User Manual
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Using Windows Live ID to Access Your Social Networks and Other Services
NOTE Interestingly, these options can be used to import contacts from
Outlook Express (Windows XP), Windows Contacts (Windows Vista), Windows
Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Gmail as well, as shown in Figure 1-10. Note
that in any of these cases, you will need to have exported your contacts into an
acceptable format rst.
FIgure 1-10: Hidden under the Outlook and Windows Live options are other import choices.
using WindoWs Live id to Access YouR
sociAL netWoRks And otheR seRvices
Once your Windows Live ID is properly congured, you can begin connecting it to the
other online services you’re already using.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably familiar with the fact that
there are very popular services online, most of which aren’t made by Microsoft. (I
know, it’s shocking.) In fact, you almost certainly use many of these services your-
self: Facebook or MySpace for social networking; Pandora for music; Hulu for online
TV shows; Flickr for photos; and many more.
There are literally dozens of valuable online services, but they all exist, in isola-
tion, separate from each other. Each requires its own username and password, and to
access content from each service, you need to manually visit each separately.
Don’t see your
e-mail provider
listed? Or maybe
you just want a
more seamless
way to import
contacts from your
current e-mail
provider. If so, visit
the Windows Live
TrueSwitch site
(
secure5.trueswitch
.com/winlive/
)
and fill out the
form. Voila!
This is, in my
humble opinion,
the coolest feature
Microsoft offers
in Windows Live
and indisputably
the single smartest
thing you can do in
order to later have
the best possible
experience with
Windows Phone.
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