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Windows Live Essentials Wave 5 will succeed Windows Live Essentials 2011, or Wave 4, which hit general availability at the start of October 2010. Of course, is not out of the ordinary for Microsoft to plan ahead, and even to start shaping up a next major iteration for one of its offerings ahead of the finalization o... |
4 November 2010
04:35 GMT |
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A new contest from Microsoft designed to celebrate the recent launch of Windows Live 2011, asks users to come up with inventions designed to save time.As the name implies, Hotmail's Ultimate Timesaver Competition is focused on the Hotmail component of Windows Live Wave 4, and if anything, the £10,000 gran... |
13 October 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7 loves the Cloud. There’s no other way of saying it. And Microsoft made it this way for a reason. The company has been sharing its three screens and a Cloud vision with the public for a while now, and with the advent of Windows Phone 7, a key piece of the puzzle is now in place. And of course, t... |
12 October 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly close to finalizing the latest iteration of Windows Live Essentials. Of course, the Redmond company has not confirmed this detail, and in fact shared little information on how advanced the development process is, or when it plans to wrap up Windows Live Essentials 2011. A third-party source c... |
31 August 2010
14:05 GMT |
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As of the start of this week the over 300 million mobile devices worldwide featuring Exchange ActiveSync support can be easily connected to Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4, as announced recently. In combination with POP3, Exchange ActiveSync in Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 deliver an excellent alternative to IMAP, ... |
31 August 2010
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering users multiple chances to win free copies of Windows 7 and Office 2010 in the latest two rounds of the Windows Recession Sweepstakes.According to Microsoft’s Ashley Brown, the Redmond company launched Rounds 8 and 9 of the Windows Recession Sweepstakes simultaneously. What this means is ... |
30 August 2010
11:28 GMT |
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A new Beta release of Microsoft’s next generation instant messaging client is currently available for download.Windows Live Messenger 2011 Beta Refresh Build 15.4.3002.0810 was released concomitantly with the rest of the Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh Build 15.4.3001.0809, on August 17th, 2010. The ... |
18 August 2010
06:36 GMT |
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A new Beta development milestone of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 is now available for download from Microsoft. Of course, the new Beta of Windows Live Messenger is by no means alone. Along with it, the software giant has released a fresh preview for the entire Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 suite. At the time of thi... |
17 August 2010
11:47 GMT |
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At the start of August 2010, Microsoft finalized the worldwide rollout of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4, offering the latest version of the service to no less than 350 million users across 220 markets.The company was noting that the transition of customers from the previous version of the email service to Wave 4 had go... |
14 August 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is reportedly gearing up to release another Beta development milestone for Windows Live Messenger Wave 4. Of course, any upcoming testing releases for the next generation of its instant messaging client would have to be accompanied by the rest of the Windows Live Essentials suite. The Redmond company has y... |
12 August 2010
11:14 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to provide a fix to Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 issues reported by customers by the end of this week. The Redmond company did not offer a specific deadline related to the availability of a hotfix designed to resolve problems associated with the latest iteration of its email service, but the c... |
12 August 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Users that are experiencing problems with the new iteration of Windows Live Hotmail will need to first make sure that they are running a browser which is supported by the email client. According to the Redmond company, Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 is designed to play nice with a range of browsers, but the latest itera... |
11 August 2010
07:46 GMT |
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Microsoft has completed the massive upgrade process associated with the introduction of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4. Over 350 million users owning in excess of 1.3 billion inboxes have now been upgraded to Windows Live Wave 4, Microsoft confirmed officially on August 3rd, 2010. My own Windows Live Hotmail account was... |
4 August 2010
02:56 GMT |
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Microsoft is looking to upgrade all of the users of Windows Live Hotmail to the Wave 4 release by the end of this week, per the plans that the company made public the past week. More and more customers with Windows Live Hotmail accounts will notice that they have been upgraded to the latest iteration of the email cli... |
2 August 2010
05:48 GMT |
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With the next generation of its instant messaging client, Microsoft worked to connect users to additional portions of the Cloud, outside of the Windows Live community. But while the focus was placed especially on linking Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 to social networking hot spots, the Redmond company’s own sea... |
30 July 2010
05:11 GMT |
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In a little over a week, Microsoft has managed to double the number of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 accounts that are now live. If in mid-July 2010, the company had only pushed the next generation of its email service to some 50 million people around the world, the software giant is now saying that it has accelerated ... |
28 July 2010
07:12 GMT |
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The next generation of Windows Live Messenger spans beyond the simple role of a rich desktop application and is designed to extend Internet Explorer. Users of Microsoft’s browser that also install the Beta of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 will notice that their copy of Internet Explorer will integrate a new plu... |
28 July 2010
05:56 GMT |
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More streamlined and less cluttered are key characteristics of the new version of the email service Microsoft is rolling out worldwide since mid-June 2010. With the advent of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4, the Redmond company has set up to redesign the service in accordance to the feedback received from users. The foc... |
26 July 2010
10:20 GMT |
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When Microsoft introduced Live Mesh in April 2008, a project developed under the supervision of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, few could have predicted that just a couple of year later the service would be on its death bed. Still, over the course of the past two years, Live Mesh’s evolution was e... |
22 July 2010
05:01 GMT |
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The next generation Windows Live Messenger is susceptible to similar sign in problems as its predecessor, and sometime end users need to take matters into their own hands in order to resolve issues. Especially in scenarios in which problems are on their side, rather than on Microsoft’s servers where the company... |
20 July 2010
11:12 GMT |
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The latest iteration of Microsoft’s email service is currently live for just 50 million accounts worldwide, despite the company having started the rollout process a month ago. However, the software giant says that the slow pace at which it is introducing Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 to customers is perfectly nor... |
15 July 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Microsoft is expanding a very successful security feature from Internet Explorer 8 to protect users of its Cloud services and applications from social engineering attacks and account abuse. Essentially, the Redmond company announced the introduction of SmartScreen for URLs for its Windows Live Wave 4 offerings. As a ... |
7 July 2010
07:49 GMT |
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As a part of the evolution to Windows Live Wave 4, Microsoft is also rolling out a new version of a service designed to offer users free storage space in the Cloud. Windows Live SkyDrive, a free storage service from the Redmond company, is moving forward to Wave 4 along with the rest of the clients and services inclu... |
6 July 2010
10:35 GMT |
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Unveiled a few weeks ago, the first public Beta for Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 continues to be available for download, alongside the rest of the rich clients included in the suite. Microsoft is offering Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 to early adopters, looking for feedback on the applications packaged in the suite... |
6 July 2010
09:04 GMT |
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iPhone and iPod Touch users have not hesitated in the least to warm up to Microsoft’s instant messaging client tailored specifically to their devices. According to information from the Redmond company, the Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone and iPod Touch had already jumped over the 1 million downloads limit... |
1 July 2010
06:38 GMT |
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Despite being a key part of the Windows Live Essentials package, Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 has been treated somewhat differently, and moved to a more prominent position than the rest of the suite. The application is after all the center of the world’s largest instant messaging community, and the recipient o... |
25 June 2010
12:06 GMT |
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The latest iteration of Microsoft’s email client sports a range of enhancements, from new features to performance improvements and to integration with major social networks worldwide. But elements of the evolution of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 are also connected to Microsoft Silverlight, a technology the Redmo... |
24 June 2010
07:05 GMT |
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The first Beta of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 is starting to roll out to users worldwide, as today, June 24th, 2010, marks the availability deadline for the first public testing milestone. As I type this, users in the Nederlands are the first in line to get the Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta bits, which they ... |
24 June 2010
04:15 GMT |
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The rich clients and services that make up the next generation of the Windows Live suite have been bulletproofed against security threats using the same strategy that proved a success for major Microsoft software products such as Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Essentially, the Redmond company applied the Security Devel... |
18 June 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Following the release of its next-generation instant messaging client and the upcoming natural user interface (NUI) device for its gaming console, Microsoft also plans to bridge the two technologies together. The Redmond company premiered the Kinect for Xbox 360, formerly codenamed “Project Natal” at the ... |
16 June 2010
07:44 GMT |
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Next time you sign in to your Windows Live Hotmail account, you could be welcomed by the Wave 4 release of Microsoft’s free email service. Mike Schackwitz, program manager, Windows Live Hotmail team, confirmed officially that the Redmond company had started rolling out Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 to customers a... |
15 June 2010
09:33 GMT |
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Microsoft’s next-generation email service will do away with as much inbox clutter as possible. In addition to blocking 5.5 billion spam messages every day, and introducing new features such as Sweep to help customers filter out unwanted emails, the Redmond company has announced new optimization measures designe... |
14 June 2010
06:40 GMT |
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With the advent of the first Beta of Windows Live Wave 4, Microsoft will no longer offer customers two overlapping synchronization services. In the past, users that needed to synchronize multiple computers and devices could opt for either Windows Live Sync or Live Mesh. This will no longer be the case after Microsoft... |
11 June 2010
10:18 GMT |
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With the first public Beta of Windows Live Wave 4 now just a few weeks away (most probably out by the end of June 2010), Microsoft has offered online previews of Hotmail, Messenger and the Essentials suite. And with each preview that went live, the Redmond company unveiled new comparisons of its own Windows Live offe... |
7 June 2010
10:39 GMT |
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It’s not uncommon for Microsoft products and projects to overlap in certain areas, sometimes leaving end users perplexed. With the upcoming Beta development milestone for Windows Live Wave 4, the Redmond company will fold Live Mesh, a multi-platform synchronization service, into Windows Live Sync. The Redmond c... |
7 June 2010
07:02 GMT |
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In the coming weeks, Microsoft will release a testing preview of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 to the public. “Get ready – it’s all coming your way soon!” is the message from the software giant. “We’re excited about the new Essentials and how we’re bringing together the powe... |
5 June 2010
06:53 GMT |
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At the end of May 2010, it became clear that Microsoft was on the verge of unveiling the last part of the Windows Live Wave 4 evolution, which it was still keeping under wraps. After delivering official details on Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 and Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4, it is now the turn of Windows Live Essent... |
3 June 2010
10:22 GMT |
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The evolution of Windows Live Hotmail to the Wave 4 release brings to the table a variety of enhancements, with security being a top priority for Microsoft. In May 2010, the Redmond company made public the improvements introduced to the next iteration of its email service that kick up a notch Hotmail’s spam-fig... |
2 June 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Because of the evolution of Windows Live Messenger with the advent of the Wave 4 release, the next iteration of Microsoft’s instant messaging client will no longer feature one-way webcam functionality. At the same time, Microsoft recently released an update, which it called a minor refresh, for Windows Live Mes... |
24 May 2010
12:31 GMT |
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Spam is a plague for which a panacea has yet to be developed, even by Microsoft, although the company’s Co-founder, Bill Gates, was promising in 2004 that it would take another couple of years at best to eradicate the problem altogether. Providers of email services continue to fight the flood of unwanted emails... |
21 May 2010
09:07 GMT |
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Microsoft offered a sneak peek at the next iteration of Windows Live Hotmail today, launching the new Hotmail Preview website concomitantly. With the array of new features planned for the next major version of Hotmail, it is obvious that the Redmond company is making no secret of the fact that it has worked to delive... |
18 May 2010
11:50 GMT |
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With the next iteration of its email service, Microsoft has set to re-invent Hotmail. Delivering what is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive overhauling to Windows Live Hotmail in the past four years, the Redmond company outlined the changes coming, including the evolution of the inbox, new productivity and shar... |
18 May 2010
03:39 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to remain mum on the availability deadline of the first Beta development milestone of Windows Live Wave 4. Various third-party sources, as well as indications and leaks from the Redmond company are pointing to June 2010 for a possible release date for Windows Live Wave 4 Beta, but, according to a ... |
14 May 2010
10:18 GMT |
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Microsoft has released what it is referring to as the last planned update for Windows Live Essentials Wave 3, as it is gearing up to shift the focus entirely to Wave 4 releases. In this regard, customers running Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 clients, such as Windows Live Messenger 2009, can now deploy a minor refres... |
13 May 2010
08:20 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download a new version of Windows Live Messenger. The release can be grabbed either as a standalone download, or through the company’s update mechanism, and is an integral part of a refresh to select items from the line-up of clients that are being offered to users packaged as W... |
13 May 2010
03:28 GMT |
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Microsoft is making no secret of the fact that the latest release of Windows Live will be tailored to Windows 7 and Windows Vista, while not supporting Windows XP at all. The Redmond company’s position is of course that the operating system released back in 2001 is obsolete, despite the Service Pack 2 and Servi... |
11 May 2010
11:24 GMT |
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While Microsoft will still not officially make public the development and release schedule for Windows Live Wave 4, the company’s very own leaks point to June 2010 for the next major milestone for the successor of Wave 3. Approximately a week ago, I was telling you that Microsoft France revealed Windows Live Me... |
10 May 2010
12:36 GMT |
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In less than two months, Microsoft will make available for download the first public development milestone of the next major iteration of Windows Live Messenger. Although the Redmond company has yet to announce the official availability deadline, fact is that it managed to leak the release date. According to Microsof... |
4 May 2010
03:28 GMT |
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Although there are no Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 Beta bits available for download at this point in time, the Preview website made available by Microsoft delivers more than enough details on the upcoming release of WLM to at least give a taste of what’s coming. One piece of information on the site is the Wind... |
30 April 2010
11:26 GMT |
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While Microsoft did broaden the limited Beta testing program for the next iteration of Windows Live Messenger, a public development milestone is yet to be offered, although it is on the proverbial horizon. Ori Amiga, principal program manager partner program for Windows Live, reiterated today the promise that the Red... |
29 April 2010
12:40 GMT |
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