New Wave 4 Header spotted in the wild, with working Web Messenger

By Kip Kniskern on May 20, 2010 2:45 PM

20 comments

Our friend and LiveSide reader Gilly2468 over at My Microsoft Life has come across a Windows Live url complete with a partially working Wave 4 Header. The url, https://consent.live.com, which appears to be available to anyone with a working Live ID, contains the Wave 4 Header:

While you can poke around the drop down menus, and actually sign in and use the new Web Messenger, most of the links either don’t work or resolve back to existing Wave 3 pages. Still, if you want to check out live what we’ve been showing you about the new header for a while now (amazing the stuff you can find if you know where to poke around!), you can check it out for yourself.

(Thanks for the tweet, Gilly! Glad to see My Microsoft Life is up and running!)

Edit: Thanks to comments from Andrew, Lo spazio di Ugosan and Brammie2118, Microsoft have reverted the consent.live.com site back to the old Wave 3 header. However, going to https://consent.live.com/pp800/manageconsent.aspx will still give you to Wave 4 header.

Posted in News | Tags: UI, Wave 4, Web Messenger

Comments

jntowers

messenger works really smooth and snappy, unlike current web messenger – good to see!
JohnCz

This seems like an interim build, no link to Spaces, Devices, etc. But I love seeing OneNote in the Office menu.

tn0

Hover over “Windows Live” to go to Devices or SkyDrive. And I thought Spaces are dead?

JohnCz

Sofar I don’t see Devices but I’m glad you can confirm though. No, I think you must be mistaken about Spaces. Awhile back, I saw a screenshot showing Spaces in the Messenger menu. You may be talking about Groups, it was suggested earlier this year that they could be transforming it into something abit different then what we now think of Live Groups.

Damaster – LiveSide.net

Sorry, but pretty much what you see is what you get. “Devices” no longer appear in the Wave 4 header following the M3 update. The same applies to Spaces.

What you’d seen back in January/February was the old M2 build header (http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/01/04/a-new-wave-a-new-look-first-look-at-the-windows-live-wave-4-header.aspx). Since then it got updated to the new M3 build header (the one that says “Office” instead of “Docs” – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/04/23/windows-live-office-spotted-in-the-new-wave-4-header-replacement-for-windows-live-docs-and-office-live.aspx) it does not have Devices or Spaces anymore.

Of course, it’s still being developed, so it might make a come back in final version….but not guaranteed ;)

http://about.me/mackenzieprice mackenziepricee

I love the new layout. Not really sure why but it has a real classy feel to it.
Chris Jenkins

Sadly the design is still a bit too plain for my liking… but oh my god, Web Messenger working in Google Chrome? I’m amazed. 2010 and they finally get cross-browser compatibility working.
tn0

Interesting: I get the new header in my language (German) and they have translated “Office”. So it isn’t the product name “Office” but just a “office”? Very confusing. To be honest the name “Windows Live Office” is one of the worst and confusing names, that Microsoft came up with (and they do have a long tradition of terrible product names).

What was wrong with “Docs” that we saw in older screen shots?

kevyn82

same for Italy, they translated Office into “Ufficio”. maybe they used google translation :-)
Was checking spanish, portuguese, french and polish version, but they left Office as the product name.

http://vasudevg.blogspot.com/ vasudev

Check exclusive screenshots/details of the Integrated Chat in the New Hotmail wave 4 -
http://vasudevg.blogspot.com/2010/05/im-and-sms-from-new-hotmail-wave-4.html
Capli

After the sign in it’s not working for me (Czech Rep.) http://twitpic.com/1pnamh
Chris

i remember back when MSN web messenger was the hot thing. Though it wasn’t in any header and you had to go to the msn messenger website to access it.
Andrew

It looks like its gone back to the Wave 3 header for me. Web Messenger looked gerat thought. Can’t wait for it.

http://www.twitter.com/brammie2118 Brammie2118

Jep back to wave 3 header here too…

http://twitter.com/spaziodiUgosan Lo spazio di Ugosan

Just click on this link https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=11&ct=1274427655&rver=6.1.6185.0&wp=SAPI&wreply=https://consent.live.com/pp800/default.aspx%3Frollrs%3D04&lc=1033&id=252554 , log in and you can still use it! :)

http://www.twitter.com/brammie2118 Brammie2118

ey yeah.. well the link doesnt work exactly, but some playing with it and it works :)

https://consent.live.com/pp800/manageconsent.aspx is the new header
https://consent.live.com/pp750/manageconsent.aspx is the old header :D

700 and 850 just give an error page :p

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm9_xn4du7gkX1QmMKAgklpqef4BuqOzqw Rodolfo G.

It even works in Google Chrome… nice to see MS is starting to play nice with other browsers from the beginning as well…

Does anyone know if the new Hotmail (wave 4) will have instant inbox refresh (as in not having to refresh or click on inbox to check for new mail)?

Jonatan Monroy

yes, it shows the unread mails you have instantly

Jonatan Monroy

It looks like https://consent.live.com/pp800/manageconsent.aspx doesen’t works anymore, or it is closed for the US only =(

http://www.twitter.com/brammie2118 Brammie2118

Down here too, Dutch(Netherlands) settings

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