Many of you are looking forward to the progress that the Windows Live team is making with its next Essentials version. Codenamed “Wave 4,” Windows Live 2010 will take 5 months from today until it is released as RTM. Francisco Martín García, connected to Microsoft Iberia, has published details about Microsoft’s internal planning.
Category: Windows Live
Announced in 2005, Windows Live offers you a broad set of tools to communicate with your friends: Windows Live Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services.
How-to: Link 2 Hotmail accounts / Windows Live IDs
You have more than one Windows Live ID — for example one in the office and one privately? You can link both with each other. If you do that, you can sign in at a Windows Live website like Hotmail once and access information in both accounts.
Techies Insider: A look at Messenger’s client caps
You’re interested in possible Client Capabilities of Messenger 2010? Take a look at this summary of the current dogfood build 2583.
Beware of the current Messenger virus
A computer virus is spreading at the moment, and Messenger is one of the places where it is distributed. Maybe you have heard about it. Here are some tips to avoid getting the virus, and what you can do if you got it already.
Getting Messenger sign-in error 8004820 solved
There is a new solution for the Windows Live Messenger error code 8004820. If you get this error, maybe the only problem is that your system clock has the wrong date set.
Messenger Problems: Resolving sign-in error 800702e4
If you are getting the error code 800702e4, that can be related to an Instant Messaging blocker in your antivirus software.
Messenger 2010: Get the new emoticons now!
Messenger 2010 will get a new set of emoticons. You don’t want to wait until Windows Live 2010 (Wave 4) is released? There is a way how you can use the new emoticons right now.
Windows Live Writer 2010, discovered
The Chinese news platform cnbeta.com has published new screenshots of Windows Live Writer 2010 Beta (Wave 4 Milestone 3).
Messenger Plus! 4.83: Summary of the recent changes
Since December 2009, several new builds of Messenger Plus! 4.83 have been published on the Web without any accompanying list what was changed. For the one’s interested among you, Patchou has backtraced these minor changes.
Messenger Plus!: Moving on to new pastures
Messenger Plus! creator Patchou (Cyril Paciullo) has announced that everything concerning the recent move over to Yuna Software has been settled. Software development is back on track, the plannings for Messenger Plus! Live 5 are running, and Patchou is going to be the leader in Yuna’s new Montreal office.