Chris Jones, the Corporate Vice President for Windows Live, recently launched a new engineering blog called Inside Windows Live. The new blog provides a place for engineers and others who work on Windows Live to share insight into what it takes to build and maintain the Windows Live products and services, how they’re distributed and used worldwide, as well as some of the reasoning behind how and why we’ve built things in particular ways.

Original article: An engineering blog for Windows Live

If you use Windows Live™ Messenger at home, work, or school, and if you’ve ever wondered how great it would be to instant message with friends and colleagues even when you’re away from your PC, there’s good news. Messenger is now available on most mobile devices, and can be activated or downloaded for free* from Microsoft. Messenger for mobile is easy to use and similar to Messenger on your PC. You can quickly log-in, see who’s online, begin a conversation, and even send emoticons, pictures, and files.

Original article: How to get Windows Live Messenger on your mobile phone

Did you know that you can do mail faster and easier with features that Hotmail recently added to allow for more productivity with e-mail? Here are seven ways to be more productive that were added in recent months: (1) Auto-complete. Hotmail auto-completes as you type e-mail addresses in the “To:” line when you’re composing a new message.

Original article: Be more productive with Hotmail in 2010!

There’s a lot of free storage for people using Windows Live these days.  In Dallas, TX, there is a Hotmail user named Ryan who uses 23GB of e-mail storage, for free.  There’s Martin in Germany, who uses 21GB, and Yara in Brazil, who uses 19GB for free.  And, as these users and the millions more like them who continue to use e-mail to share photos and communicate with friends need more space, Windows Live keeps giving them all they need. Free.

Original article: Lots and lots of storage

It’s the time to year to make—and keep—resolutions. But rather than saving the world or sticking to an impossible diet, we suggest practical stuff. Like getting organized. Staying in touch. Doing everyday tasks just a little bit faster. Little things like these can add up to big changes. Who knows, maybe 2010 will be the year you finally accomplish that big goal, or become the outstanding friend/kid/partner/date/employee you always wanted to be. The world awaits your glorious transformation!

Original article: Resolve to get organized in 2010

It came to our attention late last week that a change was made on YouTube.com resulting in a failure to publish movies directly from Windows Live Movie Maker.  The change was minor and behind-the-scenes, but unfortunately it did affect Movie Maker and the way it authenticates with the YouTube service for a set of our users.  This change wasn’t specific to Movie Maker – some other applications and websites that connect to YouTube were also affected.

Original article: Movie Maker: YouTube publishing issue now resolved

This year instead of sending out greeting cards or form letters typical of the holiday season, tell the story of 2009 in pictures and videos by sending a Video Holiday Card made with Windows Live Movie Maker! In this post, we’ll give you the step by step instructions to make fun video holiday cards using those photos and videos you captured in 2009. As an added bonus, the Windows Live Movie Maker team is giving you a holiday theme package that includes music and title slides to spruce up your video cards. Let’s get started!

Original article: Season’s Greetings!! : Video Holiday cards using Movie Maker

In September, we announced the Tech Preview of the Office Web Apps on Windows Live. As you may know, the Office Web Apps on Windows Live are free online companions to applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint that let you access, edit and share Microsoft Office documents from virtually anywhere.

Original article: New Office 2010 beta works with Windows Live

Beginning today, Windows Live is rolling out 19 new web activity partnerships with leading global and regional web companies – including YouTube and Break.com.

Original article: YouTube and 18 more new partners make it easy to share with friends on Windows Live

I’m Cheryl White and I’m a Program Manager for Windows Live Movie Maker. I’m here to say again how much we appreciate getting your feedback – it helps us to build a better product. Also, I’d like to talk more specifically about how users helped us shape the latest release of Windows Live Movie Maker. We’ve heard many questions about why we didn’t go with a traditional timeline model in the new Movie Maker.

Original article: Windows Live Movie Maker – what changed in the new version, and why