Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/7678/4a06669c-2d2b-4dc3-a477-9e00011b7678/WLWave4RTW_100_ch9.jpg Channel 9 - Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Windows Live Essentials 2011 (formerly Wave 4) has RTW-ed (Released To the Web). Download for free at this link: http://download.live.com The 2011 suite includes a tonne of new features including Facebook Chat integration within Messenger Bing Maps integration and improved geo-tagging support in Photo GalleryUpload video direct to Flickr Messenger video chat uses 30% fewer CPU resources by offloading work to the GPUHigher bit-rate movies in Movie Maker Better spell-checking and Office integration with Writer Improved Gmail support In this video Bryan Saftler gives us a quick tour of the Essentials 2011 suite. If you have any questions or requests for follow up interviews/demos related to Windows Live please leave them in the comments. More: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/09/30/windows-live-essentials-2011-available-for-download-now.aspx en Mon, 20 May 2013 22:34:08 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 22:34:08 GMT Rev9 Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Congrat!

posted by Dovella

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214719360000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:32:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214719360000000 Dovella Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now will this overwrite the old Live Mesh beta? I have to stick with it because one of the PC's I use is still on XP

posted by markheath

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214723030000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:38:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214723030000000 markheath Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Technical questions just like C9 likes it.

# What about the API of the formaly Live Mesh? Or the Live Framework? It's still running on the same MOE.exe so it should still be possible right ?
# Live Mesh for Windows Phone 7 ?
# Why does facebook chat not work in evry country by default ?
# Why are sms messages from Windows Live to phone costing me 25 cents, and normal smses cost much less!
# Why does the sync storage not alow view/editing of office documents stored online ?


PS: I hate Belgium for not updating the website yet!

posted by CKurt

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214733200000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:55:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214733200000000 CKurt Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now @markheath @CKurt - Great questions. I'm hoping to film a follow up video with some of the Windows Live Mesh engineers very soon

posted by nic

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214734610000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:57:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214734610000000 nic Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now So Sync is now called Mesh? Again?

posted by Stilgar

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214735980000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:59:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214735980000000 Stilgar Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now @Stilgar Correct. And they bumped the storage (back) up to 5GB Smiley

posted by nic

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214746820000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:18:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214746820000000 nic Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Live Mesh question:  Was it by design to leave out RSS Feed syncing in this Live Mesh release?  Is there a way for users to add the AppData/Local/Microsoft/Feeds folder to Live Mesh?

Thanks

posted by USArcher

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214763370000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:45:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214763370000000 USArcher Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Generic question regarding all WLE apps:  Are fixes/updates for WLE2011 handled by Windows Update?

posted by USArcher

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214785860000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:23:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214785860000000 USArcher Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now When I try to Sign in to Live Mesh I always get the following error: "Sorry, there is a problem with the Windows Live Mesh servers. Try again in a few minutes."

Am I doing something wrong?

posted by pedrobrown

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214836490000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:47:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214836490000000 pedrobrown Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Hmm, did the ability to write Ink messages get removed from messenger or am I just not seeing it for some reason?

posted by Barlo

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214844920000000 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:01:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214844920000000 Barlo Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Movie Maker getting really good. I wish more poeple knew about it.

It would be even better if the tool that lets you choose a start end end point for animated pans and zooms that's built into MS PhotoStory was integrated into Movie Maker. PhotoStory is the best free tool MS never let anyone know about.

Of course maybe that feature is in there, I haven't installed it yet to find out.

posted by dentaku

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214933480000000 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:29:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634214933480000000 dentaku Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now SCREW THIS CRAP, WLM9 IS BETTER.

posted by Diceman

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215085800000000 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:43:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215085800000000 Diceman Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now This may very well be the worst software suite I've ever used. If I start Windows live mail from the (pinned) taskbar icon, a NEW taskbar icon opens. Then it proceeds to download every email I've ever sent in GMail. It'd be fun if I could get to my email sometime this weekend.

I'm not even going to talk about the new Messenger anymore because the more I think of it the angrier I get.

Honestly, this is terrible. What was the Live Essentials team thinking?

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215423100000000 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:05:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215423100000000 Bas Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Was this better spell-checker used to verify this post?

posted by bob

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215497950000000 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:09:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215497950000000 bob Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now One thing I would like, is to easily use Windows Live Writer to make Wiki entries like into SharePoint or I guess any other Wiki but for now I'd be happy with SharePoint at work.

If it does it already I could not figure out the setup.

posted by SheldonS

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215516280000000 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:40:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215516280000000 SheldonS Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now Users wanted 5GB only?  Which users?  Who in the right mind would want to replace live sync's online  25GB with .... wait for it.... wait for it.... smaller 5 GB?  Are you kidding me?  Google it (not Bing it; since it may not find it Big Smile ) and you will see, that EVERYBODY outside MS was/ still is complaining about the lesser storage.

