsoft Silverlight Links for ...
Windows Live……Sorting People on your Network.
12/20/2008, Technogran
In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to sort out all those people in your Network into separate categories to help you to easily search for certain people in your NETWORK and also more clearly reflect the way that you might want to access them and ...
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