Windows Live Essentials Beta due for release

Phone Man · 24 Jun 2010

Joan Archer said:

I don't use Messenger so wouldn't want that, I just have Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mail.

I'll probably wait until it's final as the only one I use on a regular basis is Live Mail and that's working OK so there's no rush to update it.:)

I use the same programs and the Beta has changed to a Ribbon interface and it takes some playing to find everything. In Mail, no more "SYNC" button, its back to "Send/Receive"

Jim

bigcitycat · 24 Jun 2010

Okay it looks like Live Sync only offers two gigs of storage on Skydrive. Skydrive offers 25gigs but automatic Syncing is only two gigs. Still not bad.

BCXtreme · 24 Jun 2010

Phone Man said:

Joan Archer said:

I don't use Messenger so wouldn't want that, I just have Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mail.

I'll probably wait until it's final as the only one I use on a regular basis is Live Mail and that's working OK so there's no rush to update it.:)

I use the same programs and the Beta has changed to a Ribbon interface and it takes some playing to find everything. In Mail, no more "SYNC" button, its back to "Send/Receive"

Jim

Once again MS confirms that they are going with the ribbon. Kinda glad they ditched the "SYNC" thing though and went back to the age-old "Send/Receive".

twdawson · 24 Jun 2010

No way to just install one program so i will wait, I tried to install it but it crashed half way through.

Not ready for prime time yet.

Dark Nova Gamer · 24 Jun 2010

twdawson said:

No way to just install one program so i will wait, I tried to install it but it crashed half way through.

Not ready for prime time yet.

Did you try installing the one on the side of that page?

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Dark Nova Gamer · 24 Jun 2010

Anyone else having issues connecting to a video call? I keep getting this everytime;

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Your call wasn't connected. Please try again. (Error: 0x8ac70907)
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Google and Bing searches returned zero results.

v0id · 24 Jun 2010

I can't install this, i am geting this error at end of installatin: 0x80040601

Anyone know how to fix that?

burtie · 24 Jun 2010

So far so good...love the new look, and seems to run much faster and smooth. Was not to fussed on the new look messenger but just found a compact view button that makes it look more like the old version. Mail and photo gallery are excellent and seem to have speeded up a lot :)

burtie · 24 Jun 2010

WOW its getting better...I am finding some great features

Love the way photo gallery recognises peoples faces for easy tagging and also love the new facebook integration to messenger :)

Kari · 24 Jun 2010

I have to say I really like the new looks and functionality of Windows Live Mail. It looks and acts like a real email client.