Essentials Wave 4: First Impressions?

(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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
June 25th, 2010 at 8:50 am

Windows Live Wave 4: Direct Download Links

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: …

By ScottIsAFool in News
June 24th, 2010 at 8:40 pm

Windows Live Essentials Beta: it’s here!

It’s here now, go go go!

Download Beta Now

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 …

By Sunshine in News
June 24th, 2010 at 8:37 pm

Windows Live Essentials 2011: here comes the marketing push!

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 24th, 2010 at 7:46 pm

Windows Live Wave 4: The New Emoticons

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:

WLM-Emoticon-Reference (2)

We’re still getting used the the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 24th, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Third IE9 Platform Preview Available

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.
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The platform preview installs side by side …

By Sunshine in News
June 24th, 2010 at 10:55 am

5 things you’re going to like about Wave 4 (and 3 whiny complaints)

betadownloadlogoIf 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 …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 24th, 2010 at 8:36 am

Windows Live Messenger for iPhone now available for 17 countries

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

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By Kip Kniskern in News
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:56 pm

2 New Bing categories to explore–Finance and University

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:

bingsummer2-explore

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

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:48 pm

Windows Live Messenger for iPhone, an experience

As none of us actually own an iPhone, it was rather problematic to actually do any kind of post on the new Messenger app for iPhone other than the PR stuff that’s floating around, so we’ve asked Jas Dhaliwal if

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By ScottIsAFool in Mobile
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:34 am
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