Windows Live Gets Makeover and Goes Social
Microsoft is starting to roll out Windows Live wave 3 . It got a new paint job and lots of upgrades. The changes in many ways are a lot of catch up work but there is some promising work being done.
Some of the interesting work comes in the Profile page which shows all of your activities on Windows Live as well as other Web services like Twitter, Flickr, and Yelp.
Microsoft is obviously betting that all the fragmentation in social networks will make aggregation the killer social app. Bringing all your social feeds into one place coupled with 450 million Windows Live users might be a compelling value proposition and strategy. With Facebook embracing “openness” with Facebook Connect this might play right into Microsoft’s strategy.
The Windows Live Photo app has a pretty cool slide show feature that uses Silverlight to change the background color to match the dominant color in each photo, similar to the Philips Ambilight TVs. Microsoft also boosted the storage limit of its online file storage service, SkyDrive, from 5GB to 25GB.
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