Windows Live Essentials is a group of free and useful applications by Microsoft for Windows platform.

It contains Windows Live Family Safety, Live Mail, Live Mesh, Messenger, Messenger Companion, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and
Windows Live Writer.

Windows Live Family safety is a parental monitoring software which includes web filtering, activity monitoring etc.

Windows Live Mail is a successor of Outlook Express or Windows Mail with which you can access hotmail, yahoo mail plus, gmail or any mail server which supports POP or IMAP. It also has support sync with windows live contacts, news client, feed reader, e-calendar etc

Windows Live Mesh is a free internet based file synchronization tool and has features like sync up to 200 folders, sync to skydrive, remote desktop access etc

Windows Live Messenger is a popular instant messaging client

Windows Live Messenger companion is an add-on for Internet Explorer to share links to your friends via Windows Live ID.

Windows Movie Maker is a video creating and editing software by microsoft and has features like record from webcam, publish videos to youtube, facebook, flickr etc

Windows Live Photo Gallery is a photo editing and photo management software which has features like tagging, search, upload photos to flickr, facebook etc

Windows Live writer is a powerful blogging software which helps to publish content to famous blogging sites like windows live spaces, wordpress, blogger, livejournal, typepad etc

Windows Live Essentials is a really good suite which contains very useful applications for our day to day work and it is free too, download it today.