Microsoft is currently cooking Wave 3 of its Windows Live suite of products and services. As of July 30, the Redmond company unveiled Windows Live FrameIt, a new Windows Live service built as an integral part of Wave 3. windows - comments - 1.8.2008
Looks like its open-season on Wave 3 now, with Inky over at Mess.be getting his hands on the Wave 3 Milestone 1 installer for Windows Live Messenger. microsoft - comments - 12.8.2008
The first few details about the next iteration of Microsoft's set of Windows Live software and services, known as Windows Live Wave 4, are beginning to emerge. Two new services, Windows Live Documents and Windows Live Devices, are currently undergoing testing within Microsoft. microsoft - comments - 10.8.2009
As we reported on last week, Microsoft has been prepping a big refresh for Windows Live Hotmail users. Starting this week, users should begin noticing changes to their interface. microsoft - comments - 30.9.2008
New rumors are saying we'll be seeing a beta of Windows Live Wave 4 this week, and the final release in Spring/Summer 2010. microsoft - comments - 5.10.2009
With today's release of Windows Live Movie Maker 14, Microsoft has also released a Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) patch for all Windows Live applications. microsoft - comments - 20.8.2009
Get ready to access the third wave of Windows 7 RTM downloads from Microsoft. Today, August 21, 2009, the Redmond company will make available for download Windows 7 RTM wave 3 for its developer and IT professional audiences, through their respective portals. windows - comments - 21.8.2009
Xbox 360 offers the latest in entertainment options for everyone, from a library of 160 high- definition games expected by holiday to downloadable standard and high-definition TV shows and movies. microsoft - comments - 22.11.2006
Microsoft, will be reaviling a new Windows Live product on 14th August 2006. This new product will be called Windows Live Writer. This new product from Microsoft will allow a user to write documents/blog postings from a downloadable application called Windows Live Writer and post them to a blog (other than Windows Live Spaces). Right know, we have no other known features, except Spell Check, of this product untill Monday the 14th.
download - comments - 13.8.2006
Windows Live Messenger is the next - generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger, and much more! download - comments - 4.10.2007
The first version of Messenger 8 Beta branded as Windows Live Messenger 8 has been spotted on the internet. Version 8.0.0328 features a lot of graphical improvements, from display picture borders to replacing toast boxes. microsoft - comments -
Less than two months after the final release of Windows Live Messenger, a new build has been released last night. No word on any changes in Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0812. download - comments - 9.8.2006
Maybe it's inappropriate to use the word "leak" in this metaphor, so let's just say some little birdies couldn't hold on to "their precious". Yes, just like we thought this morning it was only a matter of time for the very recent internal build of Windows Live Messenger to hit the public web for your own "previewing" pleasure. download - comments - 18.4.2006
Many users love to have high quality beautiful wallpapers on their desktop and often we get bore with old wallpapers and we need to search and download more wallpapers from internet. It’s not easy to get such high quality wallpapers. download - comments - 21.7.2009
Microsoft has made available for download the July 2008 Community Technology Preview of the Windows Live tools for Visual Studio 2008. download - comments - 29.7.2008
Two new free editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 are live for download from Microsoft. The offerings are just the latest versions from a series delivered since late 2006, following the release of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2. download - comments - 20.8.2007
Microsoft Game Studios general manager Shane Kim has been talking to Next Generation about Halo 3, the second wave of Xbox 360 games and lessons learned from the recent platform launch.
We caught up with Shane Kim at the recent DICE summit to talk about the various issues surrounding first and third party Xbox 360 development. Not surprisingly, we wanted to talk about Halo 3, but Kim points out there's a whole lot more going on at Microsoft than that game... microsoft - comments - 22.2.2006
Make no mistake about it, the gold bits of Windows XP Service Pack 3 are available for download straight from Microsoft, contrary to what the company is claiming. windows - comments - 1.5.2008
On Monday Microsoft began rolling out Windows Live Spaces, the next generation of the world’s most widely used blogging service, MSN Spaces. The new service includes social networking features designed to help users discover and connect with friends through their trusted contacts and allows customers to personalize their Windows Live Spaces with gadgets. windows - comments - 2.8.2006
After the announcements yesterday about Microsoft's new "live" services the company held a press conference detailing all the products in the Microsoft Live platform.
The company demoed an early version of Office Live, a managed web application for organising calendar, mail and contacts. Office Live will combine Web Hosting, Collaboration of Projects, Business Applications and Communications. Many expect a fully hosted version of Microsoft Office but this is not the company's intension for Office Live. microsoft - comments -
While it is in the process of forcing users of its IM client to upgrade to the latest version of the client-based application, Microsoft has introduced a new version of Windows Live Messenger. microsoft - comments - 13.10.2009
Wave 3 is the
newest release of the core Windows Live suite of software and services. In the new suite, unified via a common installer, are updated versions of
Windows Live Messenger instant-messaging; Windows Live Mail (with a new and improved Live Calendar); Windows Live Writer blog-posting tool; Windows
Live Movie Maker; Windows Live Photo Gallery, the Family Safety parental control tools and the Outlook Connector.
A new wave of Windows Live betas are now available for download, including Messenger v9, Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail with Calendar synchronisation,
Writer, Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the Outlook Connector.
LiveSide is recommending that if you have the Writer CTP or any other
Wave 3 products installed, you should uninstall them first.
At an event in the Netherlands yesterday, Darren Huston, Corporate Vice President of COI at Microsoft, revealed that the updated Windows Live Wave 3
RC applications will be released next week. LiveSide bloggers were on hand to get the scoop that the applications will be released next week at
download.live.com. Final versions of Hotmail, Calendar and People are expected in February 2009 too. The Messenger Wave 3 RC will include the new UI
we revealed at PDC and Messenger icon, shown below.
Microsoft has just made the updated release candidate of the Windows Live Suite wave 3 at download.live.com. Thanks to Sean Bradford for alerting
us. Microsoft has updated the Messenger client to Version 2009 (Build 14.0.8050.1202) as can be seen below from the about Window: There is no beta
tag anywhere on this build as it's a near final build and Messenger plus does work with this build but not all features are usable. Overall the
UI has been enhanced in most areas with minor changes. The main improvements are the integration to Windows 7 with the new jump lists feature.
With today's release of Windows Live Movie Maker 14, Microsoft has also released a Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) patch for all Windows Live
applications. At the time of writing, it is not known what is new or what has been fixed with this wave of QFE patches. These patches apply to the
Windows Live 2008 (Wave 3) applications. Microsoft has yet to make the official announcement regarding this second wave of QFE patches, but as soon
as we hear something we'll let you know what has been updated/fixed. Special thanks to Microsoft MVP Jonathan Kay for alerting and providing
the links to the downloads.
After almost a year of beta testing, Microsoft is currently preparing the final releases of Wave 3 for Windows Live. There are two major updates that
are yet to come, and we've received some information from some insiders within the company. The first release will be an update to Windows Live
Messenger. A Microsoft employee recently listed a new build number of Windows Live Messenger in their personal status message. After speaking with a
company representative, they are preparing to release a QFE (Quick Fix Engineering) patch for Windows Live Messenger.
Earlier this week Microsoft updated their Hotmail service to the new Windows Live Wave 3. Though Home and Spaces remained the same. Yesterday however,
those were also updated with new features and gadgets. The New Live Wave 3 which seems to have been rolled out feaures Dynamic themes, updated
Weather forecasts, and the ability to add pictures. The page itself also integrates a number of services. All your messenger contact info is sent to
Windows Live Home, additionally, Office Workspaces has also been integrated to show all files and folders added. Now let's talk about SkyDrive.
SkyDrive got a major boost. Last week you were able to store up to 5GB, now it has been boosted to 25GB.
The first few details about the next iteration of Microsoft's set of Windows Live software and services, known as Windows Live Wave 4, are
beginning to emerge. Two new services, Windows Live Documents and Windows Live Devices, are currently undergoing testing within Microsoft. Windows
Live Documents will replace the existing Office Live Workspaces service, which provides users with online access to their documents and facilities for
sharing work with others. The current online applications will be replaced with the free offerings of the new Office Web applications - lightweight
versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote which allow users to create, edit, and share Office documents though a browser.
