Microsoft has begun sharing more information on Windows Live Essentials Wave 4. In addition to Messenger, the company is now previewing Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and Sync.
Full Story: Microsoft unveils Windows Live Essentials Wave 4
This looks good. I had to dump Live mail because my iPhone wouldn't sync contacts with it. I know that is Apple being...well Apple, but still not real useful for me. I do like the fact that MS allows you download it and use it for free!
Paul Thurrott as www.winsupersite.com has now written a fairly large review of Live Essentials Wave 4 over at http://www.winsupersite.com/live/wlwave4.asp
Looks pretty good to me!!
yeah but
Note: At the time of this writing, Windows Live Essentials wave 4 is in early beta and does not exhibit the performance or stability that one would expect from a final, shipping product.
So hopefully any performance and reliability issues will be sorted by the time it's released
All the programs look great, but I love what they've done with Photo Gallery and Sync. It's about time Sync got a real UI, rather than being a context menu with settings...
They used "Kitchen-PC" as a PC example for it. Ever since I've seen them doing that, like in the Windows setup for choosing a PC name and Kitchen-PC was an example, I've always thought "Who has a PC setup purely in the kitchen?".
Well someone must have a need for a Kitchen Sync
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I don't think they will release UNTIL it is stable and has decent performance.