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Upgrade your Windows Live Services

Posted By: Brian Johnson | Nov 12th, 2007 @ 2:12 PM

Last week, Windows Live Services software was released and upgraded. If you had betas installed, or just earlier versions of the products, you can upgrade them to the latest and greatest in a few simple clicks. Check out the Windows Live Services page here for the link:

Windows Live Services
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When you run the installer against the earlier versions of the products, it will look something like this:

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This is the easiest way to get updated versions of Live Writer, Mail, Messenger and Photo Gallery.

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Get a yourname@live.com email now!

Posted By: Max Zuckerman | Nov 6th, 2007 @ 5:23 PM
Ever since we came out with live.com I have been a huge fan of the domain name.  You say "Google it" I say "Live it!"  To each his own.

Either way, for a long time I have been asking the product teams to use username@live.com instead of user@hotmail.com as my email address... and today they have delivered! Starting right now you can go here and register a name, like bubba@live.com, but you better hurry before all the good (short) names are taken and you end up with something like clownmember.f4r7@live.com.
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Use Windows Live Mail as an RSS Reader

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Sep 19th, 2007 @ 4:38 AM
It may come as a surprise to you, but there is a free, built-in RSS reader in Windows Vista. Haven't noticed it yet? It's the feed reader that's available in Vista's Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail utilizes the Internet Explorer 7 RSS feed store in Windows Vista. The Windows RSS platform takes this "Common Feed List" and intergrates it into Windows Live Mail. This means that any feed you subscribe to in IE7 automatically appears in your Windows Live Mail, too. The feeds are  displayed in a separate tab in Windows Live Mail, which makes it easy to switch between your feeds and your email. Since your feeds are in Live Mail, you can take advantage of the "Search Folders" technology to make custom folders for your feeds like "Flagged Feeds," "Unread Feeds," etc. Non-Vista users can get Windows Live Mail here. Thanks to the Windows Vista Blog for this tip!

 
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Sign Into Hotmail With One Click

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jul 30th, 2007 @ 3:27 AM

Did you know that you can sign into Hotmail with just one click? Neither did I, until I saw this post on Windows Live Chronicles blog. Here's how it works:

  1. Install the "Windows Live Sign In Assistant." Currently, this comes with Windows Live Messenger if you check the option to "Install Windows Live Sign-in Assistant."
  2. Go to http://mail.live.com instead of http://www.hotmail.com
  3. Check "Remember on this computer", and "Remember my password," then click "Login."
  4. Repeat process if you have more than one account. (For details on those steps, see their blog post.)
  5. From now on, you can access your mailbox from mail.live.com with one click! 
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