After some delay in shipping, the Windows Live team has now updated the public downloads and the Release Candidate of the Windows Live Essentials Suite is now available for free download. The Windows Live Essentials include Windows Live Mail 2009 RC, Windows Live Messenger 2009 RC, Windows Live Photo Library
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.
Live Essentials RCs: In case you wonder
Just in case you wonder about the announced release of the Windows Live Essentials (that is, the programs for your PC, like Live Mail, Live Messenger, Live Photo Gallery, Live Movie Maker, Live Writer, Live Toolbar and Live Family Safety) – they had been planned to ship Friday noon Redmond
Windows Live Sync released
The former Windows Live FolderShare has been renamed to Windows Live Sync and released to the public. When I installed the new client, however, I couldn’t find any differences to the old FolderShare, except for the Wave 3 sign-in wizard. The team reports some enhancements in its new Live Sync
Windows Live tips in the upcoming Release Candidate
The release candidate of Windows Live Messenger 2009, being expected for this week, will feature a new function to hint you how to use certain functions within Windows Live. This popup window will show you usage tips about the new Windows Live experience and won’t open on each sign-in, but
Live Wave 3 rollout, Part IV: Family Safety
There’s another service upgraded to Wave 3, along with release – thus no Beta anymore… Look there:
Live Wave 3 rollout, Part III: Remaining services
Let’s take a look at the rest of the services in a After-Before mode. Click the images to enlarge them. Windows Live Events Windows Live Home Windows Live SkyDrive Windows Live Spaces Now we’re looking forward to the rest of the week. It will bring us the complete new set
Live Wave 3 rollout: Official start announcement
As you see already in my previous posts, Windows Live Wave 3 is rolling out. Now we get the official announcement that it happens… Today we’ve started releasing the first set of updates to our web services, and these will continue to roll out globally over the next 24 hours
Live Wave 3 rollout, Part II: Support Center
As I promised, here is another transformed site: the Windows Live Support Center. I know, it is not a Windows Live Service, but it has nevertheless been edited as well. Stay tuned… Thanks to Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net for the hint!
Live Wave 3 rollout, Part I: Account Center
I’m gonna start a short series over the next days to keep you up-to-date on which services get a redesign. The first one is the Windows Live Account Center at http://account.live.com/ , looking like this now: Stay tuned for more services to be transformed in short…
Live Wave 3: the next round will start soon (UPDATE)
As various hints indicate, the phase 3 of the Windows Live Services Wave 3 update will start between December 5th and December 12th, 2008. Update: Numerous sources confirm that the Web Services (not the Clients) will roll out from December 1st until December 8th, 2008. What does this Wave 3