Windows Live Software Bundle

Microsoft has now bundled all their windows Live software into a single configuration. This includes Mail, Messenger, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar and OneCare Family Safety. You can select the products you want and the installer program will download them and install without user intervention.

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Mail: Access your multiple e-mail accounts in one place

• Combine your Hotmail accounts, and even Gmail and premium Yahoo! accounts in one view
• Get spam and virus filters across all your e-mail accounts
• Start a Windows Live Messenger conversation right from your inbox

Messenger: Connect, share, and make your conversations count

• Connect, share, and make your conversations count
• Connect with your friends and family via text, voice and video
• Send text to mobile phones or handheld
• Control how and when your friends and family see you online

Photo Gallery: Get creative and share your photos and videos

• Get creative and share your photos and videos
• Easily edit and share your photo
• Organize, add captions, and make slide shows
• Share online with just a few clicks

Writer: Easily publish pictures, videos, and other rich content to your blog

• Easily publish pictures, videos, and other rich content to your blog
• See exactly what your blog posts will look like as you write them
• Compatible with Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, Live Journal, and many other blog services
• Insert and customize photos, videos, tags, and lots of other cool content

Toolbar: Easy access to Windows Live services from any Web page

• Easy access to Windows Live services from any Web page
• Start a search from any Web page
• Get easy access to Windows Live Hotmail and other services

OneCare Family Safety: Help protect your family and computer

Windows Live Writer has improved a lot. Writer now has almost all functionality a non-techie blogger would want. You can spell check your entry, insert images and edit them, apply transform and overlay to images, insert tables, insert map, insert tags, insert video, etc.. Writer also provides a lot of plug-ins you can add to your write like MSN / Yahoo smiley, insert source code, picasa image plug-in, digg this plug-in, social book marking tags, etc.. try it out and you will make your blogging very easy.  This entry is posted through Live Writer. I can even see all the labels/tags and select from the list. This is really cool. A real WYSIWYG editor. Congratulations the team!

Windows Live Photo Gallery is very good tool for browsing pictures stored in your desktop. Provides tagging of pictures, you can make albums or categorize the pictures without moving their location in the desktop. You can post these pictures on the web at Windows Live Space or to Flickr directly from the Photo Gallery. You can do some basic editing and print from Photo Gallery. The gallery works faster than Google’s Picasa for me.