The improved Windows Live generation

Microsoft 's "Live" online service platform has been upgraded to a new generation with many changes to all sub services and launches Live Photos, announced Live Search API .

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The function automatically changes the background color according to the main color tone of the image when performing
The slideshow is a new unique feature from Windows Live Photos

Widely published Live Search API

Developers or users have been able to embed the Live Search search engine into their website easily thanks to the Live Search API that Microsoft just announced. The Silkroad Project is an API ( Application Programming Interface ) for Live Search, supporting many open technologies and Web portals used to build websites like RSS, JSON ( JavaScript Object Notation ), REST ( Representational State Transfer ) and XML ( Extensible Markup Language ).

Microsoft introduced with support for how to use the API, there is no limit to the number of queries and users or programmers can rate content by option. Developers can exploit search for images, news, phone books . Another special factor is that when exploiting Silkroad API, users can refuse ads appearing on the website. but if accepted, the profit will be divided according to the standards set by Microsoft.

Windows Live Photos joins "Live" them

Windows Live Photos is an online photo hosting service that includes sharing and image management features similar to Yahoo's Flickr. However, Live Photos can interact quite well with the Windows Live Gallery application on the desktop to upload photos to the archive.

The unique feature of Live Photos is the function to change the background color of the image according to the main color tone of the image when performing a slideshow. Similar to Flickr, users have many options for images such as image viewing permissions, tags to group photos, and storage capacity really overwhelms users: 25GB. In fact, this capacity is shared from SkyDrive storage service is also a sub-service of the Live family but Microsoft has just upgraded the capacity up to 25GB.

If you are using Windows Live Gallery on the desktop, you can interact with Live Photos like downloading images directly to Live Gallery or downloading with compressed * .zip file format and even when you want to download entire albums and photos It's also easy on Live Photos to Live Gallery (currently this feature is only supported in Denmark, USA and Ireland).

SkyDrive development team recommends that users use Microsoft Silverlight to better exploit the functions of Live Photos.

"They" Live stepped into the next generation

Upgraded upgrades start from the Live Services home page interface, email information (Windows Live Mail, Hotmail), updated news (What's New), and specific social networks (Spaces) more after login. Furthermore, users can update their friends' activities on other third-party services such as Flickr, StumbleUpon, Photobucket, and iLike in the What's New section.

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The current interface and the new interface of Windows Live

Services in the "Live" family also began to "get along" more closely. Data in Calendar and Groups can be integrated into email or instant messaging (IM).

Microsoft also officially released the Windows Live Essentials toolkit as a response to the Google Apps toolkit after 2 years of testing. Windows Live Essentials include Mail, Writer, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Messenger, Toolbar and Family Safety. Tools in Live Essentials can connect to Windows Live on the Internet.

In the near future, Microsoft also plans to put more entertainment on "Live" to prepare for the Xbox Live service that is expected by gamers. Information is still not announced specifically. Users can refer to the Windows Live upgrade at Brian Hall's blog, the head of the Windows Live business team.

The following are pictures of newly updated functions for Live services:

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Exchange or update your friends' latest information via Windows Live Messenger

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Sort images by tag, very easy to manage in Windows Live Photo Gallery

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Hotmail allows embedding images and other information from a search directly into the email

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Writer allows embedding images when blogging

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The Windows Live Toolbar provides quick updates on those
New information of friends in your own network.