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Windows Live Profile Wave 4: LinkedIn to become a Connected Service, and display names to go away

Windows Live ProfileToday on the Inside Windows Live team blog Omar Shahine (Principal Lead Program Manager for Windows Live) made a blog post about the new Windows Live Profile with particular emphasis to changes made to privacy control. We covered the new

Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 upgrade causing calendars and events to disappear?

Earlier this month, one of my Windows Live accounts started to encounter some problems, as none of my calendars and events would like to load in Windows Live Calendar. Not only this, but each time I start up my Windows …

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 begins worldwide roll-out

Windows Live HotmailAccording to a blog post at the official Brazilian Windows blog, Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 starts rolling out today to the 47 million Hotmail users worldwide. (Thanks for the tip Anderson C.!) Here’s what the translated version of …

Windows Phone 7 to add Flash 10.1 support?

While Microsoft had denied the fact that the v1 release of their new Windows Phone 7 operating system will support Adobe Flash, it seems like people might be up for a great surprise. Posted on an Adobe Labs website for

Wave 4: Windows Live Service Status

So ever since the MSN Messenger days, Microsoft had always provided a page to allow users to check the current service status for the .NET Messenger Service, despite this page never really updating even during the rare widespread outages we …

Windows Live Mobile website updated to Wave 4

Windows Live Mobile logoSeems like the first Windows Live Online Service to be updated to Wave 4 is Windows Live Mobile. If you visit http://mobile.live.com using your PC’s web browser today, you would’ve noticed that the header had been upgraded to the new …

Explore Windows Live – and try out the new Web Messenger and Wave 4 themes!

Windows Live Contacts logoMicrosoft has put up a new Windows Live overview website at http://explore.live.com that has just gone live today. On the website you’ll find some information about the new Windows Live Wave 4, categorised into Hotmail, Messenger, Essentials, SkyDrive, Mobile, and …

Official Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Launch Video

Looks like this weekend is full of Wave 4 news. Thanks to a tip from Chrilo, and after a bit of trial-and-error on our end, we discovered the following Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 launch video from the http://windowslivepreview.com/essentials

Wave 4: Windows Live Photos to get video playback support, improved slideshow features, and more!

Windows Live Photos logoA few weeks ago we showed you what’s coming in the new Windows Live Office. Today thanks to a recent blog post by Technogran, we’re able to give you a glimpse of its sister-service, Windows Live Photos, which …

Wave 4: Windows Live Sync – A First Look

Window Live SyncLast week we were fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the Windows Live Essentials Preview website (http://windowslivepreview.com/essentials) as it briefly went online before it got locked out to the public again. We showed you the two Photo