Welcome to the Live Connect Developer Center

Connect your websites, apps and devices to Hotmail, SkyDrive and Windows Live Messenger

Web developers

From SkyDrive document sharing to Messenger chat to Hotmail contacts and calendars, it's easy to let your users connect and engage. Enable single sign-on for users of Windows Developer Preview, Hotmail, and other compatible services.

Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps

The Live SDK is designed to make it even easier to use SkyDrive and other compatible services throughout your Metro style apps. In addition, on Windows Developer Preview you can get true zero-click single sign-on for your apps and your sites by using Live ID.

Mobile devices

The Live SDK is also available for Windows Phone. The Live Connect APIs use open standards like OAuth 2.0, JSON, and XMPP, making them easy and familiar to work with on other mobile platforms such as Android and iOS.

See who is using Live Connect

“After we implemented Connect, our users were able to sign-in with Windows Live as well as via HuffPost Social News. Our users now have the huge Windows Live community readily accessible to them.”

- Paul Berry, Chief Technology Officer, AOL Huffington Post Media Group

		“Users share their blog posts with their Messenger friends to increase distribution of their content.”

		“Provides social tools that enable users to login to sites with their Microsoft, Facebook, or other social network accounts”

		“Builds tools for websites that enables users to sign-in with their Microsoft accounts.”

		“Leverages the identity of users with Microsoft accounts to speed up sign-in and registration. “