Windows Live SkyDrive, the online storage service of Microsoft, has left beta status today and is now available for users in 38 countries including the United States, Canada and Great Britain. The limit of 500 Megabytes per user account has been raised to a maximum of 5 Gigabytes which comes closer to services like Aol Xdrive and even Google Gmail.
Get a @live.com email
Email collectors behold ! Microsoft is finally making @live.com IDs available to the public. The whole signup process is heavily interactive and Ajax like elements pop up all the time giving information and links to further information.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery made a big leap forward with the release of the newest beta version 2.2. The greatest enhancement over previous Live Photo Gallery versions is the ability to publish pictures directly on Flickr with a stamp of approval from Flickr. Another aspect will please many users. Before this beta users had to install Windows Desktop Search to work with it which is no longer needed for Windows XP users.
Enable Mail Filtering in Windows Live Mail Desktop
Enigma, a regular visitor of my blog, asked if there was a way to stop pdf spam from appearing in his Windows Live Mail Desktop software. I decided to investigate the matter and take a look at it. Windows Live Mail Desktop is basically a mail client like Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook integrating with several other Microsoft applications such as Windows Live Messenger or Live Spaces.
Windows Live Folders Beta not so Live after all
Microsoft is jumping on the “online storage” train and it was unofficially announced that their so called Windows Live Folders service is going into public beta. This online storage services provides its users 500 megabytes of space that they can use to store or share data online. Files can be uploaded with Internet Explorer and Firefox which surprises me a little bit. Well, the service was first mentioned to go public at the Liveside blog creating a big run for an account which had the result that the Live Folders website was not available anymore.
