This is a guest post by Leon Guo, Product Planner Groups.im. Recently Microsoft came out with the new Windows Live Groups, and I have found a similar service to compare with it from http://groups.im/. Both of them are used by people all around the world and both came out to
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Disable Aero for Windows Live Messenger 2009 RC
You ever wondered that Messenger uses Windows Aero frames since the 14.0.5027.908 beta in September? You want the original Messenger frame back, but you don’t want to disable Aero completely in Windows? The solution is: Use the Messenger Aero Switcher. In order to use it, you should be on Windows
Changes in the Windows Live Messenger RC
If you wonder what changed from the last beta to the current release candidate, here is a summary. The design has been updated to the Wave 3 design. The notification design has changed. The new notifications use Direct3D 9. The What’s New feed entries are now linked properly. There is
Windows Live Essentials Beta: RCs now publicly available
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
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