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well okay so we're going to have a look at the windows communications apps and these are basically the windows live replacements and Microsoft has obviously pre-installed them on the consumer preview version here so if we start off with messaging so this is like windows live messenger if we right-click we can go to new and start up a conversation with someone so select that person you say hey and doesn't look like this any way to share sort of images and the sort of typical file attachments our stuff at the moment but it's obviously just a basic messenger at the moment expect that by the time the ship's they'll probably be a bit a lot more functionality but the moment is sort of you can change your status to appear online or offline and you can message people and that's about it there's no sign of any SMS integration that we've seen rumored but this is basically the windows live messenger equivalent okay so now we're going to take a look at the inbuilt mail application and add a hotmail camp so you just seen as we're adding the hotmail account one of the sort of notifications from messing up i just clicked on that so they'll switch is obviously back straight into the Machine up okay so this is basically the mail interface it and we're running a bit of a low resolution at the moment so we obviously haven't got a good preview on the right hand side here and but you'll see is you can obviously access any of your mail okay so you can use the Delete key to delete in males here so just a sort of normal thing that you do expect and now one of the important improvements is much less actually editing exchange functionality and so you don't actually require an outlet capitation to get access to an exchange mailbox and that's quite powerful for a free application that will ship with Windows 8 once you've had in an account you can quickly switch between them if you right click and go to the account screen here and obviously if you've got multiple accounts they will be listed on the left hand side here but the default sort of interface is just this to panel one here so you've got your mail on your left and a preview on the right hand side here okay so next up we're gonna have a look at the photos application now this app will provide access to SkyDrive photos and Facebook photos by default and you can also link in your flickr photos if you've got a flickr account mina and now the pictures library will see contain all the sort of like local pictures that you've either saved or you've taken from a webcam and we haven't got any right now and but you can go in and take a look at perhaps some of the face version features there save me look at some of the your cover photo there obviously mobile play so they all freely available to to browse free okay so within the photos application you can obviously go into your photos here if you right-click you get a few options you can you view it directly on facebook or you can set it as an appt tile or set it as the lock screen let's just go ahead and do that so it's gone ahead and done that so now if we lock the device we've got our own picture on that okay so we're just gonna have a look at the actual work and in a replication and we go in obviously just a sort of basic calendar here and you can add add entries as you'd expect and you can you can also look at a week view I'll give you your Ebola and debut that gives you today and tomorrow and you can also you switch straight back to to today if you've gone like a few along you get back today for any quickly so fairly simple application