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Agreed, the suite looks great. I too am looking forward to spending time with this. So far ... good job MS!

Woohoo! This Windows Live Wave 3 stuff is exciting. It's too bad I can't get my Windows Live Sync to connect to the server. Says the proxy server might need to be configured. I'm guessing Sync doesn't connect through port 80?

Awesome! I am a big fan of the Software side of Windows Live. I just updated all the Windows Live apps I have and WLM, my favorite of the suite, looks great! Even the sign in box of Windows Live Mail looks nice, though I wish it was glassy, like in Wave 2.

The icons are nice, too. (I wish MS would update the Mewsgroup) icon though.)

Windows Live Essentials is a peek at how Windows 7 will look and I loves me what I sees! :-)

The addition of a Sync button in the Mail side of WLM is nice. Much better than have it on Newsgroups.

Looking forward to your review Paul!

Nice, although Photo Gallery crashed the first time I tried to set up sync.

More importantly for me, I am still unable to sign in to Messenger on Windows Mobile.

Quick question...does Messenger work with AIM names?

Nice, thanks Paul.  (I had already struggled with the removal on my laptop--which didn't work.  I think that resulted from recent beta installed over earlier beta, leaving an odd Windows Live Beta blah blah item in Programs and Features, and nothing for individual programs.  revoUninstall got rid of it (fairly cleanly, I hope.  Will find out soon.  (The beta is listed sensibly in Programs and Features for the more recent installation under Bootcamp on my iMac.)

Paul, in your review, please cover Live Mesh beta vs new Live Sync issues:  any reason to keep the Mesh over Sync at this time?

And it was nice of them to hold the release until you were safely out of Redmond.  ;-)

The old http://get.live.com sends you to the old installer in case you only want to get non-beta software.

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Nice! If you change the folder/account color in WLM, the  color of the message's subject also changes. I like that :-)

Heh.

http://download.live.com/ redirected me to the Mactopia page.

Guess I'll wait tuntil I get home from work to check this out on the Visa box :-)

Is it just me, or the new version will not minimize to tray and not stay minimized at all?

I'm running Windows 7 build 6956

Something interesting:

research.microsoft.com/.../ICE

"Guess I'll wait tuntil I get home from work to check this out on the Visa box :-)"

Or the MasterCard box...

;-)

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Ok, so I was right.

Update to my post: I have upgraded Live Suite on both my Windows 7 PCs and there is a strange behaviour:

1. Tray icon and the possibility to minimize to tray is gone

2. After closing the Messenger main window minimizing Firefox 3 brings the Messenger back to front, instead of leaving it minimized.

3. There's a second window that opens with Live Messenger, showing only your picture and status. I am not sure what the purpose is with this

@kadarzsolt: Re: no icon in the tray. That might be by design in Windows 7

I don't remember where it's discussed (though it's well worth it to watch the entire presentation), have a look at this PDC 08 session video. Note when the presenter asked how many Outlook icons can be seen on the desktop.

channel9.msdn.com/.../PC24

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The Live Essentials suit comes with one of the 12 most vulnerable apps in the world, by the way:

blogs.zdnet.com/security

RunTimeError, I'm not surprised that the link diverted you to Mactopia--I've seen that behavior before.  And it's almost reasonable, in that Live Sync is/will be cross platform, but the downloaded Acme installer kit certainly isn't.  I'm not sure how they provide (will provide?) Sync for Mac.

@shark47 : also, your kitchen is packed with weapons that could harm, injur and even kill you if not used correctly. so don't go in there if you are afraid!

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shark

Nope.

The version of Messenger that's on the list is NOT the Windows Live Messenger that went to RC today, it's MSN Messenger versions 4.7 and 5.1.

Those versions werereplaced by MSN Messenger 6 in 2003. (and 7 in 2005 and Live Messenger 8 in 2006 and 8.1 in 2007 and 8.5 in 2007 and the new version, Messenger 2009 in early 2009, which is the one that's discussed in this post)

Now, it's not your fault that the bozos writing the article felt that they needed to list a Microsoft product in the list even though none met their criteria so they listed a version of an app that's been out of production for FIVE YEARS. On the other hand, I would blame ZDNet for giving that paper publicity with that big a flaw.

On the other hand, you might note that while NO current Microsoft software made the list, the most vulnerable app was versions 2.x and 3.x of Firefox and that all three of Apple's major PC software products (Safari, iTunes and QuickTIme) came in at #5 (although also specific older versions, to be fair)

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Yes Paul, I love being pedantic. Maybe its a southwest thing.

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Mike

I agree.  If you also notice, they misspell the name too.  There's no such version as "Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger", it's either "MSN Messenger", "Windows Messenger" (note NO Live name - this is the built-in XP client that was also subsequently released for 2000 and 2003) or "Windows Live Messenger".  If they are talking about versions 4.7 and 5.1, then they are talking about either "MSN Messenger" or "Windows Messenger", or indeed both.  They don't point this out at all.

Not only that, they have forgotton about 5.0 - are they saying that that between 4.7 and 5.1 it DIDN'T have any vulnerability, then it did then it didn't again?

So Shark is completely wrong.

I agree with your assertion about the article, seems like bad research altogether, deliberately trying to find news in something where there isn't news.

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So now we are reduced to finding fault in older versions of software that is no longer being used to scare people today from Windows or Microsoft products?

The apple has definitely fallen far from the tree.

Can we keep any security discussions on current used hardware and software? Now the I.E. flaws, thats fair game. But scaring people with 5 year old instant messengers is downright desperate.

That would be like looking for vulnerabilities in Mac OS System 7 and trying to scare someone in 2008. Even that is below pathetic and shouldn't be tolerated.

subzero

It's actually even more silly than that.

I can understand a security company talking about old versions of products having flaws since the companies they consult to very often haven't upgraded some software but an IM client typically won't even run if the version is too old and will require an update to talk to the servers.

This one was just silly.

I'm on a WinXP laptop for work and I ran the install and the Movie Maker wasn't part of the install.  I think I removed the old beta that was causing other issues.  What do you think could be the problem here?

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patrick_stephens

From the System Requirements page at download.live.com/SystemRequirements.aspx

Operating system: Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (32-bit edition only), or Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit editions). Note: Windows Live Movie Maker is not supported on Windows XP

Well there ya go.  Thanks Mike I didn't see that.

patrick_stephens

Yet another reason to get your work laptop upgraded to Vista

:-)

"Yet another reason to get your work laptop upgraded to Vista"

....or yet another reason why IT should be locking down PC's.

"That would be like looking for vulnerabilities in Mac OS System 7 and trying to scare someone in 2008. Even that is below pathetic and shouldn't be tolerated."

Mac OS 7 or scaring someone about it?

Don't laugh, but I've had visitors in my store that still claim to use Windows 98 - AND ON THE INTERNET, NO LESS!

Scary!

Esta semana se ha liberado una nueva versión de las famosas aplicaciones de Windows Live (Messenger,

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