Live Connect

At MIX07, Microsoft's Senior Architect Danny Thorpe described:[1] [The Windows Live Platform] today can combine video, photos, contacts, maps, and search into web applications.

Users can drop web controls into the web applications with just a few lines of JavaScript and be up and running in a matter of minutes, and they can dive a little deeper to access service APIs directly and define their own UI and process flow.

Users have control over what applications can access their private data, and can revoke that access at any time.Live Connect is built on standard web technologies such as OAuth 2.0, Representational State Transfer (REST), and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and is designed to work with any technology or device including ASP.NET, Microsoft Silverlight (in-browser and out-of-browser models), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Adobe Flash, PHP, and Java.

On September 13, 2011, Messenger Connect was renamed to Live Connect and brings additional APIs for OneDrive and Outlook contacts and calendars as well as adding XMPP support for the Messenger service.

Live Connect can be used on websites, in desktop applications, as well as Windows 8 Metro-style apps.