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Does not work. If you have signed up for Skydrive, one of the coolest feature is drag and drop.

To use drag and drop, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to Windows Live SkyDrive Beta with your Windows Live ID (The user name and password that you use to sign in to any Windows Live, MSN, or Office Live sites and services. If you have a Passport Network, Hotmail, or Messenger account, you can use it as your Windows Live ID.) .
2. Navigate to the folder that you want to add files to.
3. Click Add files.
4. Near the bottom of the page, click Install this upload tool.
5. If you see a yellow bar at the top of your browser, click it, click Install ActiveX Control, and then click Install.
6. On your computer, navigate to the location of the file that you want to add.
7. Select your file, and then drag it to the Drag files here to upload them box.
8. Click Upload.

Notes

• To install the ActiveX control, your operating system must have Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.
• To install the ActiveX control, your browser must be Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, or later.
• You can upload multiple files at once.

This morning, I launched firefox to upload files and at the same time test this drag and drop feature. It just does not give you an option to drag and drop.

Drag and drop does not work with firefox.

You will have to use internet explorer to drag and drop your files onto your SkyDrive.

Images embedded from SkyDrive

A new beta program for “Messenger, Mail, and Writer” has just appeared on Microsoft Connect . This means that these three programs will be releasing into beta soon.

To participate in the beta, you need to answer a nomination survey. 21 questions to be precise. Questions range covers all 3 Windows Live products.

Some of the questions are listed here:

1. Are you able to read and write English? *

2. Using beta software can potentially expose you to bugs that may harm your computer, including data loss. Knowing this, do you still want to participate in the beta? *

*The minimum system requirements for this beta are as follows:

• Windows XP SP2 or Vista
• Internet Explorer 6 SP1 or higher
• 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor screen resolution of 800×600 or higher
• Processer speed of 233MHz or higher

3. Is your system able to meet these requirements? *

4. Do you read or subscribe to newsgroups? *

5. Do you read or subscribe to RSS feeds? *

6. Do you have a blog? *

7. If you have a blog, which, if any of the following blog services do you use? (check all that apply) *

Windows Live Spaces

Blogger

Community Server

dasBlog

LiveJournal

Moveable Type

Radio Userland

Sharepoint

TypePad

WordPress.com

WordPress

None of the above

They will notify after few weeks, if you can participate. Head over if Windows Live interests you, especially Windows Live Messenger, if you have seen the leaked build.

Windows Live beta signup

Update: They have been released here. Go Get them.

Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Messenger 8.5 and Windows Live Mail.

You don’t use Windows Live? Then you are missing on these Windows Live Features:

1. Windows Live Mail desktop has a “View by Conversation” option that groups an email and its replies together, something which Gmail users love. You can try this out for yourself in the most recent Windows Live Mail desktop beta by selecting the following option: View – Current View – View by Conversation Read the rest of this entry »

New version of WLW is out. Read…

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Close on the heels of Yahoo, Windows Live Hotmail Plus customers storage has been bumped up to 4GB. It is being rolled out in stages.

If you are an MSN Hotmail or Windows Live Hotmail free customer, your storage will not be affected by this change either.

If you’re a Hotmail Plus customer who has not yet opted into the Windows Live Hotmail beta your storage will not change.

Features for Windows Live(Hotmail) Mail Plus:

• 4GB inboxes from Spring 2007 *New*
• Attachments upto 20MB
• No advertisements (across several Windows Live services, including Mail, Mail desktop and Spaces)
• Microsoft Outlook access
• No disabling of your account due to inactivity
• Yearly cost remains at €19.99, expected £14.99 and $19.99 when launched in other regions

Do you have Windows Live(Hotmail) Mail Plus account?

Not to miss – Windows Mobile 6 and Push email. This applies even to free accounts as well!

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