Microsoft details Windows Live Essentials 2011 QFE3 update changes

Microsoft released an update for Windows Live Essentials 2011 two weeks ago, bumping the version number to 15.4.3555.0308. However, as we mentioned in a follow-up post, the Windows Live team did not mention what ... Read more »

Microsoft: How not to do an update?

Yesterday Microsoft released an update to Windows Live Essentials, notable in that we haven’t seen a significant update to the software suite in over a year.  Although the update was announced on the Windows ... Read more »

Windows Live Essentials Updated!

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Live Essentials: Today, we released an update for Windows Live Essentials 2011 in all 48 languages. This minor release includes numerous updates across all of the programs ... Read more »

A sneak peek at Office 15, (and some questions about Windows Live Writer)

This morning Paul Thurrott posted an extensive Office 15 “Preview”, after he was able to “get his hands on a copy” of the Office 15 Technical Preview, which was released a few weeks ago ... Read more »

At Microsoft’s Build conference, All Will Be Revealed (or will it?)

In less than a month, Microsoft is hosting its Build\Windows conference, promising to pull back the curtains on Windows 8.  Up until then, the company has been unusually quiet, even for them, on a ... Read more »

Windows Live Essentials updated: SSL for WL Mail

Looks like there’s a minor update to Windows Live Essentials available starting today, according to a blog post on Inside Windows Live.  From the blog post: This week, we will release an update to ... Read more »

Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 compulsory update coming soon

Back in May 2010, just before the launch of Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Wave 4), Microsoft released a small QFE update for Windows Live Essentials Wave 3 which bumped the version number to 14.0.8117.416. ... Read more »

Windows Live Essentials 2011 QFE released: you can update now

Thanks to a tip from our friends at Wikikou.fr, we learn tonight that there’s been a QFE (Quick Fix Engineering – meaning a bug fix update, not UI changes) for almost all of Windows ... Read more »

Rumors are flying! WLE 2011 release (RC?, Final?) Sept. 30?

We know that at some point a new version of Windows Live Essentials is coming.  For one thing, it’s in beta, and fortunately for us Windows Live applies the beta tag a bit more ... Read more »

A new (old) name for Live Sync: Live Mesh !?!

We’ve been hearing rumblings about a Live Sync name change, and sure enough, today on the Inside Windows Live blog Microsoft is announcing that Live Sync will be renamed as…Windows Live Mesh. Geez we’re ... Read more »