2010

Hot on the heels of Essentials, the new dev.live.com goes live

Dev.live.com, the developer portal for Windows Live, has been completely refreshed with a new look and a new platform for Windows Live Wave 4:

devlivecom

We are going to be diving deep into the new developer tools in the next few …

Windows Live Wave 4: A note about connecting Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

So you’ve probably all got your hands on Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta today, and have been playing with it for a bit (and a few glitches here and there). Looking at the comments our readers have left, we …

Windows Live Wave 4: Live Sync For Macs

Hopefully you’ve all be downloading and playing with the new Wave 4 beta, long time coming, huh! But what about our Mac friends? Well, if you were using Mesh on your Mac and have now installed Wave 4, Mesh is

Essentials Wave 4: First Impressions?

(UPDATE: just added a poll in the right sidebar: “How was your Essentials install?”, vote please!)

(apologies to those of you who not only saw, but responded to an earlier version of this post that I somehow published …

Windows Live Wave 4: Direct Download Links

Wave 4 is here (!!) and we’re all about saving time here at Liveside, so we’ve compiled a list of all the available languages for the the Wave 4 beta and their associated downloads, both web and full.

English: …

Windows Live Essentials Beta: it’s here!

It’s here now, go go go!

Download Beta Now

Note: if you want to keep using Live Mesh (for now), do not install Live Sync as this will remove Live Mesh.

Warning: “Download Now” is Auto install and will install

Windows Live Essentials 2011: here comes the marketing push!

Francisco Martín García has been feeding his readers information about Windows and Windows Live that has proven to be quite accurate.  Well today, along with the build number for the Essentials beta (15.4.2850.0624), García has posted a timeline for Windows

Windows Live Wave 4: The New Emoticons

The new emoticons are waiting for Beta! (thanks for the heads up, @_tom!)

BTW an old Windows Live Butterfly friend, Mark Noble, put together a little crib sheet of the new emoticons:

WLM-Emoticon-Reference (2)

We’re still getting used the the …

Third IE9 Platform Preview Available

Yesterday the third IE9 Platform preview got released. This release includes support for the HTML5 <audio>, <video>, and <canvas> elements, the Web Open Font Format (WOFF), and many other new and improved capabilities.
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The platform preview installs side by side …

5 things you’re going to like about Wave 4 (and 3 whiny complaints)

betadownloadlogoIf all goes according to plan, in a few hours you’ll be able to download Windows Live Essentials “Wave 4” beta, and get your hands on the first new major release for Windows Live in over a year.  In …