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Microsoft has updated its Windows Live Essentials 2011, offering users better performance and enhanced service quality, but also security improvements such as SSL support. I have already told you earlier today about the refreshes introduced to Windows Live Messenger 2011 and Windows Live Mail 2011, but the fact of t... |
7 July 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Softpedia readers might already be familiar with Microsoft’s “To the Cloud” marketing push which involved some rather humorous video advertisements. For those users that are yet to come across the ads mentioned above, make sure to check out this article from the first half of December 2010 (video... |
3 March 2011
08:30 GMT |
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While Live Mesh Beta has entered in its final month of life, with Microsoft planning to pull the plug on March 31st, 2011, the alternative offered by the company, Windows Live Mesh is simply thriving. Windows Live Mesh was born from the need to deliver a bit more coherence to the software giant’s Cloud synchro... |
2 March 2011
06:58 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to serve a mandatory update to users running Windows Live Messenger as well as additional Windows Live Essentials components, but the company is not talking about the latest iteration of the instant messaging client or the Essentials suite. Instead, the software giant will refresh only what... |
18 January 2011
02:41 GMT |
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A new online destination promises to be a source of downloadable enhancements for three components of the Windows Live Essentials suite. Microsoft announced the launch of the Windows Live plug-ins website on December 15th, revealing that the site is designed to grow into a hub for Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows... |
16 December 2010
10:23 GMT |
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A fix has been provided by Microsoft for customers that have come across issues with Windows Live Photo Gallery in Windows 7. It appears that a range of users have been reporting problems to the Redmond company related to the photo viewing components of the Windows Live Essentials suite. According to the software g... |
14 December 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Windows Live Messenger 2011 is not the only part of Windows Live Essentials that users need to upgrade. Fact is that Microsoft has released new versions of all of the suite’s components save just a couple. Windows Live Essentials 2011 Build 15.4.3508.1109 is now available for download, at just two months after... |
2 December 2010
12:25 GMT |
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has released new versions of Office 2008 and Office 2004 for Mac, improving the security of the software. Versions 11.5.9 and 12.2.5 of Office 2004 and Office 2008, respectively, are free to download for existing users of Microsoft’s office suite of applications. “This... |
9 June 2010
06:43 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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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 wait for Windows Live Wave 4 is almost over. According to various third-party sources, Microsoft is gearing up to release both Windows Live services and clients next month. The Redmond company has yet to confirm officially June 2010 releases for Windows Live Wave 4, but numerous leaks from the software giant indi... |
31 May 2010
06:13 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 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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A preview Build of Windows Live Messenger 2010/Wave 4 has been leaked and is available for download in the wild together with the entire collection of clients included in the next iteration of Windows Live Essentials suite. According to various third-party sources, Build 15.2.2585.0122 of Windows Live Essentials Wave... |
25 March 2010
12:41 GMT |
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According to information from a leaked roadmap of the next iteration of Windows Live Essentials, Windows Live Messenger Wave 4/2010 is up to Build 15.3.2649.311. Francisco Martín Garcia, Microsoft Active Professional 2010, Microsoft tester, has published the development process timeline of Windows Live Essent... |
22 March 2010
12:35 GMT |
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Even as early as August 2009, Microsoft started delivering hints of the next iteration of Windows Live applications and services. At that time, the company motivated that it was introducing a Live Services update and killing Live Framework Community Technology Preview (Services, SDK & Tools) in the process as a part ... |
5 October 2009
08:50 GMT |
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The past week, Microsoft released a collection of updates for all the clients under the Windows Live Essentials brand umbrella but failed to provide details on what the refreshes brought to the table. It took the Windows Live mail team a couple of days to make public the information related to the introduction of Win... |
24 August 2009
12:01 GMT |
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An update for Microsoft’s blogging client is now available for download, with the company making little effort to bring the refresh to the public, so far. Users leveraging Windows Live Writer in order to blog on Windows Live, Wordpress or any other similar service, now have an upgrade available designed to take... |
19 August 2009
12:03 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering an update for the application that was designed to be the replacement of the default photo viewing client in Windows Vista. As an integral part of a suite of refreshes, the Redmond company has kicked Windows Live Photo Gallery 2009 up a notch. Users can now download Windows Live Photo Gallery 20... |
19 August 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Microsoft is pushing the Wave 3 release of Windows Live components to the next level with the introduction of updates affecting the entire gamma of applications designed to bridge Windows and the Cloud. The email client that is since the start of 2009 an integral part of the Windows Live Essentials package will be bu... |
19 August 2009
07:57 GMT |
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UPDATE: Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) 14.0.8089.726 Automatic Upgrades MandatoryAn upgrade for the latest iteration of Microsoft’s instant messaging client is now available for download. The evolution of Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) will take the application all the way to version 14.0.8089.726. The Re... |
19 August 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Want to keep using Windows Live Movie Maker? Then you will need to update by the end of this month. At the start of January 2009, Microsoft released to web the Windows Live Essentials collection of software designed to bridge the Windows client with the Cloud. Although the vast majority of clients included in the Ess... |
10 June 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Windows Live Messenger is, as a general rule, available for free to all users worldwide. But of course that there are the proverbial exceptions to every rule. And Microsoft's instant messaging client is an illustrative example in this context. This because the Redmond company has instituted Windows Live Messenge... |
21 May 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has tweaked the photo email slide show feature associated with its free email client under the Windows Live brand umbrella. The Redmond company indicated that it had introduced an update designed to take the online slide show component one step further. Essentially, focus was placed on making better use of ... |
19 May 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Having ripped out traditional components from Windows 7 completely, including the default email, photo viewing, and instant messaging clients, Microsoft is still advertising Windows Live and the next iteration of the Windows client as nothing short of a pair. Back in 2007, applications such as Windows Mail, Windows M... |
13 March 2009
14:21 GMT |
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During the opening keynote address at the 2009 International Consumers Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced a new partnership with Dell, focused on Windows Live. Ballmer indicated that the final Builds of Windows Live Essentials components (namely Wave 3)... |
9 January 2009
07:58 GMT |
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Microsoft announced at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas that it had finalized the development of Windows Live Essentials. Moving forward with he development of the Windows client, the company has stripped away some of the traditional default components of the operating system, ... |
8 January 2009
11:21 GMT |
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The final version of Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) is available for download. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced during the opening keynote address at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas that Microsoft had wrapped up the development of Windows Live Essentials, a suite... |
8 January 2009
09:23 GMT |
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There are few still remembering that talk of Windows Live Essentials debuted all the way back in 2006, even before Windows Vista was released to manufacturing and over a year ahead of Windows Live Wave 2, which introduced the centralized Installer for all Windows Live desktop clients. And yet, only with Windows 7 and... |
20 December 2008
06:59 GMT |
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On the path to Wave 3, the Windows Live collection of services and applications debuted into Beta earlier this year, and has been crawling toward RTW ever since. As of December 15, 2008, Windows Live made yet another step forward, but still managed not to lose the Beta tag. At the start of this week, Microsoft introd... |
16 December 2008
14:41 GMT |
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With the evolution of Windows Live suite of applications and services and the Windows client, Microsoft managed to produce the intersection of its visions. The strategy is, of course, to make Windows reach into the Cloud. And this will become obvious with the availability of Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3. B... |
13 November 2008
15:51 GMT |
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