Microsoft lastly is including integration having a wider variety of third-party social networks and content material to Windows Live.From Microsoft;s Web web page, exactly where there;s an April 21 interview with Brian Hall,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Basic Manager with the Windows Reside Buiness group:“We;re releasing an important update to Windows Reside that’s really about two things. First is that we’ve added 20 new third-party content material partners that you can integrate with Windows Reside, bringing the total number of third-party content material partners to more than 30.”(It sounds like that rollout is happening over the next week.)Secondly,
Office 2010 Professional, Microsoft is incorporating MySpace,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, hi5 and Tagged to its list of Live contact partners to ease invitaions between those sites and Windows Reside, as opposed to maintaining a different set of contacts on each web-site. And Microsoft is allowing Windows Live users to add updates into their news feeds from other social-networking sites like Facebook, SmugMug, Digg,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, metroFLOG (in Argentina), Hyves (Netherlands) and Arto (Denmark).In related news, Microsoft has rolled out to existing Hotmail users in a number of countries a new feature that allows them to send instant messages to their Windows Live Messenger contacts from inside Hotmail. (Microsoft advertises this as something users might want to do if they are working inside a browser on a PC or device exactly where IM isn;t already installed.)Back to today;s social-networking stuff. Ever since I upgraded to the latest wave of Windows Reside last fall,
Office 2007 Key, I;ve been wondering whether it was worth maintaining my separate Windows Reside space. It looked a lot like Facebook — except with no action and more spam. Almost none of my Windows Live contacts was doing anything other than joining one another;s networks. Maybe the addition of new partners will change that.