... or am I still confused?

posted by Boggy4062

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215727480000000 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:32:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215727480000000 Boggy4062 Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now

,nic wrote

@markheath @CKurt - Great questions. I'm hoping to film a follow up video with some of the Windows Live Mesh engineers very soon

Thanks,  would you address the online storage size issue? Smiley

posted by Boggy4062

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215728340000000 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:33:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215728340000000 Boggy4062 Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now @Boggy4062 That reference is to the fact that online storage was reduced to 2GB for the Wave 4 beta.

The feedback from the Wave 4 beta was that users wanted online sync storage kept at 5GB, not reduced to 2GB. The WL team heard the feedback and subsequently increased the online sync storage (back) to 5GB.

You're right though - 25GB would be awesome. Unlimited storage would be even better but I think we're a few years away from that being financially feasible for a free service Wink

posted by nic

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215885640000000 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:56:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215885640000000 nic Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now The FSS is generically speaking, an online proxy giving the parents the ability to control the Internet usage and destinations. I have used it since it first came out and loved it untill the parents had limitied control once the child hit 13, hopefully that has changed. Whereas the parental controls in W7 are PC based, the kid goes to another computer and they will completely get around all the security that was setup on the machine. With FSS, any computer that has it running, the kid will still follow your "rules".
Much like "markheath" most everyone still has and uses an XP machine, and yes it has been 10 years since XP came out, it has been less than 2 years since sales were stopped for "small" system integrators.
What would be really nice is if the SkyDrive storage and Mesh storage were one. I don’t necessarily need to sync 25G, but 5G is definitely not enough.
PhotoGallery doesn’t really blotch the pictures to eliminate objects, after the initial stitching of the photos, all it is really doing is removing parts of a specific layer in order to make the “perfect” picture.

posted by Stupidav

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215958860000000 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:58:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634215958860000000 Stupidav Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now @Bas: I've seen the issue of a pinned program opening a separate button on the taskbar before, but not with Windows Live Essentials. I've seen it with Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, though. In my experience, it's just an OS issue. For whatever it's worth I've got WL Mail pinned to my taskbar and it doesn't open a separate button when I open the program. When I've had this problem with other problems, I just unpinned the defective shortcut and re-pinned it and all was well. I don't believe it has anything to do with the specific program that the .lnk is targetting.

As far as Messenger goes, it's simple enough to just hit that icon in the upper right and fold it back to only a contact list. Also... A-Patch is your friend.

 

@Boggy4062: Here's the story:

We had (and still have) 25GB of storage in Skydrive.

A couple of years ago, there was a Community Tech Preview of a new service called "Live Mesh" located athttp://mesh.com/ with its own independent 5GB of online storage, plus the ability to pass any information that exceeded this 5GB limit by leaving multiple computers on and having them sync data to each other peer-to-peer (and also a nice way to log into any online computer that you had added to your Mesh from any other online computer that had the Mesh software installed).

Then "Live Mesh" went into its own Beta for a while.

 

Meanwhile in Skydrive land, there was a program called "Windows Live Sync" that uploaded files to Skydrive.

Then for the Windows Live Wave 4 Beta, it was decided that "Live Mesh" would become the new "Windows Live Sync". Where "Live Mesh" had had its own 5GB of online storage that was completely unrelated to Skydrive, the new version's storage with the new "Windows Live Sync" name would only have 2GB of online storage, which would be subtracted out of your 25GB of Skydrive storage.

This made a lot of "Live Mesh" users unhappy, since they had been using 5GB of online storage and would now be cut down to only 2GB.

So, in reaction to this unhappiness, the Windows Live team decided that they would keep "Live Mesh" as "Windows Live Mesh" and also reverse their decision to allow you to only use 2GB of your Skydrive storage on Windows Live Mesh, and instead use up to 5GB of your 25GB of Skydrive storage on Windows Live Mesh.

 

 

 

 

posted by natelawrence

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634216161460000000 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:35:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634216161460000000 natelawrence Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now posted by toko

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634216280210000000 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:53:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634216280210000000 toko Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now @natelawrence: oh, the expanded contact list is theleast of the problems with the new messenger. At least that's easily solved with the click of a button.

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634216303840000000 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:33:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634216303840000000 Bas Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now posted by x.iso

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634220747640000000 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:59:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634220747640000000 x.iso Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now posted by Blaine Levey

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634230114080000000 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:10:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634230114080000000 Blaine Levey Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now posted by kathleen

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634233922830000000 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:58:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634233922830000000 kathleen Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now questions on WLM(Windows Live Messenger). i've noticed WLM has a Group feature. i tried creating one and i invited some of my friends jioned in. but if i want the others could also request for joining in and the owner(me) or the co-owners decide to appove the request or not ,how can i do that?  how can the others see the group and make an request?  does the group have a size limit?what the upper size? thanks!

posted by Shunlai

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634246308000000000 Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634246308000000000 Shunlai Re: Windows Live Essentials 2011 - Available Now posted by shanisskinny

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634313031310000000 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:25:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/NicFill/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011-Available-Now#c634313031310000000 shanisskinny