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The Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta is now available to download.The WLE Wave 4 Beta suite contains updates to Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, and Messenger. Additionally, it introduces a new service, Live Sync, which replaces the Live Mesh technology preview.The new betas of Windows…

The upcoming version of Windows Live, aka Windows Live “Wave 4,” will get its own service status dashboard, according to Jamie Thomson, who reveals this previously undisclosed nugget, along with 9 other things you may not have known about Windows Live’s latest update. In his new post “10 Secrets…

Beta testers of Windows Live Mesh, the synchronization, online storage and remote access service, will soon discover that it’s now merging with the new Windows Live Sync, a part of the updated Windows Live Essentials suite of applications. The technology that was developed for Live Mesh will form…

Windows Live Movie Maker is getting a revamp with the launch of the new Windows Live Essentials suite of applications which also includes programs like Windows Live Mail, Photo Gallery and Messenger. In the updated Movie Maker application, there will be new themes built in and when you use the…

The Windows Live Video Messages beta will be retired July 21st, according to an email now being sent out to users. While some may be disappointed to see this service leave the net, it’s not as bad as it sounds because the upcoming version of Windows Live Messenger will have offline video messaging…

The web address www.live.com is the new entryway to the Windows Live portal, the homepage for Windows Live online services like Windows Live Photos, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live People, etc. Previously, this portal was available through home.live.com.  When you login via the new URL,…

If you haven’t signed into your Windows Live homepage or other Live services like Hotmail or SkyDrive, go take a look at what’s changed. It’s a subtle thing, but the sign-in page itself has gotten a revamp. The new page fits in better with the rest of the services now with a refreshed look that’s…

The LiveUpload for YouTube plugin (which we first discovered last year along with LiveUpload for Facebook) is a piece of add-on software designed specifically for Windows Live software. With this plugin installed, you can upload your videos from the Windows Live Photo Gallery software (yes, it…

Windows Live, the social homepage that connects you to all your online activities including email, news, photos, social networks, and more, has just added 19 more “activity partners” to their line up. In case you’re unfamiliar, the activity partners are the websites you can add to your network feed…

On what seemed to be a previously defunct blog (last update 9 months ago!), the Windows Live for Windows Mobile team recently surprised us all with a new blog post. According to the site, there’s now an updated version of Windows Live for Windows Mobile now available for mobile users. The updated…