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Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!

Posted May 25 2009, 08:44 PM by damaster with 14 comment(s)

Windows Live Alerts have finally gotten a facelift and joins the rest of the Windows Live family in getting the “Wave 3” look – making it one of the last Windows Live services to make the switch (Video Messages just made the switch a month ago, and there’s only My.Live.com, Gallery and Silverlight Streaming left to go). Interestingly, Alerts totally skipped the “Wave 2” look and went straight from the good old Flair/Blue Vapour theme to the new one. Enough said, here’s a screenshot of the new look:

Windows Live Alerts

From initial testing, it doesn’t seem like it contains any new features as part of this update, besides the new “Featured Alerts Providers” homepages for each country/region. The link for website owners to sign-up and create their own alerts for their website was also removed from the homepage. The supposedly “new” feature for content owners to create custom Branded Alerts and Alert with Advertisement that was under limited beta testing previously was also not apparent in this update:

Custom Alert 

We also heard that it may become part of the new Azure Service Platform. At least this shows that Windows Live Alerts is still alive!

Thanks to Picturepan2 at LiveSino.net and BV2312 for the heads up!

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paperlock wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 5:07 AM

These two web sites have not been updated two wave 3 yet.

Silverlight Streaming.

http://silverlight.live.com/

windows live gallery.

http://gallery.live.com/

The next question is when can we all start two windows live wave 4.

BV2312 wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 5:12 AM

@damaster!! i emailed about this 4 days ago :<

damaster wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 5:26 AM

@paperlock: Thanks! Post updated!

@BV2312: Sorry I don't have access to the tips *at* LiveSide *dot* net  account (maybe I should sign up for an Alert for that account =P), but thanks for sending us the tip anyways! I've updated the post to acknowledge your contribution =) Keep the tips coming!

MenthiX wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 6:22 AM

Googe to see alerts aren't dead. I really wish they made it easier for site owners to change their alert feeds though. Afaik the only way to make changes afterwards is via email, the last 2 times I tried that there wasn't any reply.

lbastie wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 8:44 AM

The real question is: when will there be a complete and up-to-date inventory of those Windows Live Services? The challenge is for one WL user to find them all. There is no single place on WL propoerties that has this list.

Videomessages, for instance: a great feature. But who knows about it? And who would know, since it is not listed anywhere.

lbastie wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 8:52 AM

Here is another Service still on phase 2: http://onecare.live.com

MenthiX wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 9:11 AM

OneCare is being discontinued, would be a waste of time to update the looks of that.

joeale wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 9:37 AM

When will Windows Live Messenger IM Control updated two wave 3.

Enables web sites to show the presence of Windows Live Messenger users, and let site visitors engage in instant messaging conversations with the Messenger users directly from the browser.

settings.messenger.live.com

When is windows live wave 4 going two in two beta testing.And what happening with listas and thumbtack

http://thumbtack.livelabs.com/

listas.labs.live.com/default.aspx

Next question is what is happening with popfly it has not upated.

http://www.popfly.com/

Microsoft taskmarket is going become a windows live product.

http://www.taskmarket.com/

Next question is what is going on with all these search engine.

http://www.viveri.com/

http://www.live.com/

http://tafiti.mslivelabs.com/

CalumJR wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 9:53 AM

Just like Hotmail, they do not have support for dynamic themes on the new Windows Live Alerts homepage - it's still ridiculous, the amount of inconsistencies they have. They have support for dynamic themes on some services and it appears to be random.

I don't mind it as much not having it on Windows Live Alerts, but to miss it out of Hotmail is appaling. In fact, it's inconsistency whichever way you look at it if it isn't on both.

I don't even dare go to Windows Live Support or Windows Live Feedback because of how inconsistent their supposed 'wave 3' look is.

Oh dear!

BV2312 wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 11:16 AM

@damaster no probs, just for you Microsoft have updated their 'Phone Data Manager' and their space is :

phonedatamanager.spaces.live.com

quikboy wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 8:14 PM

I really wished Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites would use Windows Live Alerts. Instead of clogging my e-mail inbox with little items that are relatively minor in importance, I'd rather just have little alerts telling me this.

Hb8 wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 9:41 PM

They may have updated the look to Wave3, but the functionality is still zero.  I can't unsubscribe from alerts of services that don't exist anymore.  Live Expo anyone?  Yeah...can't get rid of it. Or MSN Calendar, or MSN Money, or eBay back in the day when they used Passport.  

brentgv wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Mon, May 25 2009 11:55 PM

I can't live without the msnbc.com Breaking News alerts on my phone.  Nice to see the page get updated.

Geekygran wrote re: Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!
on Tue, May 26 2009 2:02 AM

You all seem to have missed out one very important area of Windows Live which also missed out in having a facelift during Wave 3 and that is Spaces!  For many users of Windows Live its the most important area as well. Poor Spaces is in dire need of bringing bang up to date in this gran's opinion. More themes ( perhaps the same as the rest of Live) more layouts, more modules, choice of wider layouts, more fonts and font sizes, all the lot needs a complete overall.

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