Remember the good old days of Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, the time we only had a megabyte or two of storage? And then when Google announced Gmail with 1GB of storage, that seemed unbelievable.
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New Rap Song Explains the Failures of Microsoft’s Windows Live Services
Every year, Microsoft posts a huge loss for their online services. Still, they keep trying to push new features that they ‘think’ that users want such as making Windows Live Messenger a bloated mess and making Hotmail more useless with every update ( hint: learn from Gmail, Microsoft ). A user, Dan Bull, has sent us his rap song that summarizes all the issues with these Windows Live services and why they annoy us.
Microsoft Connecting LinkedIn and Facebook Chat to Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger
Microsoft says that users can now connect their Messenger and Windows Live profiles with LinkedIn. They’ve made connecting with different social networks possible in Windows Live Messenger Beta 2010. Now users are able to share photos, videos and links through it and other networks like Facebook and LinkedIn will update synchronously. LinkedIn connection will allow users of both services to easily keep tabs on their activities.
Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh Available for Download [Full Installer Link]
As expected eagerly ( LiveSide have been covering the new icons and expected features constantly), Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh is now available for download. Along with the new icons, there are many bug fixes in this release as well as Windows Live Language Setting with many language packs.
Download Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta Offline Setup/Installers
Wave 4 Beta is the latest of version Windows Live Essentials Apps with improved user interfaces and great functionality. An issue with the setup files for Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta is that they’re online based and it’s very difficult to find the offline links. Ed Bott has struck gold though, he has managed to find the offline links for Wave 4 Beta in the Windows Live Solution Center.
Download Windows Live Messenger for iPhone
As expected, Microsoft has released Windows Live Messenger v 1.01 for iPhone and it is now available for download from iTunes (US store only so far). It is available for both iPhone and iPod Touch and it provides a lot of Windows Live Messenger and social functionalities which let you see your Windows Live Home stream and interact with your friends.
Download Windows Live Online Services sidebar gadget by Microsoft
Microsoft doesn’t release official sidebar gadgets too often. They actually managed to remove a few handy sidebar gadgets that were shipped with Windows Vista, from Windows 7 such as Notes Gadget and Contacts Gadget. Recently, Microsoft released a new gadget for Windows Vista and 7 named Online Services gadget.
Windowslivepreview.com is live now
It was expected that Windowslivepreview will go live today. Now that the website has finally gone live, we all can get a taste of what the next generation Windows Live Messenger will be like. This website is not just for Messenger but will also be carrying details for other Wave 4 apps and services soon.
WindowsLivePreview.com to go live today
WindowsLivePreview.com is expected to go live today (April 28th). This site will basically do the promotion for Windows Live Wave 4 in the coming months. Liveside was lucky to get a screenshot of the website while it was briefly online earlier.
Leaked screenshots of Windows Live Essentials 2010 Milestone Beta 3
Livebeta.net has posted some new screenshots of the latest build of Windows Live Essentials 2010 Milestone beta 3. One of the screenshot shows that the build version is 15.3.2688.420, it was complied on April 20, 2010 and its total size is 188MB. Another bit of information we have is that within the next week, invitations will be sent out to limited number of testers on Microsoft Connect.