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 »

Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh available for download NOW! (Updated)

Thanks to a tip by Chrilo, who has found out the download address for the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 “Beta Refresh” supposedly due to be released in a few hours (10AM PST according ... Read more »

How to quickly change your Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh Language Setting?

When we first revealed the download links to the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh, we started off by providing the English version link first. Many of you have asked for the links ... Read more »

Windows Live Essentials Beta Refresh day one recap

What a fun day!  This morning at about 7:30 am Pacific Daylight Time, ace LiveSide contributor damaster found that the download link he had been tipped to earlier was now working, and he worked ... Read more »

WL 2011 Beta Refresh “No Internet Connection” error: fixed

(via meraTechPort, thanks Vasudev!) So you rushed to download and install Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh, only to get to 98% installed and fail, doh.  The problem was that although the final version ... Read more »