Microsoft Begins The Migration Process From Windows Live Messenger To Skype

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Microsoft has begun the shifting process from Windows Live Messenger to Skype on April 8. Microsoft plans to unify all of its messaging services and this is part of the project. You will no longer have the services of your Windows Live Messenger after this month. The services of Windows Live Technical support will also cease after this month. To make the transition process smooth, Microsoft recently enabled the option that allows you to connect to Windows Live Messenger from your Skype account. You can avail this option in all versions of Windows, Linux, iOS, Windows phone, OS X etc.

What happens to other Windows Live Messenger versions?

According to Microsoft, “the Mac, iPhone, Windows tablet 8, Windows Phone 8 and Android can already update Skype and identify with their Microsoft account. The connections made by third parties disappear later and we briefed our partners to prevent their users.” That is, Microsoft utilizes two protocols namely Messenger Mobile Service Proxy or MSP and XMPP for various connections to Live Messenger. Other customer types like Trillian, Pidgin or Adium comprise interoperability with the assistance of Windows Live Messenger through the XMPP protocol.

However, Microsoft Gold stopped this during October 2013. In other words, you will no longer find programs, which offer free Windows Live Messenger with the help of this protocol after this date. However, Microsoft has not yet publicized the exact date. Mentioning the other Official Messenger applications that you find on Microsoft’s Xbox and Windows Phone will stop to function by the end of March 2014.

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How do I find my contacts in the new Skype account?

Keep in mind that when your Windows Live Messenger account is transferred to your new Skype account, there will be two connection methods. This is because both your accounts with pseudonyms are still working. Therefore, your contact list will no longer be the same. You still have the options to find your contacts from your Skype account. This will show only the contacts that you have added previously.

However, this will still enable you to classify your contacts according to the connection status. Another option available for you is to link your Microsoft account. This will enable you to find the contacts in both your Skype as well as your Windows Live Messenger. The contacts of Windows Live Messenger can be found in the ‘Messenger’ section.

If you still have doubts about the whole migration process, contact Windows Live Technical support for further assistance.

Configuring Your Email Account In Windows Live Mail

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Windows Live Mail is an email client application that comes inbuilt with Windows operating systems. Microsoft has included all the critical features in this application for providing a pleasant email management experience to its users. It supports almost all popular email service providers like Gmail, Yahoomail, Hotmail etc. If you want to access your email accounts through Windows Live Mail, you first need to configure it properly. The steps for configuring the same is not at all complicated, and is as easy as you can get. This article has step-by-step instructions for adding your email account to Windows Live Mail.

Windows Live support instructions

• First, launch your Live Mail application. To do this, click on “Start”, Select “All Programs” from the start menu, and click on “Windows Live Mail”.
• Ensure that the advanced options menu is available.
• Click on the option labeled “Tools” from the main menu of Windows Live Messenger.
• Select the option “Accounts” from the tools menu.
• Hit the button labeled “Add”.
• Continue with this procedure by clicking on “Email Account”, and then hit the “Next” button.
• Type your email address in the “Email Address” field. You need to type the full email address, like “username@emailserviceprovicer.com”.
• Input your email account password in the “Password” field.
•  In the “Display Name” field, type the name you would like other to see when they receive your email messages.
• Mark the check box labeled “Manually configure server settings for email account”. Hit the “Next” button.
• In the resulting screen, fill the following details

1. My Incoming mail server is a: POP3/IMAP
2. Incoming server: Incoming server address of your email service provider
3. Port: Incoming port number of your email service provider
   

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4. Log on using: Authentication method
5. Login ID: Your full email address
6. Outgoing server: Outgoing server address of your email service provider
7. Port: Outgoing port number of your email service provider

• Unmark the check box titled “This server requires a secure connection”.
• Mark the check box labeled “My outgoing server requires a authentication”.
• Hit the “Next” button to move to the next page.
• Finally end this procedure by clicking on the button labeled “Finish”.

Those were the simple steps to add your email account to Windows Live Mail. Hope you got it right. If you need further assistance, contact Windows Live Support team through online.

Microsoft Begins The Migration Process Of Windows Live Messenger Users To Skype

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April 8, 2013 will start witnessing the migration of Windows Live Messenger users to Skype as part of Microsoft’s unification process of its instant messaging applications. The whole migration process will end by April 30. Millions of Windows Live messenger users around the world will be transferred to the new Skype account. With the migration process advancing, more and more users and customers are contacting Windows Live chat support to understand the process of migration.

Microsoft has been notifying the Messenger users about the migration process and customers have already received several emails and messages in this regard. According to these email messages, the whole transfer process is quite simple. All you need to do is to download Skype program to your computer and log in to the program using your old Messenger username and password. Microsoft has also made the uninstallation process of Windows Live Messenger easy. Just click on the upgrade button in your Live Messenger and this will uninstall Live Messenger from your computer.

Microsoft provided users the option to check and evaluate the whole migration process. This began on last January. However, initially the migrated users confronted many troubles with the Skype account. Some of the major issues were related to contacts and users were unable to find some of their contacts in Skype.

