14 DAY TRIAL // The user is at the center of the Windows Live team’s concern and their goal is to keep building exciting new experiences as well as teaming up with the right partners, for the customers’ satisfaction.
Today, the Windows Live team announces its newest partner – LinkedIn.
LinkedIn has over 75 million members in over 200 countries and the numbers are continuously growing, making LinkedIn a leader in professional social networking.
Windows Live along with LinkedIn, focused on four important areas: organizing your Hotmail, Messenger and Windows Live contact lists, keeping up to date with your LinkedIn contacts through Messenger, sharing contact updates from Messenger to LinkedIn and letting your Messenger friends keep up with your activity on LinkedIn.
Today, over half of the users are on two or more social networks and, in an ideal world, you would have the social networks linked and the contact lists organized.
It is not a simple task to avoid having the same duplicate records for the one person, mixed with friend details from two other networks and now with professional data from LinkedIn.
This is why when you will connect LinkedIn with Windows Live, you will also have a combined set of information, so that you can compose, if you want, an email to your LinkedIn contacts from your Hotmail account.
This integration is not for emails only, so you can have your LinkedIn contacts available through Windows Live, even in Photo Gallery.
The second thing facilitated by the LinkedIn integration is the advantage of using Messenger and getting updates from your LinkedIn contacts.
To put it simpler, you have the choice of making any LinkedIn contact a favorite, just like you would do with friends from Messenger, Facebook and MySpace, so that their updates are the first among the Messenger highlights.
This feature will also work on the iPhone as well, so you can stay connected, anywhere you go.
You will be able to use Messenger and all Windows Live and still have your LinkedIn contacts available, even if your contacts are not using Windows Live.
If you want your Windows Live activities to be shared on LinkedIn, you can update your status in Hotmail or Messenger.
You can even upload documents and photos for which you have set permission to Everyone or Friends for in SkyDrive, and have these updates posted to LinkedIn.
Obviously, the user is the only one who can set features he or she wants to connect.
Finally, not to neglect your Messenger friends, you can let them see what you are doing on LinkedIn, by choosing to have your activities shared with your friends on Messenger, even if they are not using LinkedIn just yet.
You can connect Messenger and your Windows Live profile to LinkedIn, as the LinkedIn features will start working on Hotmail, as of today, and within the next three weeks, it will work in whatever place LinkedIn is available.
Watch the video of Brandon Duncan from LinkedIn talking about the partnership with Windows Live: