They’ve been spending a lot of time lately working on making your space load faster and adding cool video features; but they know that you all LOVE new themes and customization options.

So they asked a few of the designers from Windows Live to create some new default themes for you all.   AND, if you’re into basketball – there are a bunch of LeBron James themes under the sports category as part of the upcoming LeBron challenge on MSN (more on that coming soon).

Themes by category:

Art:
· Street Graffiti

Music and entertainment:
· Music Machine

Nature:
· Cat Tails
· Garden Lawn
· Moon set

Objects:
· Ropes

Patterns:
· Light Stream
· Tiles
· Wallpaper Stripes

Sports:
· LeBron Book
· LeBron Graffiti
· LeBron Hoops
· King James
· Slick LeBron

Check them out below:

Note: All of these themes are available in English speaking countries now and will be available worldwide at the end of the month with the exception of the Lebron themes which are currently only available in  the US.

Also, don’t forget that if you’re using the “Colors” feature to change the colors in your space (for text, links, backgrounds etc.), that your colors will be applied to the new themes when you browse through them.  To see the themes without your colors, go to Customize > Colors and click the link to “Clear your settings and use the default colors” (if you don’t click Save, you won’t lose your custom colors if you decide you don’t like any of the new themes. Make sure you click Cancel!)