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Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon

Ah its almost that time of the year, when we start posting 5 times a day with more screenshots than you can shake a stick at. Just to wet the appetite, the url for the Windows Live People service now works (people.live.com). Unfortunately if you’re not on the Hotmail dogfood servers, all you’ll see is your Hotmail inbox. Yes there is a Wave 3 Hotmail update, which should please a lot of people :)

Also of note is that profile.live.com now redirects to Spaces (photos.live.com has done for a few releases now).

One final point to make, is that if you signed into Windows Live Video Messages to try it out, you’ll have broken your Windows Live Calendar. If you try and sign in now, you’ll see an error message: “Windows Live Calendar wasn’t able to complete this request.” We’ve heard that it is a known issue, so it should get fixed in the near future. Maybe at the same time as a Wave 3 calendar update? ;)

Anyway, if you have any tips over the next month or so remember we have a dedicated tips line: tips [at] liveside dot net.

Fun times ahead!

Comments

BV2312 wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-23-2008 12:56 PM

Yeah my calendar got broken! Told Calendar Technical support, they got access to my account but they still haven't given it back :< been over 24hrs :<

DN2004 wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-23-2008 6:03 PM

Fantastic... I use my calendar daily...

maihaidang wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-23-2008 10:48 PM

You can now download the new Live Messenger here: *link removed* . PS: I hate new header, hope they change it soon

Chris wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-24-2008 5:48 AM

@maihaidang: thanks for the link :)

fyi that's the M1 build,  and the same as the screenshots from last week. A lot has changed in M2...

sp1der wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-24-2008 7:17 AM

also my calendar is broken... :-(

when will be reestablish????

i use calendar every day.......

surilamin wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-24-2008 11:42 AM

Thanks for the link Maihaidang, I'll have to fish around for an M2 build...if only I wasn't so busy with college starting back up...

tophtucker wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-24-2008 5:33 PM

I just got an ad in my Hotmail (in that area below Today/Mail/Contacts/Calendar): "good is getting better." It linked to www.windowslive-hotmail.com/comingsoon, which at the moment appears to be broken. Interesting.

tophtucker wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-25-2008 12:27 AM

Just to follow up, it seems they're promoting that URL pretty heavily--I've now seen several ads for it, but it still doesn't work.

Chris wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-25-2008 6:10 AM

tophtucker, interesting find :)

BV2312 wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-26-2008 5:14 AM

URL is working now!!!

BV2312 wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-26-2008 5:24 AM

i wonder what happened to WL Barcode or called WL confucius

Chris wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-26-2008 6:56 PM

RE: barcode, last we heard it wasn't an official product, just incubation. Haven't heard anything for over a year now.

damaster wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-26-2008 8:21 PM

WL Barcode....you know they would've done well if they continued with that incubation project. In Australia they're starting to promote the same QR Code being used in WL Barcode and it's starting to appear on ads and everywhere. Although of course not to the great extent as in Japan.

nikhil_jain wrote re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon
on 08-27-2008 6:17 AM

Invites going out to beta test Windows Live Wave 3 products

www.msgstuff.com/.../484-invites-going-out-to-beta-test-windows-live-wave-3-products

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