As you’ve hopefully already heard by the time you read this, the Windows Live team made some very exciting announcements today, including partnerships with Digg, Facebook, and MySpace.  Here are a couple links with more details:

These announcements represent one of the things I like best about Microsoft.  We’re a partnering company.  We like to make sure our stuff works with other people’s stuff.  Whether it’s partnerships like today’s announcements or making sure your applications and hardware devices work with the next version of Windows, it’s core to our DNA as a company to want to partner with others in our industry.

Why do partnerships?  In the end, it’s about simplifying things for our customers.  That’s consumers like you and me.  And that’s businesses and organizations from the largest multi-national corporation all the way to that small gift shop around the corner.  When we do the work to partner with other companies, we make make our customer’s lives easier.

I hope you’re as jazzed about today’s announcements as I am.  What do you think?  Please let me know by commenting below.

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

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