Microsoft adds Facebook-like qualities to Windows Live
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xMicrosoft aims to turn its Windows Live portal into something more like a social-networking site with features it will add to the next major update of its online services and applications.
To provide the new "activities" feature, Microsoft has partnered with popular third-party Web sites to link their applications with Windows Live, including Flickr, iLike, LinkedIn, Yelp, Flixster, Pandora, Twitter, Photobucket, and Tripit.
Jones provided an example to show how the activity notifications will be shared across third-party applications. If a Windows Live user posts new images to the Flickr photo-sharing site, their "friends" will be notified when they send that Windows Live user an e-mail, he said.