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<P>When you want to get in touch with someone, where do you look? There are lots
of places that people store their contact data - the address book for their
email account, their Instant Message buddy list, Facebook, LinkedIn, their
phone…. When you find that person you want to reach out to, is their information
up to date? What about their email address? If they have more than one email
address, which do you use? Are they online? Maybe you should send them an SMS or
Facebook message.</P>
<P>My oh my, there are lots of ways to keep in touch!</P>
<P>Managing contacts just isn’t something people want to spend their time doing.
Well, maybe some people… but I gather most of you would like an address book
that is:</P>
<UL>
<LI><B>Up to date</B>
<LI>Reflective of <B>all the people you know</B> on all the <B>services you
use</B>
<LI>Available on <B>all the devices you use</B> (phone, PC, web) </LI></UL>
<P>In this release of Windows Live, we paid special attention to giving you
exactly that.</P>
<H3>Your one contact list is up to date</H3>
<P>Across Windows Live and many Microsoft services, we all share a common
address book. This information is stored centrally on our servers and available
to a number of Windows Live products like Hotmail and Messenger as well as other
Microsoft products like the upcoming Windows Phone, Outlook via the Hotmail
Connector, Windows Live Mail, and now any phone that supports the Exchange
Active Sync protocol like iPhone, Windows Mobile, and some Android and Nokia
devices.</P>
<P>You can access your contact list by visiting <A
href="wlmailhtml:{A9B22B6C-C985-49B5-9D80-5E37FB1CC592}mid://00000043/!x-usc:http://contacts.live.com/"
target=_blank>http://contacts.live.com</A> (note some of you will not see the
new experience until the Hotmail <A
href="wlmailhtml:{A9B22B6C-C985-49B5-9D80-5E37FB1CC592}mid://00000043/!x-usc:http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/06/29/update-to-the-hotmail-rollout.aspx"
target=_blank>rollout</A> is complete).</P>
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<P>Additionally, you have access to all these same contacts on Messenger.</P>
<P>For all your Messenger friends, we also make sure that any of the changes
they make to their contact information automatically go into your address book
so that your friends’ latest phone numbers, mailing addresses, and other contact
info is available to you anywhere.</P>
<H3>All your contacts across the services you use</H3>
<P>Not all of the people you know are going to be in your address book, though.
For example, I know a lot of people on Facebook and LinkedIn, but I don’t have
contact info for every one of them available in Windows Live. For this release,
we built a set of features that connects Windows Live to the social networks
that you use and keeps track of your entire list of contacts. When you connect a
service like Facebook, MySpace, and soon LinkedIn to Windows Live, all of your
contacts from those services will be available in Windows Live
automatically.</P>
<P>This means, for example, that you can easily send a message to a Facebook
user directly from Windows Live. </P>
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<P>Soon you’ll even be able to send your Facebook friends an instant message
from the Messenger program and on the web.</P>
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<P>In planning this work, one problem we immediately recognized was that a lot
of you have multiple connections with some of your contacts on Windows Live. For
example, I have my wife on Messenger, Facebook, and LinkedIn. What I don’t want
to see are three copies of my wife’s contact information in my address book.</P>
<P>To solve this problem, we automatically identify and recognize who all these
same people are across different networks and build a virtual Person view of
their data. We combine all the information we have about that person into a
single view and make it really easy to communicate with them on the different
networks they belong to.</P>
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<P>Additionally, we keep this information fresh by continuing to sync data from
your networks into Windows Live, ensuring that when information changes, you’ll
always have the latest info. Finally, we let you annotate any contact data that
comes in from a social network with your own information. For example, if you
want to get a birthday reminder for a Facebook friend’s birthday but they
haven’t included that information in their Facebook profile, you can add it in
Windows Live, and we’ll remind you of their birthday.</P>
<H3>Your contacts on the go</H3>
<P>Many of us now carry a smartphone like the iPhone, a Nokia device, or a
Windows Mobile phone (and hopefully soon, Windows Phones). All these devices can
soon synchronize your email, calendar, and contacts with Windows Live so that
you can take all your contacts on the go and access people’s phone numbers and
email addresses (requires the <A
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target=_blank>new version of Hotmail</A>). Combined with a smart address book,
you never have to worry about having stale information for your contacts.</P>
<P>As I mentioned earlier, you can also get your contacts as well as mail and
calendar in Outlook via the Outlook Hotmail Connector. This will get even better
today since we are <A
href="wlmailhtml:{A9B22B6C-C985-49B5-9D80-5E37FB1CC592}mid://00000043/!x-usc:http://blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/archive/2010/07/13/connect-to-facebook-and-windows-live-with-the-outlook-social-connector.aspx">announcing
a new plug-in for Outlook</A> that will let you also see social updates from
your Messenger friends (and your friends on other services connected to Windows
Live) right in your Outlook inbox.</P>
<P>If you don’t have Outlook, you can use our free Windows Live Mail program for
Windows to get contacts, mail, and calendar on your desktop.</P>
<H3>Importing your contacts from numerous services</H3>
<P>Windows Live lets you import or invite your contacts from numerous services.
It’s our desire and hope that if you want to move your contacts to our service,
it’s easy to do that. We support a number of popular services in different
markets.</P>
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<H3>All the people you know, in one place</H3>
<P>We worked hard on this release to make sure you had one easy place to view
and communicate with all your contacts on all your devices. We hope you find
these features useful and look forward to your feedback.</P>
<P>Omar Shahine <BR>Principal Lead Program Manager, Windows
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