Alerts to wireless devices are available to users in the United States, Canada and China only.

Windows Live Alerts Syndication Edition allowed bloggers and other content providers to keep their readers up-to-date and drive traffic to their websites by providing alert services to their blogs and websites.

Content providers were only required to publish their contents via RSS or Atom feeds and place a "Windows Live Alerts Sign-Up" link on their websites to utilize this service.

New contents' headlines would be automatically distributed via an alert to readers through Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail (now Outlook.com) or a mobile device, depending on the reader's alert settings.

Content providers could choose to have three different types of "toast" notifications displayed on their reader's screen when new alerts arrive: Currently[as of?