Microsoft has just released Windows Live Essential Beta to the public, and we’re still testing it out. You can download your own Essential by following the link at the bottom. We’re still in the process of testing it out. It looks rather massive though.
Integration with Your Favorite Social Web Sites – share your activity with all your social network in a simple page
This is rather bold, and among the biggest changes involved. The Essential has added a ridiculously long list of web services and social networks into its support. Now you’re able to connect all your accounts from those social networks and simultaneously update all of them in Essential. You can even share your activities in Windows Live to those sites using Essential.
It’s best to head over to your Windows Live account page to control your privacy settings first, in order to have a control over whatever you would like to share.
Windows Live Messenger – gets a new look, the rather older ’simplify’ look is now gone.
Windows Live Messenger gets a revamped look, adding support for Facebook and MySpace. Now you can comment and see your friends’ updated status while being connected to Windows Live Messenger chat buddies. You can also add other people from other services like Google Contacts or LinkedIn, but they will have to accept your invite before you can communicate via Windows Live.
Windows Live Movie Maker – easily edit your videos and upload to YouTube snappily
Likewise with the updated Windows Live Movie Maker, it’s now much easier to publish your videos to SkyDrive, YouTube, or Facebook without much hassle. You can easily manage all your private videos, and easily share them on specific social sites.
Windows Live Mail – combo of Outlook and Word
The Windows Live Mail beta adds support for the newly redesigned Hotmail, besides other email services such as Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail. There’s not much else here except that it’s much easier to add your webmail, and Mail is a decent option for a Microsoft-built desktop email client without shelling out for Outlook. Looked very refined indeed.
Windows Live Sync – file sharing made easy!
Now this is also massive, to me. You can sync all your files that you wanna share across all your PCs in the network, as well as share it onto Microsoft’s online file storage service, SkyDrive. But it doesn’t stop there, as you can even sync your IE’s settings and your MS Office’s settings across your whole Windows Live platform, making office works easily accessible across all your networks. Talk about virtual workspace done right, if you set it up correctly. Remote access for your computers is also made available for Live Sync, though we’ve yet to test it out.
Windows Live Writer – crafted specially for bloggers
Something that I believe many bloggers will love, the Live Writer connects to majority of your blogging service sites like Blogger, Blogspot, Spaces, and Wordpress. Update your blog easily, without the need to login specifically onto that particular site, now this is really “Blogging made Easy”.
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