Kevin pointed out that he’d found the new updated Windows Live services have been launched along with a new refreshed home page. I’d noticed the new look Hotmail the other day when I logged in, but I was really impressed about the range of things that are on offer and will be coming up over at Live.
I’ve had my Hotmail account for almost 10 years now and, at I’ve signed up to new services as they’ve been released. I dump any service that I don’t find useful – some after a few weeks, others after months. So what do I still use?
Hotmail. I use this daily – I’ve got 2 non alpha numeric characters in my email address and I get 1 junk mail per month. I wish I’d had non alphabetic characters in my UK hotmail account as this gets “quite a bit” of spam. Shame I can’t rename it…
Live spaces. I talk about my home life, my chickens and my “hobbies” here as well as sharing photos with my family to reduce the amount of email flow backwards and forwards. Having a “home” blog allows me to separate my work and my home life and it stops my mother asking me tricky questions abut Exchange too 
Messenger. I use this in addition to using Office communicator with PIC to communicate with buddies. The messenger bot on my blog home page goes straight through to this too
Live Writer. Offline blogging. How the heck did I ever manage without it? Cutting and pasting with word just wasn’t the same – and now the ease of inserting images has made the whole blogosphere much more dynamic
Sky Drive. I’ve got loads of folders on here, some private, some shared, some public (to share documents after a Connecting Women in Technology event for example)
So what am I REALLY looking forward to?
Event homepages. About time too. That’s really useful for anyone who has a community and doesn’t have the knowledge to create an effective web presence – these updated services look like they’re going to give you exactly what you need.
So it’s certainly good news at least for the Colchester Chicken society…
