SkyDrive has several updates, including a new timeline view of photos you have all across your SkyDrive.

Outlook.com is now live. There is much to like in the service, but a long way to catch up with GMail on feature set.

The Metro Microsoft Account version of the rebranded Windows Live ID is now live.

New SkyDrive logo breaks away from Microsoft’s Windows Live branding.

Some quiet updates on Windows Phone related to aspects of Twitter. Sign of things to come?

As part of the company’s efforts to dissolve the Windows Live branding, tweets sent from Windows Phone will now display as ‘via Microsoft’.

500 Million active users and phasing out of the Windows Live brand as Windows 8 is around the corner.

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the governing body for technical education in India as part of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development, has adopted Microsoft Live@edu as one solution amongst many such initiatives with IT majors and Industries.

Microsoft has released an update for the Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite.

Windows Live now allows you to connect to Google to keep contacts in sync. Is this is prepration for native support of Google services in WP7/W8?

Windows Live and Zune are on their way out to be replaced by Windows apps. Windows 8 will have just one consumer off-the-shelf version.

Now, this bit of news will be a bummer to you Live Mesh users out there who are taking advantage of device-to-device syncing: In the upcoming major SkyDrive update that we recently wrote about, Microsoft has no plans to implement this feature when SkyDrive swallows up Mesh. Here’s a comment from SkyDrive team member Mike [...]

Portugese blog GEMIND managed to snag some screenshots of an upcoming SkyDrive update that has both tiered, paid storage upgrades, as well as a blurb promoting proper SkyDrive clients for both Windows and OS X (in the same area where, visiting SkyDrive now will show a promotion for the new iPhone and Windows Phone clients.) There are going to be three paid tiers of SkyDrive that each offer additional storage on top of the 25GB that is available for free.

Screenshots of Office 15 and Windows Live Metro on Windows 8 ARM based tablets.

Microsoft and the ecosystem partners have started advertising for the holiday season hoping to sway some users to opt for their consumer ecosystem/