Windows Live Beta is no longer a Beta service. It’s out of Beta and it has got a new look. See the next generation of Windows Live here Windows Live. So Microsoft may soon offer @live.com email addresses. According to CNET Microsoft is offering @live.com email address at get.live.com. But I didn’t see anything there and I tried to Sign Up from hotmail.com but still only @hotmail.com choice is there. Well, I managed to get an @live.com email address long time back using a hack but unfortunately it’s no longer working. And I wonder whether my @live.com email address would work or not when Microsoft starts giving @live.com officially.

The new Windows Live Service includes desktop software like Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery, and Windows Live Writer. And online services like Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, and Windows Live Family Safety. It’s available as a single download called Windows Live Suite (approximately a 130 MB download) but you are free to choose only the required applications and services. I didn’t installed any new services. I just upgraded my copy of Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Writer.

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Microsoft unwraps Windows Live desktop suite

The Google Pack of 13 applications, which include Picasa photo editing, Norton security scanning, IM client, browser toolbar, and desktop search, may be the closest competitor to the Windows Live bundle. However, the Google Pack does not offer a desktop blog composer or a e-mail client as Microsoft’s suite does.

Windows Live Emerges From Beta

Matt Rosoff, an analyst at the independent research group Directions on Microsoft, said this marketing push is indicative of divisions within Microsoft, between the old guard running the MSN online business and the Windows Live group. “Windows Live is about making Windows better by tying it to online services,” and thus driving more people to buy Windows computers, he said. MSN “is still the old business model,” of generating revenue with Web advertising based on online applications that don’t connect to Microsoft’s desktop software.

Microsoft Releases Windows Live Software Suite

Windows Live Suite is a set of Web-connected applications for Windows that can be installed with a 130 MB download. Microsoft’s Windows Live brand of software and services has sputtered along for much of the last two years, sowing confusion about what exactly it is and what it isn’t. On Tuesday, Microsoft is bringing a bit of clarity to Windows Live by making what it calls the Windows Live Suite available for a download.

Microsoft Unleashes Windows Live Software

As part of its three-pronged quest for worldwide Internet domination—via MSN, Live Search, and Windows Live—Microsoft has unleashed a bundled download of its installed desktop Live software: Mail, Photo Gallery, Writer, and OneCare Family Safety. Also included is a slightly redesigned version 8.5 of Messenger, which intimately ties in with the rest of the suite; for example, starting up when you run Mail.

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