(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 …

Wave 4 is here (!!) and we’re all about saving time here at Liveside, so we’ve compiled a list of all the available languages for the the Wave 4 beta and their associated downloads, both web and full.

English: …

It’s here now, go go go!

Note: if you want to keep using Live Mesh (for now), do not install Live Sync as this will remove Live Mesh.

Warning: “Download Now” is Auto install and will install …

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 …

Yesterday the third IE9 Platform preview got released. This release includes support for the HTML5 <audio>, <video>, and <canvas> elements, the Web Open Font Format (WOFF), and many other new and improved capabilities.

The platform preview installs side by side …

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

As we posted last week, the beta will indeed become public sometime tomorrow. Piero Sierra just announced it on Inside Windows Live:

Tomorrow, hot on the heels of the Hotmail roll-out, the new Windows Live Essentials becomes available

Microsoft has just released version 1.01 of Windows Live Messenger for iPhone, and it’s available for download now from iTunes.  This new app brings Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail, Windows Live social networking and more to the iPhone and iPod …