Creative new names for the Windows Live Wave 4 themes, mobile experience to get themes support

Last week we showed you some of the newest themes coming in the next version of Windows Live. Unfortunately at that stage we were only able to get hold of the temporary placeholder names for each of the new themes. Of course, we’ve always known that they weren’t going to be the final name – after all, Microsoft would never name them “Characters1”! Good news is that the actual names we’ve discovered this week for these themes seems to sound quite creative and reflects the personality of each of the new themes. Here’s a table of the themes and the comparison of the original names with their actual names:

Theme Header Original Name Actual Name
Metalwork Metalwork Metalwork
Hostas Palmleaf Hostas
Zune heart Valentina Zune heart
Dark hearts Characters1 Dark hearts
Misty Characters2 Misty
Chrysanthemums Characters3 Chrysanthemums
Pyschedelic Characters4 Psychedelic
Spore Characters5 Spore
Watercolor Characters6 Watercolor
Storybook Characters7 Storybook
Sweet monsters Characters8 Sweet monsters
Mounce Characters9 Bounce
Punga Characters10 Punga
Bird man Characters11 Bird man
Sky turtle Characters12 Sky turtle

In a related news, recall we showed you earlier this year that Windows Live Wave 4 will provide users with a much better mobile experience. It now seems like when you browse through Windows Live web services on your mobile devices, these themes will also show up as part of the mobile experience (provided you are signed in), giving you a consistent experience across the PC and the mobile. Quite impressive I must say!

Comments

  • Bryguy

    I think they should still stick with dynamic themes and not rip off the W7 wallpapers.

    • Andrew

      They should have both dynamic themes and these. Right now there isn’t enough choice.

  • Chris

    I love the country dynamic theme

    all these themes suck expect the metal work

  • technogran

    I don’t like any of them so I have done some of my own. See them all here at http://techno-granny.blogspot.com

  • Bryguy

    So we can skin Messenger to our heart’s custom content, but not Live Home, Mail, etc?
    I’m excited about Wave 4, but everything about it makes me like the simplicity of Wave 3 better. Oh well, better wait and see.

  • JohnCz

    I checked Microsoft Blog about what they have planned for SXSW (see link). Looks like no news regarding Wave 4. Are there any MVPs here? Will there be a beta or is Wave 4 going straight to rtw?

    http://blogs.technet.com/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/03/08/microsoft-at-sxsw.aspx