Weekend glimpses of Wave 4, when will it be released? (take our poll!)

By Kip Kniskern on February 21, 2010 6:55 AM

10 comments

In case you missed it over the weekend, our LiveSide colleagues have been busy at work tracking down all the latest Wave 4 news and rumors, very busy in fact. We reported on some new (apparently internal promotional) screenshots of Messenger showing up in the blogs, showing a collapsible “social pane”, a new friends view, some new emoticons, and hints at geo-tagging and video messaging integration. MessengerAdictos had the first screenshots we showed you, and then CNBeta.com posted some more. Shortly after that, our resident Windows Live Writer guru spotted some more screenshots coming from CNBeta, this time of the new Writer ribbon, looking much more polished than when we first spotted it back in September.

Not to be outdone, LiveSino.net found some more Writer screenshots:

…and a new one of Windows Live Photo Gallery showing the ribbon over there, too:

So when can we dispense with the suspense and get our hands on Wave 4? Digital Inspiration is putting a tweet and the Writer screenshots together and hoping for a May 1st release at WordCamp SF, which may be as good a guess as any, but we kind of doubt that Essentials would debut at a WordPress conference (ahem, Web 2.0 Expo is only 2 days later). Or maybe Essentials will bypass the big conferences altogether, who knows. Your guess is as good as ours at this point, take our poll (in the sidebar on www.LiveSide.net) and give us your best guess!

Posted in News | Tags: Messenger, Photo Gallery, ribbon, Social Network, Wave 4, Writer

Comments

tom2222

So far, so unexciting.

Really hope they show up with something way better than the leaked screenshots. One would hope that other great work being done at MSFT will rub off on these underachievers or that Sinofsky will clean house.

Hoping for the best, trained by Windows Live to expect the worst.
technogran

I know this. It’s well overdue! It’s been well over a year since we all got our hands on Wave 3. It’s far too long a gap between updates. Meanwhile MS’s competitors have marched passed them, always leaving them to play ‘catch up’ with features (such a geo-tagging of photos etc)
Chris

I have a felling that this will be a major release, and one of the best since, well wave 1.
http://twitter.com/smanofsteel76 Steve

I am so sick of waiting for Microsoft to improve its products. Congratulations Microsoft, you have the slowest browser and the Windows Live stuff hasn’t been updated since 2008 and it was missing key features back then. I personally don’t care anymore when it gets released because I’ve moved on to Google Chrome and use it for everything. The screenshots look great if the programs were released in 2007, but now Google has set the standards high for software, especially web browsers. Good Luck Microsoft!

Chris

The only thing google is good at is Search and maps. everything else sucks, including their buggy and bloated android OS

http://twitter.com/smanofsteel76 Steve

You forgot about Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chrome, Google Reader, Blogger, and Google Buzz, all are superior to their Microsoft counterparts. Google also takes the time to update and add improvements to their products. Microsoft hasn’t updated anything since 2008 except Windows 7 and Bing. Its no wonder they are losing the battle against Google. Who wants to use outdated and inferior products? I don’t. I am sick of waiting for Microsoft!

http://www.facebook.com/khris Khristopher Ranger

All I know is that it needs to hurry up. I’m hoping within the next two weeks a public beta will start.

Chris

I want them to take their time. After all we want a
stable product right?

livewindows

it doesn’t matter if it’s Wave 4, or 5, or 10 (plus, what’s the deal with calling these releases as Waves? This is a major mistake by Microsoft -I’m sure many product teams within Windows Live have their stuff ready to go 6-9 months ago and are just waiting for other teams to finish up their crap so that MS can package these things into a “Wave” release. The whole point of having web applications is that you can release them early and often… and not having to package them into “waves”!

The only successful product in the entire Windows Live lineup is Messenger.

Chris

a “wave” is a series, or generation. you want them to rush it? Have a buggy peace of software?

perhaps wave 4 is going to be a major one? thats why its taking so long

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