Windows live services provide wider spectrum of its services including web applications like Hotmail and SkyDrive, various desktop applications as Live Essentials and Mobile applications as one can have access to them on single sing up at Windows live. Windows live is 5th most popular website ranked by Alexa with 500 million users. Following are the tips to make maximum use of Windows live experience.

Linking Multiple Live IDs: In case you have multiple Live IDs for different usage you can access all of them from a single place by linking all of them to your primary ID, and from there you can “switch to” other IDs without signing out and check e-mail or shared photos of other IDs.

Importing Social Contacts: You can add all of your social media contacts to windows live including Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIN and Hi5 contact by clicking at Live homepage clicking Add people and selecting the network to be added to the people. However you would have to sign in to connect with other network.

Involve with Social Web Activities: Windows Live let you connected and updated with your friends, automatically. It let you to add upto 20 web services sharable on your network and to broadcast your updates from Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, Flickr, etc.

Employing SkyDrive as a Virtual Drive: Any free account holder with Windows Live ID can have 25 GB cloud storage free space on SkyDrive account.   It can also be used as virtual drive on desktop with the help of Gladinet.  It also provides Backup for files with the tools like Comodo Backup or Microsoft SyncToy.

Hotmail as service for Custom Domain: In case having a custom domain with the help of windows live hotmail account can be used for e-mail hosting services in same manner Gmail provide service with Google Apps. With an organization’s logo it can be used for upto 500 e-mail accounts.

This way you can use Windows live in five different ways for optimized use.