Keep your life in sync with Windows Live

[z3r010]

Brian Hall, General Manager for the Windows Live Business Group, just posted to Windows Live Wire an exciting overview Windows Live today and how the pieces of Windows Live will fit together to give users a connected experience. He is sharing more details regarding the next “wave” of products and services coming for Windows Live designed to help keep your life in sync.

In September, we talked a bit about Windows Live Wave 3 and released client betas for the Windows Live suite of applications – now known as the Windows Live Essentials. Those betas are still available for you to try out today at download.live.com. The Windows Live Team is working hard to ship the Windows Live Essentials out of Beta soon.

The Windows Live Hotmail Team has also recently rolled out a new update to Windows Live Hotmail as well.

On top of the Windows Live Essentials, we’ll be shipping updated versions of the Windows Live web services.

Windows Live Calendar, Windows Live Spaces, and Windows Live SkyDrive will all be updated.

We’re will also be updating the main homepage for Windows Live. The redesigned homepage for Windows Live will serve as your gateway to the Windows Live services - with a strong emphasis on the What’s New feature which consists of activities from your friends on Windows Live. You will be able to add friends to your “network” and see what they are doing via Personal Message updates from Windows Live Messenger, recent blog posts on their Windows Live Spaces, or photos uploaded to Windows Live.

What’s New also lets you pull in updates from partners such as Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, WordPress, and more. If you have friends on Windows Live pulling in their Twitter updates into their profiles, it will appear in What’s New.

And remember – Windows Live Messenger will now pull in What’s New directly into the client for quick access to what’s going on with your friends on Windows Live. You will be able to access What’s New through Windows Live Toolbar as well.

(Pssst… What’s New is my favorite Windows Live feature!)



A brand new Windows Live Profile page will let you update your Personal Message directly from the web, view your Network, and add “Favorite things” such as books, movies and music. Your friends can leave you Notes on your profile too.

We’re also introducing a new Photos experience for Windows Live utilizing Windows Live SkyDrive as well as Windows Live Groups.



On the mobile side – there will be new points of access to Windows Live on any mobile device with a browser. You will be able to use your mobile phone to access What’s New and see what your friends are doing, update your Personal Message, upload photos to Windows Live, and manage your email and calendar.

I’m pretty excited for what’s being done with Windows Live and I think you will be too. For all the latest and great news and information on Windows Live, you should bookmark and subscribe to the Windows Live Wire blog. You can also follow Windows Live Wire via Twitter as well.

As mentioned at PDC this year – Windows + Windows Live will complete the Windows experience as they work together hand-in-hand.

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[NormCameron]

Interesting post z3r010, I notice you are posting your news items as "Quotes". Would this be you preferred way of seeing these items posted? In view of recent events it would seem to be a way of clearly identifying these as not being the work of the poster.

 

[swarfega]

Cant wait for the final Live releases now. Any idea of release date?

 

[z3r010]

Interesting post z3r010, I notice you are posting your news items as "Quotes". Would this be you preferred way of seeing these items posted? In view of recent events it would seem to be a way of clearly identifying these as not being the work of the poster.

Norm

The posts you see like this one are automated from microsoft rss feeds

 

[NormCameron]

Norm

The posts you see like this one are automated from microsoft rss feeds

Not from within the forum then. Trust a man with 5,329 posts to be way ahead of the pack!

 

[z3r010]

Most of the rss post are made under dmex's name, as this was an easy way of keeping posts coming in while the site was empty .

 

[NormCameron]

Most of the rss post are made under dmex's name, as this was an easy way of keeping posts coming in while the site was empty .

Thanks for the info John.
I see 5411 posts? I gotta get me one of those post counter do-dads. I reckon John McCain would have loved one too!

 

[NormCameron]

Windows Live Wave 3 icons

Delicious new Windows Live Wave 3 icons
November 16th, 2008 by Long Zheng

Yes, the rumors are true, I have a fetish for icons. Earlier this week, Microsoft’s Steve Clayton teased us with a small thumbnail of the new Windows Live Wave 3 product icons and since then I’ve made it a quest of mine to showcase them in their original high-resolution glory. With the help of Windows Live community manager Marcus Schmidt, my quest is complete and my icon hunting skill points have doubled. Here they are for your visual indulgence.

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Delicious new Windows Live Wave 3 icons - istartedsomething

 

[swarfega]

They do look a lot better. Just wish theyd hurry up and release the final version.