Windows Live Beta

Published on September 19, 2008 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

The next betas of Windows Live have been released this week. Windows Live is moving in a good direction, and the integration with services is just getting better and better. This new beta release gives updates to several applications.

Messenger v9
Windows Live Movie Maker
Mail with Calendar synchronization
Live Writer
Photo Gallery
Family Safety
Outlook Connector

My favorite is Live Writer, which is a fantastic tool to create and publish blog entries. This can be used for JoeUser, which also posts to ImpulseDriven and WinCustomize.

Download: http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-web.exe

Comments

kryo

on Sep 19, 2008

Please tell me they didn't add the ribbon to livewriter

Island Dog

on Sep 19, 2008

No, no ribbon, but some nice improvements.

Pixeleo

on Sep 19, 2008

I love Live Writer...it's the most creative thing that came out of Redmond

I've tried the new messenger too, but it's just a teensy bit unstable. Crashed on second use

Philly0381

on Sep 19, 2008

I think I looked at Windows Live before, refresh my memory what is it?

Pixeleo

on Sep 19, 2008

"Windows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft. A majority of these services areWeb applications, accessible from a browser, but there are applications that need installing as well. There are three basic groups of these services: connect, share and protect. "

From Wikipedia

Philly0381

on Sep 19, 2008

"Windows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft. A majority of these services areWeb applications, accessible from a browser, but there are applications that need installing as well. There are three basic groups of these services: connect, share and protect. "

Huh?

CharlesCS

on Sep 19, 2008

I ,ike LiveWriter, but have gotten use to using scribefire because I can use it on my portable firefox while livewriter is stuck on my PC at home. But I swtich from time to time. I look forward to the upgrade today at home.

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