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Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments

You know what they say: “two heads are better than one”. The same is true for inquisitive users, as the comments to yesterday’s post on the new Windows Live Wave 3 betas showed.

First up was luisfelipe, who found an internal beta email sent to Microsoft employees. This has since been removed, except for the copy I saved – doh. Nice to see all those corpnet links floating around, but not that useful.

Then there was cleitondj, who managed to get up the Wave 3 header on this error message page. Sign-in for yourself if you want to see it in the wild, but remember there’s no access to the actual services yet.

And finally there was BV2312, who managed to get onto the new Spaces homepage, until they took that down too. Luckily PicturePan2 managed to grab some screeenshots showing some of the new default headers that run across all the Windows Live Wave 3 services. He also got linked this image showing the new status indicators that will appear around your display picture on the new Wave 3 header – not yet working though.

  wave 3 glow 

Check out how they are expected to look in Windows Live Wave 3 Messenger too!

Finally, and speaking of Messenger, check out this bonus link sent into our tips hotline by SSP: tips [at] liveside d0t net. It shows the French Windows Live Messenger download page, along with a “Test Soon – Messenger 2009 beta” button. The url it points to doesn’t work yet though, even with view source :(

Keep those tips coming!

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BV2312 wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 5:10 PM

Hahahaha

did i break a law or something? Sorry Microsoft :>

surilamin wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 5:19 PM

hehe...I love this community. :)

tophtucker wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 5:26 PM

We're pathetic, hunting around and logging in to find... a newer, spiffier-looking error page, hahaha. But hey, I was as happy as anyone to take a look. :)

I've gotta say, though, I really liked the concept of the orb. There was just... such symmetry... Windows orb, Xbox orb, Office orb, Live orb. No more. :(

tophtucker wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 5:28 PM

In other news, Live.com has taken on a decidedly more somber tone today... no hotspots, either....

BV2312 wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 5:39 PM

@Tophtucker

We love error pages :> especailly when they show more details of the new look

yeah saw the candle looks scary? LOL

Chris wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 5:54 PM

Here's a bonus one for you guys:

account-beta.live.com/error.aspx

BV2312 wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 5:57 PM

I think the candle is for 9/11

surilamin wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:06 PM

@ tophtucker, as BV2312 said, the candle is for the September 11th attacks in America.

tophtucker wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:15 PM

@BV2312, surilamin -- yup, that was my assumption. Google doesn't have anything up, but Google Doodles are by nature more lighthearted (and thus maybe not quite so flexible, however much I love them and however charming they may be).

CalumJR wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:37 PM

Chris, thank you very much for the info, screenshots & links! :)

I do love this community! :P

cleitondj wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:53 PM

wow!  thanks Chris =] =]

Cleiton.

luisfelipe wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 6:56 PM

hahaha...

While there's a search engine and security breaks in beta servers we will find it!

Thanks a lot for all the information I discover here!

My friends here in Brazil think the new look is much more great than today's look...

See you later!!! (in the new errorpage founds!! haha)

mrx9898 wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 7:17 PM

I quite like this new header. I like it because it's simple, and elegant. Isn't there some sort of saying about simplicity being good? Well, I think so anyways :P

Ryan wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 9:46 PM

@mrx9898  "Elegant Simplicity" is a common catchphrase

And I love the new header!

mrx9898 wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Thu, Sep 11 2008 10:53 PM

Haha, Yeah, that one :).

guruparan wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Fri, Sep 12 2008 4:28 AM

www.windowslive-hotmail.com/.../default.htm

Saw this website...it says "IM within hotmail!!" thats wat i was looking for more than an year!

BV2312 wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Fri, Sep 12 2008 4:48 AM
SSP wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Fri, Sep 12 2008 12:42 PM

Error file page:

photos-beta.live.com/error.aspx

skydrive-beta.live.com/error.aspx

Error not available page:

account-beta.live.com/error.aspx

home-beta.live.com/Error.aspx

All borders and contactlist icons:

http://img.shared.live.com/$live.controls.images/ic/iciconmap24.png

** 8bit version:

http://img.shared.live.com/$live.controls.images/ic/iciconmap8.png

8bit version of the already posted big borders:

http://img.shared.live.com/$live.controls.images/ic/iciconmapxl8.png

martijnsch wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Fri, Sep 12 2008 1:26 PM

Does anyone knows wen its come out or is that the problem?

SSP wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Fri, Sep 12 2008 1:30 PM

a bit more:

a couple of icons:

http://img.shared.live.com/$live.controls.images/h/strip.png

bottom of the header (white fading at bottom u only can't see it with a white background)

http://img.shared.live.com/$live.controls.images/h/g.png

official header-background

shared.live.com/pMWZvaQzZmc5VhPJrJQI2vT2VLYkyQMdRKd2JBxW32MRrlIMjmH!3Q/base/14.2.1231/img/_12.jpg

(i think there's also the version number in the link 14.2.1231)

BV2312 wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Fri, Sep 12 2008 2:22 PM

Nice job SSP

joeale wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Fri, Sep 12 2008 6:17 PM

This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, New Zune software, Silverlight effects and LINQ myths

channel9.msdn.com/.../This-Week-on-C9-Live-Wave-3-New-Zune-software-Silverlight-effects-and-LINQ-myths

volvoshine wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Fri, Sep 12 2008 10:52 PM

My point of view...

Companies can try ALL they want to try and stop & lock down info. But if there is info out there someone will find it. The sooner they learn this the better.

technogran wrote re: Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments
on Wed, Sep 17 2008 2:23 AM

Do any of you know whether or not the beta test has begun, and if the testers have been chosen? It seems to have all gone quiet recently!

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on Thu, Oct 16 2008 11:43 AM

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