Microsoft has recently released the ability for you to give Microsoft Points to your friends now, the only catch is you need to know their Windows Live ID to start this process.

I found this on the Unscripted360.Com site today and as a whim asked Deacon to test it by sending points to me. I was surprised with his response of sure, just make sure you spend 50 points on a little something. I was only joking.

That encouraged me to Pay It Forward and I picked a U360 friend and sent him a little gift then. The cool thing about the points, is not only can you use them on Xbox Live, but your can use them on the Zune Marketplace as well.

So if you know a Zuner or Xbox Live gamer, then here's another option for gift giving. Now you can't take points you already have and use them. You have to buy new points and send them in the amounts of 2000, 1000, or 500 points. So that's only $25.00, $12.50, or $6.25 and no shipping... Great! Kudos to Microsoft for setting this up and I only hope they can figure out away to allow us to enter a Gamertag down the road. Would be easier then asking everyone for their Live ID. So start your own Point Spread and give a little!