Microsoft officials announced plans to axe Windows Live Spaces, the blogging platform that has been part of Windows Live, earlier this week. For those (like me) who don't want to see this view, a small button in the upper right corner of Messenger allows you to go back to the traditional small-panel Messenger view. The most sweeping changes, at least from a user-interface perspective, among the WLE 2011 products is the new Windows Live Messenger, which Microsoft has made look and feel like Facebook with its exposed activity streams. The new Hotmail was rolled out in August, but has continued to get new features and functionality sporadically in the weeks since then. Microsoft has been testing "Wave 4" Windows Live services for months.
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There are other Windows Live properties that are not part of the suite, including Hotmail and SkyDrive, which are Web services that do not install software on users' machines. The products in the Essentials suite are a hybrid of software and services. Users can opt to install the suite in its entirety or to choose only certain elements (using the custom-install option from the unified installer).
#MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2011 MOVIE#
The WLE 2011 suite includes new versions of Photo Gallery, Mail, Movie Maker, Messenger, Writer (a blogging tool), Family Safety (parental controls), Live Mesh (the PC-sync tool formerly known as Live Sync), the Toolbar, Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, Office Live Add-in and Silverlight. Update: Here's t he download link for the final WLE 2011 bits. Microsoft isn't confirming the date/time (to me, at least), but I'm inclined to believe what I'm hearing/reading.
On September 30, Microsoft is expected to make available for download the final version of "Wave 4" of its Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite of Windows add-ons.Ī couple of enthusiast sites are reporting the final bits should be downloadable around 1 pm ET today.
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