Earlier today, Microsoft Corp. announced the upcoming launch of various new Windows Live services. Already available for download - albeit in Beta - at http://download.live.com, today's launch highlighted some of the interesting aspects that these new applications carry.
Headlining the pack is a Facebookesque interface called "What's New". Functioning much like the Facebook home page, the What's New page will aggregate updates from various social networking sites, as well as from your MSN Windows Live Messenger contact list. Windows Live Messenger (Beta) also comes with a spankin' new interface, which unfortunately looked a little too cluttered for our liking.
Some other applications that were showcased today included Windows Live Calendar (an online version of Outlook's Calendar functionality), Windows Live Events (a Windows Live version of the Events application on Facebook), an updated Windows Live Hotmail interface, Windows Live Photos (for tagging/storing/sharing photos online) and Windows Live SkyDrive (25GB of online storage!).
The whole suite of new Windows Live applications (with documentation) are already available at http://download.live.com. The suite of applications are expected to go live - i.e. not Beta - on 13 December, so if you're not too keen on playing around with Beta software check back in about a month's time.
