Well today was the big launch day for Wave 4 of Windows Live Essentials which is a collection of programs that include Windows Live Mail, the new Messenger and a bunch of other programs. I am sure tomorrow will see a lot of reviews = both good and bad, because we know that Microsoft can’t do anything right.
Microsoft:
- Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1 – Bink.nu
Microsoft® Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) introduces new features and functionality to Forefront TMG 2010 Standard and Enterprise Editions. - Windows PCs take New York – The Windows Blog
Yesterday and today folks from all of Microsoft’s consumer businesses – Windows, Office, Hardware, Xbox, etc. – were in NYC for our annual holiday preview event for consumer press and analysts where we show off our latest and greatest stuff, and give them a sneak peek at what’s coming this holiday season (read: a lot).
Windows Live & Bing:
- Windows Live Wave 4: The New Emoticons – LiveSide
The new emoticons are waiting for Beta! (thanks for the heads up, @_tom!) - Bing executive: ‘We have caught up’ to Google in search quality -LA Times
For Microsoft, the online search game is no longer about trying to mimic Google’s features inside of Bing.
Windows Phone 7:
- Microsoft builds a Windows Phone 7 developer platform, but will the coders come? – Mary Jo Foley
In the PC world, vendors used to say that the hardware and operating system were far less important than the number and variety of applications available for a given platform.
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The French version is still Beta. Since I only use it for WLM's newsreader capability, I installed it last night (it wasn't available before). The confounded thing takes ages and a reboot to install, and it doesn't give you a choice about what components you install (including the Bing Toolbar! Grrr…); hopefully the final version will allow more selection – and install faster. OTOH, it promises that the "Wave 4" version will be included in the Windows Update scan, unlike the "Wave 3" version.
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LikeWhen that 'install everything' happened on my main machine I thought maybe I had double clicked something but needless to say that lack of choice caught me off guard but when it happened on the laptop I was not impressed at all. I meant to mention that in the post I wrote about Essentials so thanks for reminding me about it.
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LikeThe French version is still Beta. Since I only use it for WLM's newsreader capability, I installed it last night (it wasn't available before). The confounded thing takes ages and a reboot to install, and it doesn't give you a choice about what components you install (including the Bing Toolbar! Grrr…); hopefully the final version will allow more selection – and install faster. OTOH, it promises that the "Wave 4" version will be included in the Windows Update scan, unlike the "Wave 3" version.
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LikeWhen that 'install everything' happened on my main machine I thought maybe I had double clicked something but needless to say that lack of choice caught me off guard but when it happened on the laptop I was not impressed at all. I meant to mention that in the post I wrote about Essentials so thanks for reminding me about it.
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- disagree
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LikeThe French version is still Beta. Since I only use it for WLM's newsreader capability, I installed it last night (it wasn't available before). The confounded thing takes ages and a reboot to install, and it doesn't give you a choice about what components you install (including the Bing Toolbar! Grrr…); hopefully the final version will allow more selection – and install faster. OTOH, it promises that the "Wave 4" version will be included in the Windows Update scan, unlike the "Wave 3" version.
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- disagree
- off topic
LikeWhen that 'install everything' happened on my main machine I thought maybe I had double clicked something but needless to say that lack of choice caught me off guard but when it happened on the laptop I was not impressed at all.
I meant to mention that in the post I wrote about Essentials so thanks for reminding me about it.
- spam
- offensive
- disagree
- off topic
LikeThe French version is still Beta. Since I only use it for WLM's newsreader capability, I installed it last night (it wasn't available before). The confounded thing takes ages and a reboot to install, and it doesn't give you a choice about what components you install (including the Bing Toolbar! Grrr…); hopefully the final version will allow more selection – and install faster. OTOH, it promises that the "Wave 4" version will be included in the Windows Update scan, unlike the "Wave 3" version.
- spam
- offensive
- disagree
- off topic
LikeWhen that 'install everything' happened on my main machine I thought maybe I had double clicked something but needless to say that lack of choice caught me off guard but when it happened on the laptop I was not impressed at all.
I meant to mention that in the post I wrote about Essentials so thanks for reminding me about it.
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- offensive
- disagree
- off topic
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