Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments

You know what they say: “two heads are better than one”. The same is true for inquisitive users, as the comments to yesterday’s post on the new Windows Live Wave 3 betas showed.

First up was luisfelipe, who found an internal beta email sent to Microsoft employees. This has since been removed, except for the copy I saved – doh. Nice to see all those corpnet links floating around, but not that useful.

Then there was cleitondj, who managed to get up the Wave 3 header on this error message page. Sign-in for yourself if you want to see it in the wild, but remember there’s no access to the actual services yet.

And finally there was BV2312, who managed to get onto the new Spaces homepage, until they took that down too. Luckily PicturePan2 managed to grab some screeenshots showing some of the new default headers that run across all the Windows Live Wave 3 services. He also got linked this image showing the new status indicators that will appear around your display picture on the new Wave 3 header – not yet working though.

  wave 3 glow 

Check out how they are expected to look in Windows Live Wave 3 Messenger too!

Finally, and speaking of Messenger, check out this bonus link sent into our tips hotline by SSP: tips [at] liveside d0t net. It shows the French Windows Live Messenger download page, along with a “Test Soon – Messenger 2009 beta” button. The url it points to doesn’t work yet though, even with view source :(

Keep those tips coming!

Comments

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/BV2312/default.aspx BV2312

    Hahahaha
    did i break a law or something? Sorry Microsoft :>

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/surilamin/default.aspx surilamin

    hehe…I love this community. :)

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/tophtucker/default.aspx tophtucker

    We’re pathetic, hunting around and logging in to find… a newer, spiffier-looking error page, hahaha. But hey, I was as happy as anyone to take a look. :)

    I’ve gotta say, though, I really liked the concept of the orb. There was just… such symmetry… Windows orb, Xbox orb, Office orb, Live orb. No more. :(

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/tophtucker/default.aspx tophtucker

    In other news, Live.com has taken on a decidedly more somber tone today… no hotspots, either….

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/BV2312/default.aspx BV2312

    @Tophtucker
    We love error pages :> especailly when they show more details of the new look

    yeah saw the candle looks scary? LOL

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Chris/default.aspx Chris

    Here’s a bonus one for you guys:

    http://account-beta.live.com/error.aspx?errcode=1048

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/BV2312/default.aspx BV2312

    I think the candle is for 9/11

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/surilamin/default.aspx surilamin

    @ tophtucker, as BV2312 said, the candle is for the September 11th attacks in America.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/tophtucker/default.aspx tophtucker

    @BV2312, surilamin — yup, that was my assumption. Google doesn’t have anything up, but Google Doodles are by nature more lighthearted (and thus maybe not quite so flexible, however much I love them and however charming they may be).

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/calum_2D00_r_2D00_/default.aspx calum-r-

    Chris, thank you very much for the info, screenshots & links! :)

    I do love this community! :P

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/cleitondj/default.aspx cleitondj

    wow! thanks Chris =] =]

    Cleiton.

  • http://luisfos.spaces.live.com luisfelipe

    hahaha…

    While there’s a search engine and security breaks in beta servers we will find it!

    Thanks a lot for all the information I discover here!

    My friends here in Brazil think the new look is much more great than today’s look…

    See you later!!! (in the new errorpage founds!! haha)

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/mrx9898/default.aspx mrx9898

    I quite like this new header. I like it because it’s simple, and elegant. Isn’t there some sort of saying about simplicity being good? Well, I think so anyways :P

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Ryan/default.aspx Ryan

    @mrx9898 “Elegant Simplicity” is a common catchphrase

    And I love the new header!

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/mrx9898/default.aspx mrx9898

    Haha, Yeah, that one :).

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/guruparan/default.aspx guruparan

    http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/comingsoon/en-us/default.htm

    Saw this website…it says “IM within hotmail!!” thats wat i was looking for more than an year!

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/BV2312/default.aspx BV2312
  • http://www.slimshadyplace.nl SSP
  • http://www.liveside.net/members/martijnsch/default.aspx martijnsch

    Does anyone knows wen its come out or is that the problem?

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/SSP/default.aspx SSP

    a bit more:
    a couple of icons:
    http://img.shared.live.com/$live.controls.images/h/strip.png
    bottom of the header (white fading at bottom u only can’t see it with a white background)
    http://img.shared.live.com/$live.controls.images/h/g.png
    official header-background
    http://shared.live.com/pMWZvaQzZmc5VhPJrJQI2vT2VLYkyQMdRKd2JBxW32MRrlIMjmH!3Q/base/14.2.1231/img/_12.jpg
    (i think there’s also the version number in the link 14.2.1231)

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/BV2312/default.aspx BV2312

    Nice job SSP

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/joeale/default.aspx joeale
  • http://volvoshine.spaces.live.com/ volvoshine

    My point of view…

    Companies can try ALL they want to try and stop & lock down info. But if there is info out there someone will find it. The sooner they learn this the better.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/technogran/default.aspx technogran

    Do any of you know whether or not the beta test has begun, and if the testers have been chosen? It seems to have all gone quiet recently!