Windows Live Essentials Beta due for release

[SinRival]

Oh and those who have a netbook, be unhappy as the huge option box doesn't scroll or anything so "Enter and using arrows keys" Is the only way to go.

You'd think they'd want to make us happy.. >.> We bought there software they need to do something for us too.

 

[BCXtreme]

Incidentally, does anyone know how stationery works in the Live Mail Beta?

 

[Tinkerdog]

In the Photo Gallery, when you group pics by Face Recognition (in the batch processing part), sometimes it looses the name of the person (you come back the next day and start up the PC, resume working on this, and you see some people in the name tags are gone!).

And when you merge two people (because of mispelled names or whatnot), it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

Not ready for primetime yet !

 

[BCXtreme]

In the Photo Gallery, when you group pics by Face Recognition (in the batch processing part), sometimes it looses the name of the person (you come back the next day and start up the PC, resume working on this, and you see some people in the name tags are gone!).

And when you merge two people (because of mispelled names or whatnot), it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

Not ready for primetime yet !

Which is why it's a public beta, NOT a general release.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

In the Photo Gallery, when you group pics by Face Recognition (in the batch processing part), sometimes it looses the name of the person (you come back the next day and start up the PC, resume working on this, and you see some people in the name tags are gone!).

And when you merge two people (because of mispelled names or whatnot), it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

Not ready for primetime yet !

Its a beta for a reason, that reason being they didn't feel it was ready to be released as a final product. You should submit feedback regarding any bugs/quirks you find with Windows Live Essentials.

 

[NoN]

In the Photo Gallery, when you group pics by Face Recognition (in the batch processing part), sometimes it looses the name of the person (you come back the next day and start up the PC, resume working on this, and you see some people in the name tags are gone!).

And when you merge two people (because of mispelled names or whatnot), it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

Not ready for primetime yet !

Its a beta for a reason, that reason being they didn't feel it was ready to be released as a final product. You should submit feedback regarding any bugs/quirks you find with Windows Live Essentials.

Got their official mail today...Downloaded it though that was the final release, but it stayed at beta stage...Went smooth install and the first thing i saw was the messenger doesn't stay stuck in the taskbar when closed! Windows Live Mail Beta launch 3 seconds faster....appreciate the Calendar but it makes the windows reading mails smaller!

Buttons are HUGE!

 

[Night Hawk]

During the brief install here it was also found a bit awkward with the inflexible window size which lists all contact catagories and any Live groups. The one thing you can do for those planning to keep this release on is keep submitting some feedback of any bugs or suggestions for improvement.

 

[NoN]

During the brief install here it was also found a bit awkward with the inflexible window size which lists all contact catagories and any Live groups. The one thing you can do for those planning to keep this release on is keep submitting some feedback of any bugs or suggestions for improvement.

Do not have a feedback button...or is it hidding somewhere?

I'm not against telling them for those Huge buttons (even if i can reduce the ribbon), I do much respect legacy blinds, but as far as i know i'm 100% on both:sarc:

 

[Night Hawk]

I wasn't checking on the check box for helping improve the Live experience where anonymous feedback is sent during the installation unfortunately due to suddenly noticing an icon on the taskbar gone and other problems while the beta did seem to function normally for what it was.

The oversize buttons and lack of ability to resize the contacts window saw that removed as well as the other programs returned with a system image. Having just finished setting a temp install of Vista however it won't to have a second look since I may end up wiping that drive again anyways!

 

[Ojaser6]

Rats! Doesn't support XP... I think.

Whenever I run the installer, something pops up saying that it's not a compatible 32 bit application. What the heck...

Is this a bug, or is it just not supporting XP?

 

[s31]

it clearly says the beta is for vista/7 only, not sure if the final release will support xp anyway, not going to be supported in few years..

 

[swarfega]

I think they said this version wasnt going to support XP. XP is dead anyway.

 

[Kari]

Rats! Doesn't support XP... I think.

Whenever I run the installer, something pops up saying that it's not a compatible 32 bit application. What the heck...

Is this a bug, or is it just not supporting XP?

No, XP is not supported. Live Beta requires Seven or Vista, as told here: Windows Live Essentials beta

 

[NoN]

Well, back to previous version! WLMB is not stable at all, freezing all the time when surfing inside...

 

[nanonet]

Incidentally, does anyone know how stationery works in the Live Mail Beta?

Viewing html stationery in WLM beta is fine, no problem, the reading pane is a lot smaller, which is a nuisance.

As for sending html stationery that is a NO NO as WLM Beta puts a nasty line round the background tiles, so rendering the html stationery ugly, so impossible to send to others, completely ruins them. I have uninstalled the Beta WLM and re installed the previous version, which works fine for Stationery.

Shirley

 

[G2gCya]

Rats! Doesn't support XP... I think.

Whenever I run the installer, something pops up saying that it's not a compatible 32 bit application. What the heck...

Is this a bug, or is it just not supporting XP?

No, XP is not supported. Live Beta requires Seven or Vista, as told here: Windows Live Essentials beta

It's obvious that MS does not want to support XP anymore, someday they will force u to upgrade to new msn.

 

[Gornot]

Downloaded it and gave it a try, then returned to the newest stable release.
I have to say that I love it, and am very excited about it.
Though I see this as an attempt from Microsoft to "push" people to use Windows Live just like they'd use Facebook, Twitter and similar social networking solutions (because of the new features inside Messenger, for example); the privacy and account settings have been reworked and are more complicated than ever, lol; it's good that they're trying to bring more than just an IM solution (mostly talking about Mesenger here, as it got the most new features). Sharing pictures, connecting services, video chats, everything has been worked out and is better than before, even in this beta.
It's still buggy as hell and most of the options are either hidden or scattered, but hey, it's just a beta, the new look is yet to come.
I saw somewhere on YouTube a preview of WLM 2011, if someone wants it, I can post the link

(And yes, I am back after 4 months, lol)

 

[Pieloi]

I have to wait for unofficial patches/mods to come out, which remove god awful features.
Or maybe plus, which add a couple of useful features, and by the looks of it, its gonna take them a while to catch up with this when its released...

Any ideas of a release date ? If non, I'll just say "5 months". Makes me surprised when it comes earlier.

Edit, guy(s) at apatch have released a temp patch, for the beta already, removes a few ads, thats it.
>Can't find out how to change the name, had to change the account details instead, from Bob Bobbafisk to Eloi.

>ARGH THEY CHANGED THE DAMN SMILIES !

 

[swarfega]

They have stated that plus wont be updated until Windows Live is fully released.

 

[Tinkerdog]

In the Photo Gallery, when you group pics by Face Recognition (in the batch processing part), sometimes it looses the name of the person (you come back the next day and start up the PC, resume working on this, and you see some people in the name tags are gone!).

And when you merge two people (because of mispelled names or whatnot), it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

Not ready for primetime yet !

Which is why it's a public beta, NOT a general release.

Did I say it was a general release? I just pointed out that is was not ready at this point, at all.

Too many bugs.