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Microsoft is enabling access to a broad set of Windows Live Services with a single, easy-to-understand pricing model based on the number of unique users (UUs) accessing your site or Web application.

What is the Windows Live Web Services Platform?

Read the high-level overview of the platform goals and how the tools are organized.

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See what others are doing: we’ve created a collection of mashups using Windows Live services. More are added every week.

Virtual Earth v5.0 SDK Now Available

Virtual Earth platform 5.0 continues to offer new tools, advanced feature enhancements, and robust platform capabilities. Try the Interactive SDK to see the changes in action.

Important News for Users of the Microsoft® SilverlightT Streaming by Windows LiveT Beta October 2009
Summary: Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Beta is being discontinued and will eventually be taken down A new Windows® AzureT-based hosting and delivery service will be launched by the... more

Announcing Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit V3.5: better UI, faster development, richer experience for non-Messenger users
We’ve been working hard on the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (MWT) which allows you to connect your web site to 330M+ people who use Windows Live Messenger every month! Today we’d like to announc... more

Engineering the Windows Live / MySpace integration and Leveraging Activity Streams
My name is Rob Dolin, I work as an engineer on the Windows Live Social team and I’m honored to have the opportunity to guest blog here at http://dev.live.com/ about one of our latest (and IMHO most ex... more

What do you want to see @ SXSW - vote it up!
Angus Logan here from the Live Services team, and I am starting to get pretty excited about the SXSW Conference coming up in March 2010. One of the great things about the conference is that you get to... more

Lessons learned from Windows Live ID's foray into Open ID
Yesterday the WLID guys shared some interesting stuff they learned from their OpenID CTP. CTPs are often used to get feedback from developers, validate ideas, and/or correct the course of an effort. S... more

Important Updates to Live Services
Hi Everyone, I wanted to give you some important updates on our developer services as we prepare for the next release of Windows Live. We are focused on making the next release of Windows Live the ve... more

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