Microsoft windows live essentials

Hello... Microsoft has released Windows live essentials to enrich the user experience and provide a better option to share documents. Essentials include below softwares

1. Messenger
2. Mail
3. Writer
4. Photo Gallery
5. Movie Maker beta
6. Family Safety
7. Toolbar
8. Microsoft Office Outlook® Connector
9. Office Live Add-in
10.Microsoft Silverlight

1. Messenger
Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected to the people you care about.
Favorites and groups - Put the people you chat with most at the top of your contacts, so you easily see when they’re online. Want to chat with several people in one window? Just set up a group.
Customize - Show off your personal style with custom scenes, animated display pictures, and signature sounds.
Share photos - Look at photos together, right in the conversation window. And Messenger tells you when people you know post new photos on Windows Live.

2. Mail
Everything in one place - Get multiple e-mail accounts in one program – Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!* and more. And now Windows Live Mail has a calendar, too. Mail combines the ease of use of Outlook Express, with the speed of Windows Live.

3. Writer
Blog your heart out - Writer makes it easy to share your photos and videos on almost any blog service—Windows Live, Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and many more.

4. Photo gallery
From your camera to the web - With Photo Gallery, it's a snap to get your photos and videos from your camera to your PC. Find your favorite photos and share them with friends and family. Make your great photos look even better, and create impressive panoramic photos too.

5. Movie maker
Ready, set, action! - Create movies from your pictures and video clips, and share them with your friends and family.

6. Family safety
Help keep your kids safer online - With Family Safety, you decide how your kids experience the Internet. You can limit searches, block or allow websites, decide who your kids can communicate with when they’re using Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail, or Spaces and monitor what websites they're visiting.

7. Toolbar
Stay connected to Windows Live - With Windows Live Toolbar, you always have quick access to Windows Live and Live Search, no matter where you are on the web.

8. Microsoft Office Outlook® Connector
Manage all your email accounts with ease - Outlook Connector provides a free solution for managing your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail and contacts from within Outlook. With the new release of the Outlook Connector, you can connect your Windows Live Hotmail account in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003 free of charge.

9. Office Live Add-in - Store and Share Documents Online Free
Use your Workspace to:
* Access and share files from anywhere
* Save thousands of Microsoft Office documents in one online place
* Open and save files from familiar programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

10. Microsoft Silverlight
Silverlight powers rich application experiences wherever the Web works.

Download the essentials from Microsoft @ http://download.live.com/messenger