Connect with Windows Live

Over 500 million people love and use Windows Live services such as Messenger, SkyDrive, and Hotmail. Connect your site with them, their friends, and the things they care most about. We are currently in limited beta testing. Click below to request an invitation.

 

Build and Grow with Messenger Connect

Sign up & Sign in

Make it easy for people to use their Windows Live identity (including profile) to sign up or sign in to your Web site.

Real-time Shared Experiences

Increase engagement on your site by providing chat powered by Windows Live Messenger, right within your experience.

Contacts

Let people find and invite friends to your site. Friends invite friends, and their connections increase.

Activity Stream (Messenger Social)

Let users share what they do across  the Web with their friends. Activities appear in Messenger, Hotmail and across Windows Live.

Calendar and Photos

Become part of Windows Live users’ digital lives and let them share their calendars and photos with your site.

Building Your First Application

Web Application
Windows Application
Silverlight Web Application
Silverlight Apps

Tools to Help You Build

Windows Live SDK
Samples
Interactive SDK
Windows Live REST Explorer
Manage Your Applications

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Realtime Shared Experiences with Messenger Connect
Communication and sharing has emerged over the past few years as a critical element making experiences more personalized and compelling across the web. Lots of sharing is done asynchronously (via activ... more
Monday, Jun 28
Identity (authentication, profile & relationships)
There are over 500 million Windows Live IDs that are used every month. That is a lot of users who can sign into web sites. In addition to base level authentication you can also pre-fill registration fo... more
Monday, Jun 28
Developing with Messenger Connect: Recognizable & intuitive
The primary goal of Messenger Connect is to help web sites & apps grow their traffic and engagement, at a reasonable cost. To that end, the technical implementation and business terms have been designe... more
Monday, Jun 28

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