The Microsoft Skydrive Team just announced new updates to Skydrive today!

Arrange your photos

Now you can arrange the photos in your albums in the order you want them to appear by clicking Sort by, and selecting Arrange photos.

If you have Silverlight, you can arrange your photos by simply dragging them into the order you want. You can also sort your photos and files by name, size, date, or type. Now you can arrange the photos in your albums and slide shows and tell stories the way you want to tell them!

View photos of yourself and your friends

Coming soon when you visit your friends’ profiles you can view photos they’re tagged in by selecting “Photos of <your friend’s name>” from the menu under their profile picture.  You’ll see this entry point in a few days!

Support for Windows Live Favorites
As you already know, you can keep your favorites in sync between computers using SkyDrive and the Windows Live Toolbar. Now, the next time you visit your favorites on Windows Live, your existing favorites will automatically move to SkyDrive. You can check it out here: http://favorites.live.com

As always, let us know what you think. Your feedback helps us decide what we do next!

In late 2008, Microsoft shipped the first version of its Windows Live application suite, which is now branded as Windows Live Essentials. That name is deliberate: Microsoft sees Windows Live Essentials as an essential piece of Windows 7, and one that all users should download and install in order to receive the "full" Windows 7 experience. I concur with this opinion: Windows Live Essentials is one of the very first things I install after installing the base OS. And because Essentials includes many applications that were formerly part of Windows, it makes sense to simply treat it as part of Windows, albeit one that will be updated more frequently than much of the OS.

Windows Live Essentials is a suite of Windows applications that "completes" or "light up" the Windows experience by adding a surprisingly rich set of functionality to the base OS. It consists of a single installer, from which you can pick and choose the individual applications you’d wish to install.

While few users will want to install every single application in Windows Live Essentials, every single Windows 7 user should install the suite and pick and choose which applications they will want. Most are of incredibly high quality and a few–like Windows Live Photo Gallery–simply shouldn’t be missed. I don’t agree with the antitrust regulations that require Microsoft to strip some of these applications from Windows, but the result is certainly a boon to Windows users: A set of high-quality, best-of-breed applications that are available to Windows 7 users for free. If you’re using Windows 7–or any other modern Windows version for that matter–your PC isn’t complete until you’ve installed Windows Live Essentials.

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I love these new ads. Looking at the number of consumers at the recent IT Show who walked away with netbooks, you know the market is now very much focused on low cost, efficient, light weight machines. It is really hard to consider coughing up $4k to $5k for a laptop in this current economic climate, no matter how much you like a particular logo

I wish there is some way I can participate in this ad campaign…I know it is just an ad but imagine; You find it, you keep it! That just starts my mind wondering…

Laptop Hunters #2 - Giampaolo

Laptop Hunters #1 - Lauren

Microsoft Singapore demonstrates what Life without Walls is all about on Razor TV. With the pervasiveness of netbooks and gaming consoles like the Xboxes in today’s homes, you can starting living tomorrow’s dream today! Cool stuff!