Next up after Los Links, and perhaps with a nod to Bing Entertainment, is the latest commercial for Bing, a play on the movie Easy Rider:

In case you might not have been paying attention back in 1969 …

Some 5% of you who responded to our Essentials install experience poll (it’s in the right sidebar) reported problems with a “waitforcatalog” error that caused the installation to fail.  While not a full fix, there is a workaround:

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Dev.live.com, the developer portal for Windows Live, has been completely refreshed with a new look and a new platform for Windows Live Wave 4:

We are going to be diving deep into the new developer tools in the next few …

(UPDATE: just added a poll in the right sidebar: “How was your Essentials install?”, vote please!)

(apologies to those of you who not only saw, but responded to an earlier version of this post that I somehow published …

Francisco Martín García has been feeding his readers information about Windows and Windows Live that has proven to be quite accurate.  Well today, along with the build number for the Essentials beta (15.4.2850.0624), García has posted a timeline for Windows …

The new emoticons are waiting for Beta! (thanks for the heads up, @_tom!)

BTW an old Windows Live Butterfly friend, Mark Noble, put together a little crib sheet of the new emoticons:

We’re still getting used the the …

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours you’ll be able to download Windows Live Essentials “Wave 4” beta, and get your hands on the first new major release for Windows Live in over a year.  In …

We just received notice that the Windows Live Messenger for iPhone post has been updated to announce the inclusion of 17 countries who can now get the new iPhone app:

[Update: 23 June, 2010] Good news: We’re adding the iPhone

Last night we posted a new UI for Bing.com/explore, which weirdly enough has reverted back to the old style, at least for now.  Here’s what we saw last night:

If you notice, there are two new categories that show …

As it turns out, instead of flying to LA for the Bing with Ryan Seacrest show, that annoying “real life” needed a bit of tending to, and so we’re here catching up on all the news of the day coming …