Windows Live Account is a new control panel for your Windows Live ID (AKA Passport) account. Change your settings and get help for your Windows Live ID Account. You can manage family accounts as well - which looks to be like an excellent feature! You can now go to account.live.com and sign-in to Windows Live Account.

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As Microsoft continues to move many of it's MSN features to it's new Windows Live site, Windows Live Toolbar Beta has been released. The Windows Live Toolbar seems to be the new MSN toolbar - tabbed browsing, phishing filter, popup blocker - but with some new Windows Live features added in, like online favorites, auto-detection of RSS feeds, and feeding of those RSS feeds straight to your live.com homepage.
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system
Full list of features:
• Search from any Web page
• See a warning when a site may be trying to scam your personal info
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Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0683.00 has been released to a MSN/WLM Messenger blogger named Michael Sun. This new build, 8.0.0683.00_Branches contains the new UI, new icons, and now uses the Windows Live ID service.
Windows Live Messenger you can chat online via text, voice or even video conversation - in real time - with your friends, family or colleagues. It's faster than e-mail, a great choice for conversations and the perfect alternative when you can't be there in person.

Updates:
- The welcome interface changes to its first version.
- Main content screen. - The chat window also is totaly re-designed. ... Downloa ... more

The Live Team has finally launched its new Academic search facility.
Essentially this service searches books and articles for text that allows students to hunt down the right book or allows tutors to find out which students plaguerized from what book.
Also worthy of note; The Windows Live logo is used even though its beta, the same can not be said for the rest of the Live services.
The Live Team

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The Windows Live Custom Domains Beta SDK is intended for customers and partners who want to programmatically accomplish many of the administration tasks that are available on the Windows Live Custom Domains Web site in addition to tasks that are not available on the Web site, such as importing and exporting user lists. The SDK uses the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) remote procedure call (RPC) 1.1 standard for communication between client applications and the Web servers for Windows Live Custom Domains.
The SDK consists of the following:
1. A command-line application and code samples (in Microsoft Visual Studio C#).
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Microsoft has silently enabled access to the latest Windows Live Messenger Beta for all passports. This means that from now on you won't need an invitation in order to be able to log in. We expect the MSN pages to soon reflect this news and market the WLM Beta to all of their visitors worldwide.
Downloads:
Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.0.0566 English
Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.0.0566 Dutch
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The new Windows LiveTM Messenger Beta is the next-generation MSN Messenger and, as always, it is free to download.
It has everything you already love about Messenger – your contact list, emoticons, and plenty of ways to access to your friends via text, voice and video – plus new ways to connect and share documents with magical ease.When you move to the new Windows Live Messenger, it will be like upgrading from one MSN Messenger version to the next. All your contacts will move with you, as will all your personalised elements (emoticons, winks, user tiles, themes, etc…).

What is Windows Live?
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Expo is an online social marketplace where you can exchange goods, ideas or information with anyone you choose, anywhere you want. And it just might change your idea of what an online community can be.
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