Last week we were told
to expect the Windows Live Wave 3 web services by the end of the year, with the Windows Live Wave 3 client applications following soon after. As
usual, Microsoft didn't give any official dates to the public in its announcement. But yesterday, the company sent out an e-mail to its beta
testers, in which the software giant explained, among other things, that December 1 was the day to mark on the calendar.
The latest suite of Windows Live "Wave 3" betas is now available for download, which includes the beta of Windows Live Movie Maker. Can you
really use it to edit a motion picture? Yea...in a sense, as we found out first-hand... betanews.com - 18.09.2008
Microsoft has begun promoting the "Wave 3" Windows Live Hotmail update, promising a UI and functionality upgrade that will make the Web-based
mail client more like Outlook... betanews.com - 27.08.2008
Steve Ballmer has just announced that the final versions of the Wave 3 applications (excluding Movie Maker) will be available on Thursday. Microsoft
released a release candidate of the applications shortly before Christmas.
So far, Windows Live has meant what’s now called Windows Live Essentials, the suite of downloadable software (Live
Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker) for a while now, since the Wave 3 beta opened up in September. But the desktop downloads are only half of
Windows Live, and now for the first time we’re about to get our hands on the online bits: Profile, People, Photos, Home.Live.com, and more.
Have you been drooling over the latest screenshots of Windows Live wave 3? Now get yourself in on the action. Microsoft is launching the official
Windows Live Wave 3 beta today.
Watcher of all things Microsoft Live, LiveSide.net has the links
to the official downloads from Microsoft, that include the latest versions of Live Messenger, Movie Maker, Mail with Calendar synchronization, Writer,
Photo Gallery, Family Safety and the Outlook Connector. These downloads have been confirmed as functional, and in the case of Windows Live Messenger
will install "Version 2009, build 14.0.5027.908"
The leaks
are picking up. Windo
ws Live Wave 3 the next version of Microsoft’s Windows Live software and services is finally expected to move into broader beta testing in
the coming weeks.
Microsoft is expected to refresh all of its core Windows Live services, plus the common installer, as part of
Wave 3. There is a new version of Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery and more that are in the
pipeline. Microsoft has hinted that it will be revamping Windows Live Spaces, its blogging/social-networking platform, in a major way as part of the
Wave 3 release. In addition, all of the core Windows Live services are expected to get more
profile-centric as part of the next wave.
In an email sent to users of
it's MSN Direct service, Microsoft states that the release to market date of Windows Live
Messenger is February 10, 2009.
At the same time the company is expected to release the forthcoming updates for Windows Live Mail, Windows
Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Writer, and the rest of the Windows Live Suite.
Microsoft is slowly developing Wave 3 as the next version
of its messenger product has been in development for some months now.
Company officials were unavailable for comment at the time of
writing.
Less than a week
ago, Microsoft started to roll out Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 to users of its e-mail service. It didn't take long for those lucky few users
that got the service to realize that they weren't so lucky after all. On the Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support Blog a post entitled "Problem seeing your Hotmail Folders" recently appeared with
the following body...
The release of (Codename Peloton for those keeping track), is expected to mainly take place from 4pm PST (2nd December) onwards, and will include the
release of new services such as Windows Live Groups, Photos and Profile as well as the significantly updated Home and Mobile offerings. No this
doesn't include the release of Windows Live Essentials, the desktop applications.
Note, Hotmail and Calendar are both on a different
release schedule, and as such will remain at their Wave 3 Milestone 2 builds until a later update. So no WebMessenger integration just yet :(
All the new services are available, so check them out.
Windows Live Photos (>) Windows Live SkyDrive () Windows Live
Groups () Windows Live Home ()
Looks like its open-season on Wave 3 now, with Inky over at Mess.be getting his hands on the
Wave 3 Milestone 1 installer for Windows Live Messenger. While Inky may be obsessed with version numbers and about screens, we’re more
interested in what’s going on in terms of new integration across services. Its now been 9 months since the launch of Messenger 8.5, Mail and
Photo Gallery as part of Wave 2, but as this is only a first milestone, there’ll be other internal updates before a version gets released to the
public. That said, there’s still some positive signs that the eventual Messenger v9 release is going to be good.
Windows Live FrameIt, a Small Piece of Windows Live Wave 3