Windows Live Essentials

Windows Live Essential is a collection of application that some Windows users might actually consider essential, and once you try them, you will find yourself using them on a daily basis. It is intended to integrate services provided by Microsoft with your operating system. It features a Hotmail manager, Silverlight, SkyDrive, a blog editor, Bing bar and more. You will be able, for example, to manage your Hotmail account from Outlook, as well online as offline, and to share and backup photos easily.

Windows Live Essential is really easy to install and is included in many small Windows applications, so if you still don't have it, this is your chance. This package was designed to make Windows services work as a whole, you won't even notice you are using several application. There is an application for each of your needs: backup and synchronization, parental control, blog publishing and more, can all be done with this pack of essentials.