No Wave 4 (yet), but a new sign in page, Yay!

By Kip Kniskern on March 12, 2010 9:16 AM

10 comments

We’re all chomping at the bit for new Windows Live toys to play with, obviously, when something as seemingly minor as a new Hotmail sign-in page generates no less than 4 tips (as always we really appreciate it)!

Sometime today (our first tip was at 3pm), the Hotmail sign in page was updated, nothing really new in terms of features, but the furniture has been moved around a bit, and things seem a bit snappier:

The new page doesn’t feature any of the “single sign-on” features we spotted back in January, but it could very well be in preparation for them. Of course it could also be that someone in Redmond is as anxious for new bits as us, and couldn’t wait to go live with …something. Anyway, thanks for the heads up to Julian, Maurice, Nathan and Orion!

Posted in News | Tags: Hotmail, ID, Wave 4

Comments

http://www.techinch.com/ Matthew

Looks nice … and the fonts definately have a “Metro” look to them. Can’t wait for Wave 4 to go live!
http://squaregarden.net/ Garion

I also noticed this too (and posted before liveside as well :P)

One thing I noticed was that you can now save your password on firefox (something that wasn’t possible before)
Mario Albertico

I wonder if the display picture will actually display on a more consistent level from any updates to Windows Live ID Sign-Assistant. I hate when I keep having to refresh my Live Messenger display picture just so that Sign-In Assistant actually shows the picture.

JSYOUNG571

And I thought I was the only one who noticed that. It never shows majority of the time. I also notice the same problem on Windows Live Messenger. Display picture of friends is always sometimes and not consistant.

emil

nice but i don’t understand why if u go to login.live.com it have always wave 2 look (like other link too that i don’t remember)

http://about.me/mackenzieprice mackenziepricee

What the..
Just checked it out. What’s the deal?

JohnCz

I’m also noticing that things seem to be snappier. Especially when jumping from one Live service to another. This could be attributed to optimizations they may have made to the authentication process.
JSYOUNG571

Has anybody noticed that it is a a problem when you try to sign in through Windows Live Toolbar. Everthing is big on the sign in page?
http://blog.mynetx.net/ mynetx

I wonder whether the new sign-in page style is in preparation for announcements scheduled for MIX10, beginning in 2 days?
http://cid-280a1538334a1cb9.profile.live.com/ Seika

Had problem with delegated login on some sites sometimes though.
Seems like the password is rejected, and then when trying to enter the password again, IE asked if I want to re-submit (or cancel, which returned a blank page).
Local problem ?

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