Live Services provide an easy on-ramp for developers to connect their apps, experiences, and customers to over 500 Million Windows Live Users. Let users log in using Live ID, access and share contacts, feed content into Windows Live, instant message with Windows Live Messenger and use many other great Live Services and technologies to reach people no matter where they are, online or offline.
- Do you or your customers have content to share with others?
- Do you have users who want to share and communicate with friends?
- Do you want to connect people with instant messaging and let them share their social contacts?
Live Services can help you integrate these scenarios into your applications.
The available services currently available to tap into include:
Windows Live Messenger
Tap into the engaged and highly connected audience of over 320M Windows Live users by bringing the power of Windows Live Messenger to your application.
Contacts
Contacts allows Windows Live users to sign in to Windows Live from your site and transfer their contacts data. You have a choice of the "pre-built" Contacts Controls or the totally customizable RESTful API to allow people to use their Windows Live contact information with your site.
Windows Live ID
Windows Live ID is the identity and authentication system provided by Windows Live. Currently, more than 460 million users have credentials that work with Windows Live ID. Three software development kits (SDKs) now make it possible for developers like you to use this powerful service
Live Framework
(Update: As of September 8th, the Live Framework CTP will be unavailable. Please see this blog post.)
The Live Framework is the uniform way for programming Live Services
from a variety of platforms, programming languages, applications and
devices. Build applications that consume and combine Live Services data
that span across digital devices and the web.
After checking out the individual offerings above, why not go deep and start writing code? Here are some resources to get you started: