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Windows Live Messenger has a fresh new look, but it`s still got all the features you know and love.

Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based PCs an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full- color graphics, 3D animation, video and rich audio.

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3 is the new managed code programming model for Windows.

Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world.

Internet Explorer has been designed to view the broadest range of web pages and to provide certain features within the operating system, including Microsoft Update. During the heyday of the historic browser wars, Internet Explorer superseded Netscape

It allows a mobile device to be synchronized with either a desktop PC, or a server running FirstClass Collaboration Suite, Microsoft Exchange Server, PostPath Email and Collaboration Server, Kerio MailServer, Zimbra or Z-Push.

Protect, maintain, and manage your computer with Windows Live OneCare, the always-on PC-care service from Microsoft. Get continuous protection with Windows Live OneCare-virus and spyware scanning, firewalls, tune-ups, file backups and more.