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. One of the key tenets of the current, or "Wave 3," version of Windows Live is "keeping your life in sync." To this end, all of the Windows Live applications (in Windows Live Essentials) and services (in what is simply called Windows Live) integrate deeply with each other. In some cases they also integrate with an ever-growing collection of third party services as well.

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