It wasn’t too many moons ago that the Windows Live Messenger team officially announced that users running either Windows Server or 64-Bit editions of Windows would not be able to install any Windows Live Applications.

Seeing as how I am currently running not only Windows Server 2008, but the 64-Bit edition as well, this poses to be a bit of an issue for me. Thankfully however, Rafael Rivera quickly discovered that it was not the applications them selves that did not support these operating systems, but the Windows Live Installer, which is required to download and install them. It also seems that installation is as easy as running the individual MSI’s for each app.

This is where things get a bit complicated. The problem here is, that Microsoft doesn’t host each MSI separately and forces users to use the Windows Live Installer, so getting your hands on these MSI’s has been a bit of a tricky process, requiring you to run the Windows Live Installer on another machine which is running a supported OS, find the hidden MSI’s that the installer downloads, and transfer them to your “unsupported” system.

However, with the help of Rafael and Matt Sharpe, I have here the MSI’s for every Windows Live Application there is, for your downloading needs:

• Download Windows Live Messenger 8.5
• Download Windows Live Mail
• Download Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Download Windows Live Toolbar
• Download Windows Live Writer
• Download Windows Live Sign-In Assistant

Just run the individual MSI’s and before you know it, you’ll be running your favorite Windows Live apps on your 64-Bit/Server system!