Facebook for your Windows Mobile 6 phone

New from Windows Mobile: a Facebook application for your phone! Download the new Facebook application for Windows Mobile and:

Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list. Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook. Send messages or call people in your Friends list. Manage your profile and post anytime, anywhere.

Keep up with the latest news and posts with Facebook on your phone. Now your status updates can be up-to-the moment accounts of what you’re doing. Photos and videos are about as close to live-action as you can get. Show your friends what you’re up to, while you’re out and about.

Connecting and sharing on Facebook just got a lot livelier!

Get the best of both worlds with Internet Explorer Mobile 6

Windows phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 or later come with the latest version of Internet Explorer Mobile. Internet Explorer Mobile 6 delivers the same high quality browsing and media viewing experience that you’ve come to expect on your desktop computer.

See more If you can see it in Internet Explorer on your PC, you’ll be able to see it just as well on your Windows phone, whether the content you want is on YouTube, a game using Flash animation, or on a social site like Facebook or MySpace.

Do more Just like you do on your PC, you can complete online transactions easily on your Windows phone. Log in to secure sites, make purchases, fill out and submit forms online—you can do it all as effortlessly as you would on your PC.

Find more Working hand-in-hand with Windows Live Search, Internet Explorer Mobile 6 targets the results of your searches so that you get the information that is most relevant to you, no matter where you are. You can zoom in and out, or pan across maps and photos. Your search can be typed or spoken, and the results are returned with complete addresses, phone numbers, and maps, so you can contact who or what you’re looking for.

Internet Explorer Mobile

Getting online from your phone—whether to stay on top of your e-mail, get maps and directions, update your Facebook or MySpace account, or shop—now, that's useful. Use Internet Explorer Mobile, which is included with every Windows phone, to take care of your life and your business from just about anywhere you go.

Internet Explorer Mobile makes it easy to:

Sync the Favorites you’ve saved on your PC. Change your view to make the display appear in a full-screen format or in a single-column view to limit side-to-side scrolling.

Internet Explorer Mobile is included on all Windows phones, and works on both touch screen and non-touch screen devices.

Become an Insider— with Windows phone News

Is it having the power of a PC in the palm of your hand? Or is it knowing the information you need is never further away than your phone? No matter why you love your Windows phone, there’s always another reason just around the corner. Windows phone News helps you get the most from your Windows phone. Get Insider tips on how to minimize roaming fees, use Wi-Fi to browse faster, and even help you reach your fitness goals. Plus, you’ll also get access to free downloads like ringtones, games, and apps to make your phone uniquely yours.

Desktop gadgets(Windows7)

Desktop gadgets are customizable mini-programs that can display information, such as continuously updated headlines or a picture slide show, without having to open a new window.

User account picture(Windows7)

A user account picture helps identify your account on a computer. The picture is displayed on the Welcome screen and on the Start menu. You can change your user account picture to one of the pictures included with Windows, or you can use your own.

Screen savers(Windows7)

A screen saver is a picture or animation that appears on the screen when you haven't used the mouse or keyboard for a set period of time. You can choose from a variety of Windows screen savers.

Desktop background (Windows7)

The desktop background, also called wallpaper, is a picture, color, or design on the desktop. It provides a backdrop to your open windows. You can choose one picture to be your desktop background or you can display a slide show of pictures.

Aero (Windows7)

Aero is the premium visual experience of this version of Windows. It features a transparent glass design with subtle window animations, a new Start menu, a new taskbar, and new window border colors.

Themes On Windows7

A theme includes a desktop background, a screen saver, a window border color, sounds, and sometimes icons and mouse pointers. You can choose from several Aero themes. Use the whole theme or create your own customized theme by changing the pictures, colors, and sounds individually.

Personalizing your computer on Vista.

You can add a personal touch to your computer by changing the computer's theme, color, sounds, desktop background, screen saver, font size, and user account picture. You can also select specific gadgets for your desktop.

Protection against the latest threats

• A dedicated team of Microsoft researchers continuously searches the Internet to discover new spyware and develop methods to counteract it.
• A voluntary, worldwide network of Windows Defender users helps Microsoft determine which suspicious programs to classify as spyware. Participants help discover new threats quickly and notify Microsoft analysts, so that everyone is better protected. Anyone who uses Windows Defender can join this network and help report potential spyware to Microsoft.
• To help protect your computer from the latest threats, you can choose to have updates that counteract new spyware automatically downloaded to your computer.

Improved Internet browsing safety

• Windows Defender helps stop spyware before it infiltrates your computer. Windows Defender also offers a continuous safeguard designed to target all the ways that spyware can infiltrate your computer.
• Windows Defender works without distracting you. It runs in the background and automatically handles spyware based on preferences that you set. You can use your computer with minimal interruption.

Windows Defender detects and removes spyware

Windows Defender is software that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software by detecting and removing known spyware from your computer. Windows Defender features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected, minimizes interruptions, and helps you stay productive.