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WindowsLivePreview.com goes live: “What’s New in Messenger”

Apr 27, 2010 2:48 am by Kip Kniskern | 10 comments

We just went to write up a story on www.windowslivepreview.com, which was rumored to go live tomorrow (April 28th), but looky here, it’s live already:

(we’ve been hitting some error pages, looks like the site isn’t quite ready for prime time, so if you can’t reach it, you should be able to soon)

So far, it looks like only Messenger is previewed, although My Microsoft Life is reporting that another website, www.hotmailpreview.com, will have more info about, umm, Hotmail, but it doesn’t appear to be available quite yet. A third site, www.messengerpreview.com, isn’t up yet, either.

The sites are registered to Microsoft PR firm Waggener Edstrom, who obviously are going to be busy promoting Windows Live and Wave 4 in the coming weeks and months.

Looks like lots of information in the new site, including what appears to be a push by Microsoft to promote Windows Live’s privacy features:

and a feature by feature comparison of Windows Live Messenger with other IM services, including:

Real time photo and video sharing
Hi def video chat
video messages
real time gaming
social networks aggregation
integration with email inbox
IM to SMS integration
iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and Nokia apps
Partner APIs

Looks like we’re just about ready to really talk about Windows Live Wave 4, exciting!

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Andrew
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http://www.LiveSide.net Kip Kniskern – LiveSide.net
Looks like we just got a quick peek, a number of blogs have reported that the sites are set to go live tomorrow :)
Interframe
Real-time photo and video sharing from web services such as YouTube and Bing Images? Awesome! What about that Metro-like UI for the main messenger window that was leaked a while back? Is that still going to be there?
magj
The site crapped out again while I was view “what’s new”. I think I saw somethign about badges and achievments. That sounds promising.
Yeah, I saw the bing integration stuff too. What I saw briefly looks to be the service to combing them all. :0)
Forrest
Well I was in for a minute. I was looking around and reading stuff than I got a cool looking gray login page, I tried to go back and anything I now click on I get the login page. I tried my windows live id and it reloaded with the same login page.
Anyone else?
- majg
  I didn’t get as far as a login page. But what I’m reading about Messenger updates is that this is one heck of an update.. feature-wise.
  I like the focus on privacy.
- Forrest
  Got in again, seems you can get in from the back. Try this link
  http://www.windowslivepreview.com/messenger/resources
http://markk-b.sitesled.com Mark Kéy-Balchin
messengerpreview.com now redirects to windowslivepreview.com, which is giving me this:
Windows Live
Reviewer’s Guide
Coming soon on April 28th
Jason
http://windowslivepreview.com/hotmail/ redirects to a login page, so evidently something else will be coming… though it is a while after the 28th.