Windows Live Chronicles

Over the last few months we have rolled-out many new features and improvements to your Hotmail account (and we will continue to do so). It is now faster, with better Spam and Virus protection and ever-growing storage. You also have access to Windows Live Messenger directly from your Hotmail page and can access it from any computer connected to the Internet. In the next few days you will now have the ability to send and receive your messages from other email accounts in one place. Hotmail gives you one place to login and check ALL your messages.

You can learn more about these new features from Julie and Hal:

We are working hard to keep our users satisfied, and with close to 19 million users* we are the proud leader of Webmail services in Canada.

Your Canadian Windows Live team

* Source ComScore Canada – May 2009

Free your photos from their prisons! Stop the senseless deletions! Only you can help us:

http://www.freeyourphotos.ca/

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On behalf of the Windows Live team, I want to introduce you to the latest update in the Windows Live social networking portfolio – starting today, you can keep your friends up to date in Windows Live from Facebook!  Now if you upload new pictures to facebook, share news, videos, status updates, … all of these will show up in your what’s new feed in Messenger, Hotmail, and your Windows Live Homepage!

All you need to do is to click on the following link then follow 3 easy steps: add, authenticate, allow, and you are set! 

Not a facebooker?  With this release we also launched many other partner integrations as well, such as  Digg, Last.fm, Photobucket, and more.  Click here to look at all the latest partners we have available!

Old news to many, hopefully still new to some!

To all you facebookers and messenger lovers, I know you love updating facebook status message all the times and I also you love messenger and you are keeping it on 24x7, now here’s one tip that helps you update your facebook status messenger even more often!!

Now you can update your facebook status via messenger!

Here’s what it will look like

To do it, it’s actually simpler than you think:

1st - add the messenger app to your facebook,  http://apps.facebook.com/windowslivemessenger/.  [P.S. this app is created by Microsoft]

2nd go to the settings page, and check the second box

QED!

And I’d love to end this post with a quote from my friend Dharmesh..

It’s a mistake! Please just ignore it – you won’t have any problem signing into Messenger using your existing Messenger ID.  Our core team has also made a blog post here.  We are really sorry for the confusion that this might have caused, but trust me, I also feel your pain: even though I didn’t see the error myself (was having dinner), I received quite a number of emails asking me about the legitimacy of such error :)

I guess on a brighter note, treat it as a belated April fool’s joke. :)

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With the recent launch of Messenger 2009, I’m sure you guys are burning, burning with feedbacks, suggestions, and any other questions you may have.  I just want to quickly put up a post so you can get all Canadian specific contact information so you can direct any of your concerns / feedbacks to the right channel. 

* A rep would get back to you within a few days.  Please make sure that email doesn’t go into your junk mail folder.  Please don’t put feature suggestion here.  It will go into the wrong pipeline and your feedback may not be passed to the right person.

** Please don’t expect a direct email reply.  For questions about the product please use the technical support channel.  But I can guarantee you we take your feedback very, very seriously. I personally review Canadian specific feedbacks on a monthly basis.  So yes, someone’s reading your feedback :) Your verbatims will help me understand what you like/dislike about messenger so I can submit feature request for the next wave of messenger.

This is hilarios :)  It’s a campaign running in the US, basically it’s a face off between two generations and see how fast they can master a feature in a certain product, worth a watch. 

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8 vs 80: Slide show

9 vs 90: Photo Sharing

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Let’s stay I want to share a picture of my 3 month old son with my mom who loves to print her favorite photos of her grandson. Santa brought her a nice photo printer last Christmas. To make the photo look great when printed, it is strongly recommended to print from the highest resolution file. Thankfully Windows Live can help and here is how to do it in just 6 easy steps.

First, let me remind you that Windows Live Photos (http://photos.live.com/) gives you plenty of online space to store and share your pictures. On average, based on a quick calculation, 25GB should hold from 10,000 to 15,000 pictures, depending on the resolution. The best part is that it’s completely free.

Step one:
If you haven’t already done so, download and install the latest Windows Live Photo Gallery at http://download.live.com

Step two:
Launch Windows Live Photo Gallery from your Programs menu in Windows. On the left side of your screen, you will see all of your pictures organized by Folder, Date and Tags.

Step three:
Select the pictures you want to share online.

Step four:
From the menu at the top, click on Publish and then Online album from the toolbar.

Step five:
You now have the option to choose a name for your album or you can choose an existing album. In order to store and share the original size picture, make sure you choose the Upload Size option to Original. See screenshot below.

When choosing the album, you can set your sharing permissions. You will find additional options including: selecting categories and individuals in your online album (http://photos.live.com/).

Make sure you organize your categories to share with just the people you want with a couple of clicks. This could be the subject of another blog article…

Step six:
After the upload, your pictures are ready to be shared at http://photos.live.com/. Your friends and family  now have two great ways to download your pictures.

1) If they have the new Windows Live Photo Gallery installed (who doesn’t? ;-)) when opening the album, they can choose to download all the pictures from the album. From the More menu, they will find Download with Photo Gallery. See below.

2) They can also choose to download individual pictures by clicking on it and then selecting Download. See below.

Et voila! Your original pictures can now be printed in full resolution.

Hopefully, this quick guide will help you. Don’t hesitate to send us your feedback.

Your Canadian Windows Live team

More to come!

	Christmas Emoticon Pack 2008
	Athlete Theme Pack Aug 2008
	GTA IV Theme Pack
	Love Family Emoticon Pack
	Halo 3 Theme Pack
	Messenger Emoticon Pack

http://www.youup.com/site/page-download-demo.html

This is actually pretty amazing stuff!  Check out the demo video on the site and you’ll know what I mean (hopefully :)).  Warning though, the site is written in French.  I’m going to download the private beta and try it out tonight.