8 Windows Essentials may have shed its Live branding but it is still a great starter pack of useful applications. Windows usually comes with a dearth of apps out of the box but Windows Essentials solves this problem. It's a big download but that's because it comes with Live Messenger, Photo Gallery, SkyDrive, Live Mail, Live Writer, and Movie Maker. Let's take a deeper look at each program. Windows Live Messenger hasn't seen much changed. There's tabbed browsing, / integration, and the ability to log chats.

The interface is almost exactly the same as Windows Live Messenger 2011. We would have liked to have seen some more changes to make Windows Live Messenger relevant in this crowded space. See our full review of Windows Live Messenger 2012. Photo Gallery Photo Gallery and Movie Maker are the highlights of Windows Essentials as they received the biggest overhaul. Both programs are now designed for Windows 8 in mind and feature the Microsoft ribbon interface. You can now tag people in photos in bulk. There's still great social network integration for quick, seamless sharing.

There is also a new ' auto collage' feature which blends photos you choose into one fluid picture. SkyDrive is perhaps the least exciting but necessary app included in Windows Essentials. Similar to approach, SkyDrive creates a folder that syncs to the cloud and between machines.

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Make a change to a document on one machine and every other machine you have linked to your SkyDrive will update that document to the latest version. Integration is seamless and you'll soon forget about it, which is good. Windows Live Mail While competitors Apple has their default Mail application, Windows doesn't come with a mail client out of the box. Windows Essentials solves this by bundling Windows Live Mail. It is a solid mail client that offers a good way to manage your mail on the desktop.