Upload Photos to Facebook with New Windows Live Photo Gallery Plug-in
Michael Palermiti, Program Manager on the Windows Live Digital Memories Experience Team (the awesome people responsible for Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker), has posted about a new plug-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta that allows you to upload photos directly to Facebook. Using LiveUpload to Facebook, users can configure multiple Facebook accounts to upload photos to in Windows Live Photo Gallery. Upload to Facebook supports the ability to upload photos to existing albums on Facebook or create new ones.
Download: LiveUpload to Facebook
What’s even better about the LiveUpload to Facebook plug-in is that it takes advantage of Windows Live Photo Gallery’s new People Tags feature. That means if you tag a person you are also friends with on Facebook – once you upload the photo to Facebook that tag will automatically appear on the published photo.
You can download the Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta, along with Betas for the rest of the Windows Live Essentials suite, at download.live.com today. The plug-in only works with the Beta.
Source- Windows Experience Blog
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25GB of Free Online Storage with Windows Live SkyDrive
The Windows Live SkyDrive Team has posted a in-depth post offering a overview of what’s coming with their next update. First and foremost: Windows Live SkyDrive will be boosting everyone’s storage from 5GB to 25GB. Secondly, they want to give you more control over your files by offering you new features to do so:
Download photos directed to your to Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Download as a .zip file. Download an entire folder in one compressed file (initially available only in the United States, Denmark, and Ireland).
Move files between folders.
Copy files to multiple folders.
Sharing photos is huge these days. They’ve added almost 20 new features to make the photo experience on Windows Live SkyDrive even better such as supporting People Tags, bigger thumbnails, and a new online slideshow using Microsoft Silverlight.
You will be able to also keep your Internet Explorer favorites synced up with multiple PCs using Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live SkyDrive.
There is a lot coming to Windows Live SkyDrive! Check out their blog post for more details on what’s coming up.
Source- Windows Experience Blog
Microsoft cuts apps from Windows 7
Microsoft has decided that Windows 7 won’t include built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista, CNET News.com has learned.
The software maker included Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, and Windows Movie Maker as part of Vista, but later chose to offer separate downloadable Windows Live programs that essentially replaced those components with versions that could connect to online services from Microsoft and others.
Microsoft told CNET News late Monday that it has decided to remove those features entirely from Windows 7 and instead offer only the service-connected Windows Live versions as optional free downloads. Earlier on Monday, Microsoft had declined to say how it was handling things.
In a follow-up interview on Monday, Windows Vista general manager Brian Hall said Microsoft made the decision to remove the tools from Windows for several reasons, including a desire to issue new operating system releases more quickly than it has in the past. The move also removes the confusion of offering and supporting two different programs that perform essentially similar functions.
Source: news.com
Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) Released (for FREE!)
Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE), released today is an advanced, stand alone version of the panoramic image stitching feature found in Windows Live Photo Gallery.
From the ICE web site:
"…shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats,… like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom"
More info here: HDView Blog
Download: http://research.microsoft.com/ivm/ice.html
Download Windows Live Wave 3 Beta
With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today. Here’s the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applications, including Messenger v9, Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail with Calendar synchronisation, Writer, Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the Outlook Connector. For the paranoid amongst you, yes the files are hosted on download.microsoft.com.
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-web.exe (only downloads the applications you select) 
Download Here (downloads all the applications, you can chose which ones to install) 
Thanx to Liveside
Windows Live Wave 3 features confirmed in Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar
The guys at liveside have reported that livesino have found in Windows Live Help revealing and confirming Wave 3 features in the Windows Live Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar. Here’s a summary of what’s they discovered:
- Windows Live Photo Gallery:
Add people tags (Textual data attached to a photo to refine its definition and meaning by identifying the person or persons in the photo. You can sort your photos according to what people tags they have, making it easier to find photos of your friends and family.) to your photos to make sorting and finding photos of your friends and family easier. You can create people tags and add them to your photos at any time.
- Windows Live Mail:
Calendars: You can create calendars and events whether you’re signed in to Windows Live Mail or not. However, if you do sign in, any calendars that you’ve created in Windows Live Calendar Beta are automatically imported into Windows Live Mail, and changes that you make in either Windows Live Mail or Windows Live Calendar Beta are reflected in the other. Also, your calendars are available from any computer on which you sign in to Windows Live Mail. If you don’t sign in, you can access your calendars only from the computer on which you created them. For more information, see About calendars.
