The Beta version of new Microsoft Live Essential has been made available for download by Microsoft last week. The powerful but fairly low profile (given the fact that MS product rarely got coverage but tech blogs) is specifically designed for only Windows Vista and Windows 7 (going to disappoint Windows XP users), focus on cloud services integration as well as simplify the everyday task.

Microsoft Live Essentials provide you the desktop tools for the most frequently task done only daily basis although not all is necessarily valuable to most. It got Messenger for chatting, Photo Gallery to manage your photo, Mail as email client, Movie Maker for movie editing, Writer to compost blog post to various blogging platform , Family Safety to monitor internet usage, and Toolbar, Microsoft Office Outlook Connector to bring Hotmail and Live Calendar to your Outlook email client, Office Live Add-in, and Microsoft Silverlight.

With focus to integrate existing cloud services in use, Windows Live Essential is now able to connect to various cloud services and social networking websites such as Youtube, Flickr, Facebook and etc. The addition of what could be seen as the biggest enhancement of Windows Live Essential is timely when integration between various web services is common to other services, and very critical to appeal to the mass.

Most tools also have undergone quite extensive modification to simplify the task to get job done. Backing the storage of most tools above is Windows Live Skydrive, on the free on cloud storage with up to 25GB space.

If you new to Windows Live Essential, the video below should provide you an adequate overview about this service.