However, Microsoft released several updates over the months to resolve these issues. Microsoft has been successful in resolving the troubles with no major troubles coming up, and most of the users are satisfied with the new Skype account. Initially the users in United States and other English speaking countries will be migrated. The second phase of migration will focus on other countries and the

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whole process will end by April 30.

Still, many customers make use of the various applications and services in the Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 or Windows RT devices. We are not yet clear when these services will end. Microsoft says, they will assist Skype in infrastructure and further activities in connection with the migration that can help new users.

Even though Microsoft is in the process of migration of its Windows Live messenger users, it does not plan to end the services of Lync products. Reports are also out that Microsoft is planning to update Lync by next year. If you have any further doubts regarding the migration process, contact Windows Live chat support for further help.

Easy Steps To Render Movies In Windows Live Movie Maker

Rendering movies in Windows Live Movie Maker

Have you ever wondered how your friends made those cool videos in  Windows Movie Maker? Do you think that it’s possible for you too? Windows Live Movie Maker is a quite simple to use software which helps you to create videos using photos, audio files and other small video clippings.

Windows Live Help Instructions

• Navigate to ‘Start’ button and then choose ‘All programs’. From the list, choose ‘Windows Live Movie Maker’.
• Choose ‘Add Videos and Photos’. Browse video clips and photo images. Select the file name and hit on ‘Open’.
• You can insert as many photos and video clips as you want by hitting the ‘browse’ button and then ‘add videos and photos’.
• Select  ‘Webcam video’ to import the files into movie.
• You can add audio files by hitting ‘Add music’. Locate any MP3 or WMA audio files. Click on the particular audio file and the hit ‘Open’.
• Make the movie title as per the content of your video. Make it more descriptive and suitable. You can also customize the title with different size, fond and color. Select the   title ‘My Movie’(default name) and change the name.
•  Use the ‘Animation’ option to bring in animated transition for your movie. Locate the curser between movie clips on movie timeline or two photos and choose the particular transition type to apply it. Choose the option ‘Apply to all’to bring the effect of the transition for the whole movie.
  

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• To make changes in the color or brightness of a photos or clips, choose the Option ‘Visual Effects’.
• If you want to upload the movie to internet, click on the website icon. Highlight a resolution setting. The chosen resolution will be adopted by Windows Movie Maker to render the movie. After signing into your Windows Live account, type a suitable name for the movie in the specific box given. Proceed with the prompts to render the movie and then upload it to the website.
• Now save the movie by clicking on the option ‘Save Movie’. In the file name field, type the file name and then  choose the option ‘Save’. Default settings will be adopted by Windows Movie Maker to render and save the movie. You can also change the rendering settings by selecting the drop-down box below the ‘Save Movie’ option. Highlight the bit-rate, audio settings and resolution as per your choice for the movie.

Hope the instructions were useful for you. Once you are done with your video clip, you can convert it into any Windows Compatible movie format so that it can be played on your computer or shared on the internet. If you have any further confusions, visit the webpage of Windows Live Help.

No More Windows Live Messenger

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Microsoft shutdown its Windows Live Messenger service on 15^th March 2013.  After the acquisition of Skype, having another messenger service seemed illogical. It was a simple case of migrating to Skype’s superior software and Microsoft got all its user ids to be henceforth known as the SkypeID. So if you are a Windows Live user, you must better upgrade to Skype since most of the older versions of the Live messenger won’t be functioning properly.

Your attempts to sign into the Live messenger will result in a popup window asking you to download Skype and uninstall Windows Live messenger from your computer. You will not be able to chat on Windows Live Messenger through other applications like, Trillain or Pidgin. Changing the client to use Skype in these applications will end in failure as the Skype plug-in for pidgin allows you to chat with your Skype friends only if your Skype is active and running in the background. Whereas in Trillian, support for Skype is a bit more appreciated, but it still requires you to have Skype installed on your computer. It currently fails to connect because of the changes made to the Skype protocol. You can get the details regarding the same from Windows Live chat support team.

How to go about migrating to Skype?

You need to change to Skype if you wish to use your current Windows Live Messenger account and chat with your contacts. There are two ways to migrate to Skype. This depends on whether you already have a Skype account or not.

First, you need to make sure that you have the Skype installed in your computer is up-to-date. If in case you do not have Skype, download it from the official website and install it on your computer. To update, click on the option labeled “Help” from the main menu, and select the option “Check for updates”.

Double click on the respective icon to launch Skype. In the login screen, click on the option labeled “Sign in with a Microsoft account”.

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Provide the username and password of your Microsoft account/Windows Live ID.  You will be getting a screen asking you whether you already have Skype account or not. If you do not have one, click on the button labeled “I’m new to Skype”. Doing the same will link your Microsoft account with a new Skype account. Regardless of what option you select, all you Windows Live contacts will appear on your Skype contacts list.

To conclude, Skype is a good instant messaging application that already has millions of satisfied users. So this change will only do good for Live Messenger users. You can contact Windows Live chat support team to learn more about Migrating to Skype.