You can also update when events occur and schedule events to occur regularly over a period of days, weeks, months, or years. If you sign in to Windows Live Mail with your Windows Live ID, Windows Live Mail can send you reminders (A scheduled message that Windows Live Mail sends to you to remind you that an event in your calendar is about to occur) before each event starts to help ensure that you never miss an event.
It even reveals the little Calendar icon that’s going to appear in Windows Live Mail: - Windows Live Toolbar
Windows Live Calendar Beta is a free online calendar program that you can use to keep track of personal appointments, family get-togethers, group schedules, birthdays, holidays, and other events. When you’re signed in with your Windows Live ID, you can always see a summary of your calendar on Windows Live Toolbar Beta, and the Calendar Beta website is just a click away.
Windows Live Wave 3 is coming
The Windows Live Wave 3 is coming and with it comes the new versions of Microsoft’s Live products along with some of the new product releases.According to the sources the Windows Live Wave 3 is expected to be released by the end of summer means somewhere around September.
As we have already reported the Windows Live product page and the search page both have been changed.
Let us discuss on some of the new things added in Windows Live Wave 3
New unified header
The new header would be added to the online services of Windows Live.One thing to note is that they have removed the ORB from the header,and the search box has also been made smaller and also according to the information available the users would be able to customize the header images.
Here is the one image of header that I found while searching-
The header seems interesting isn’t it.The header image did give ‘wow’ feeling.
Windows Live Messenger
As we know that the Windows Live messenger 9 is already currently in testing stage.Though the Windows Live Messenger M1 has already been leaked and most of the people would be using it still their is some more goodies to come for all the messenger lovers.According to the sources they are going to change the design of the Windows Live messenger 9.Still the new features expected in Windows Live Messenger 9 are editing,polygamy and ofcourse multiple logins.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
The coming version of Windows Live Photogallery would be surely awesome with some good features coming in it.One of the confirmed feature is the face reorganization.Here is the image that we were able to find on the net-
(image courtesy manicho )
In the new Windows Live Photogallery we could add tags to the faces, really interesting indeed!!
Windows Live Frameit
With FrameIt, you can set up photo collections to stream into your digital photo frame or any of your RSS enabled devices.We have already blogged about it earlier and the beta version of Windows Live Frameit has already been released.If you haven’t seen it yet, give it a try at http://frameit.live.com.
Windows Live Hotmail
The information about Windows Live Hotmail is very less though we could expect an integration with Windows Live SkyDrive (service virtual disk with a capacity of 5GB that, who knows, may also be increased, although the chances of it happen to be low) and would also bring a new feature, called People, although the information about this release is very less.
We are also expecting integration of Windows Live Calender in Windows Live mail though the information about it is very less.
To sum up the Windows Live Wave 3 would be really awesome with many surprises in it.We would be keeping you updated about anything we find about Windows Live Wave 3.
Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering That Combines Microsoft Office and Windows Live OneCare
Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft Equipt, an all-in-one security and productivity software subscription service for consumers. In one easy installation, the service delivers award-winning anti-malware protection technology and features to simplify PC management and help improve performance, the productivity tools people use to organize their lives, and online services that help make it easy to keep in touch with friends and family.
Initially code-named “Albany,” Microsoft Equipt offers consumers Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, giving them the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote for their personal and school projects; Windows Live OneCare, the all-in-one security and PC management service; Windows Live tools, such as Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Photo Gallery so they can connect and share with people they care about most; and Office Live Workspace, a new service from Microsoft that makes it easy to save documents to a dedicated online Workspace and share them with friends and classmates. Anytime a new version of Office or Windows Live OneCare is released, Microsoft Equipt customers will get the version upgrades as part of their subscriptions.
Pricing and Availability
Microsoft Equipt is $69.99 (U.S.) estimated retail price for a one-year renewable subscription. Each subscription will be good for three home PCs, making Microsoft Equipt ideal for families and individuals with one or several computers.
Microsoft Equipt will be sold in nearly 700 Circuit City stores in the U.S. starting mid-July 2008.
Source- Microsoft Press Release
