At the moment a lot of these online services create individual silos of data for example, I may have photos in flickr or Picasa, and I have mail in Hotmail and Gmail. The software giant has noticed that people are using online services for a lot of different tasks. The company also described its broader vision for the Windows Live software, giving an indication of how it will evolve in the future and underscoring its importance for Windows as a whole. Versions of most of these are already shipping, and at PDC Microsoft demonstrated some features of new versions that are currently in beta. The specific apps in Windows Live Essentials are: Vendors will be able to preinstall Windows Live Essentials to create a complete user experience.
There's the Windows 7 Core OS, the Windows Live applications (bundled together as "Windows Live Essentials"), and the Windows Live Services (Hotmail, Spaces, etc.). Two, the company wants to be able to release and update these programs without having to tie their timelines to those of the base platform.Īs such, there are now three parts to the platform.
One, Microsoft wants to end the confusion that occurs with Vista and XP, where someone may have Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Windows Live Messenger installed simultaneously. Instead, these apps would be provided separately, under the Windows Live branding. One of the things we've known about Windows 7 for a few weeks is that it would contain fewer bundled applications than Vista did.
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