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Now you can keep colleagues and contacts updated alongside friends and relations. The final version takes a business spin, adding support for LinkedIn, making the business social network part of your desktop. With support for Yahoo! IM and Facebook Chat, it's also a useful cross network tool, reducing the number of applications you need to install. There's a lot to be said for a quick at a glance view of status updates from Facebook, and Live Messenger does a much better job of showing what's going on with your friends than tools like Digsby or Trillian. Live Messenger's new user interface takes some getting used to, especially if you use the new social network view. With the popular Xmarks browser sync tool shutting down in January 2011, Live Mesh will be the best way for Internet Explorer users to keep bookmarks in sync between all their desktops, laptops and netbooks. We still miss the original Mesh's colour-coded folders, but there's no sign of them returning.ДЄs well as syncing files, Live Mesh will synchronise Office settings (including styles, templates and email signatures) and Internet Explorer favourites. There are still some inconsistencies, for one thing Microsoft describes Live Mesh's storage as being part of the larger Live SkyDrive, but there's no way of passing files between Mesh's cloud and the rest of SkyDrive, and there's no support for Office Web Apps if you want to quickly edit a synced file on the go. Most users use less, but there was a vocal campaign by unsatisfied users of the original Live Mesh which resulted in the increase. There's also an increase in the online storage capacity, from the beta Live Sync's 2GB to what was the original Live Mesh 5GB.

The biggest change is to Live Sync, which reverts to its original name of Live Mesh and gains more diagnostic information around synchronisation status.

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Applications like the Windows Live Writer blogging tool and the Family Safety security application stay the same, as do Live Photo Gallery and Live Movie Maker.

That means no change to the user interface, and a lot of bug fixes. So what's new? Much of what's in the final version was in the beta, something we've come to expect from the modern Microsoft.

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It happily installs over the beta, so you don't need to remove any old versions before getting the release code running. We've already looked at the beta and the beta refresh, and if you've used either of them (especially the recent beta refresh), then you'll find very little new in the final release. Bringing together various tools that used to be bundled with Windows, or labeled as PowerToys, the Live Essentials package is Microsoft's answer to Apple's iLife and the Google Pack.

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Microsoft has released the new version of its Windows Live Essentials software bundle, after a short beta period.

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