Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

Alber1690 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:17:56 GMT

Wow, as an MSN Premium member, I actually got access to the new WL Account site :)

But all the links at the top are either broken or lead to old services :(

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

damaster — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:41:30 GMT

The links in "What's New" section in Messenger Wave 3 now takes you to the profile.live.com address instead of the old Spaces profile. Still page not found though...

The private beta addresses (ie. home-beta.live.com) now redirects to Windows Live Home (instead of the error page) Looks like the private beta has been ended as it gets rolled out.

Things are getting prepared for the launch. Exciting stuff =)

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

Jamie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:31:40 GMT

almost as my web source said December 1st we see rollouts :) (but did not say what or they did not know)

profile.live.com is not 'propagated' and with same error code from OpenDNS (well 18hrs ago same were my website's DNS ;) ) so i wonder if we have a matter of hours :)

home.live.com/options/ *that is the 'windows live options' section of account goes if clicked* - the redirecting is not working anymore so seems they pulled the file (or renamed it) to stop access to this as they not 100% ready

i wait in earnst :P

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

andie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:49:54 GMT

It looks like those messy URLs are a mechanism to track where people are coming from and going to, persumably to see if those links would be better as something else.

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

Chris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:49:04 GMT

Guys, profile does have a proper web address "eg chris-liveside.profile.live.com" you just need to wait for it to roll out :)

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

Khristopher — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:40:36 GMT

@ranpha

It's the same way with skydrive too. It's about time that they changed that, so that it's easier to tell people in REAL LIFE how to get to your content.

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

Khristopher — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:39:46 GMT

It feels much simpler for some reason. I don't know if they took content away, or changed the layout. It looks the same, but I'm not sure. Either way it's an improvement, as things are easier to find there now.

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

ranpha — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:39:41 GMT

Profile details has the silly http://<gibberish_string_same_as_skydrive>.profile.live.com/details format. Seriously, where is the customization option, like what we get in Spaces?

re: Windows Live Account gets Wave 3 update - Services updates start

andie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:55:16 GMT

I think it's interesting that at the top Hotmail is referred to simply as "Mail", are they adopting this name (again)? Or is it simply to save space?