If you are a Windows user, you might find useful many tools provided by Windows Live services. Practically, you can interact with many Windows Live services at the desktop level through various applications. These services and applications promote the principle "Connect and share anywhere" (Windows Live).

From the webmaster point of view, all of the desktop based applications offered by Windows Live present a certain interest depending of the direction of usage. I have discovered that two of them, Windows Live Writer and Windows Live Mail could provide rapid solutions in case of blog development, respectively email accounts synchronization.

Windows Live Writer allows you to publish blog posts for different blogs, because it facilitate the integration of various blog services such as Blogger, WordPress, Windows Live Spaces, LiveJournal and more. Among the multiple advantages provided by Windows Live Writer are the live preview of your posts before publishing and the possibility to save a local draft after you create or edit the blog entries offline. If you are used to Microsoft Office suite, the process of creation of blog posts with rich content (photos, videos) and complex content formatting should be an easy task.

Windows Live Mail is a free email client that allows you to manage all of your email accounts from one place. Besides the powerful spam blocking features, this application offers the option of moving the messages received in Hotmail accounts to other mail inboxes or accounts driven by POP3 or IMAP email services. For example, if you want to move the email messages received into a Hotmail account to a Gmail inbox, after you setup the Windows Live Mail client to access Hotmail, respectively Gmail service, then you will be able to do this action by copying or moving the desired messages in your Gmail inbox predefined folder.

In conclusion, Windows Live provides access to many free web resources that could represent the most appropriate solutions to quickly solve different urgent web development or communications problems.