Microsoft is assembling the group of testers who will receive the first beta of Service Pack (SP) 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in July.
The company has begun sending invitations to those it plans to include in the testing program. According to the invitations, the beta bits will be in English, German, Japanese, French and Spanish.
Building on our commitment to provide customers with the right technologies to virtualize their IT environments, today we’re announcing that the public beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 will be released by the end of July. We’ve posted on the contents of SP1 before, but the beta release will be the first time you’ll be able to actually get your mitts on the new code.
Released to manufacturing today, Windows Server AppFabric simplifies the development and management of composite applications by providing improved speed, elastic scale and high availability through distributed caching capabilities and new tools. Customers with licenses for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (Standard and Enterprise editions) can download Windows Server AppFabric at no additional cost.
Looks like we’re one step closer to getting our hands on Windows Live Wave 4. Tonight (9pm pdt) Microsoft is taking the wraps off their preview of Windows Live Essentials, which you can check out at www.windowslivepreview.com. Sometime soon (think end of the month), you’ll be able to download the public beta of Essentials.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/06/02/windows-live-essentials-announced.aspx
A few weeks ago we showed you what’s coming in the new Windows Live Office. Today thanks to a recent blog post by Technogran, we’re able to give you a glimpse of its sister-service, Windows Live Photos, which is also based on SkyDrive. Here’s a screenshot of the Windows Live Photos Wave 4 home page, taken directly from the http://hotmailpreview.com website:
Last week we were fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the Windows Live Essentials Preview website (http://windowslivepreview.com/essentials) as it briefly went online before it got locked out to the public again. We showed you the two Photo Gallery videos that we found, and today we’ll show give you a first look at the new Windows Live Sync.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/29/wave-4-windows-live-sync-a-first-look.aspx
Last week we were fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the Windows Live Essentials Preview website (http://windowslivepreview.com/essentials) as it briefly went online before it got locked out to the public again. We showed you the two Photo Gallery videos that we found, and today we’ll show give you a first look at the new Windows Live Sync.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/29/wave-4-windows-live-sync-a-first-look.aspx
Just yesterday we told you about What’s new in Windows Live Essentials Wave 4, and one of our reader Chrilo tipped us about the new demo videos already available on the Windows Live Preview website. While the pages has now been taken down and protected, we were quick to get hold of a couple of the videos posted up there.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/24/windows-live-photo-gallery-wave-4-demo-videos.aspx
Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 was officially unveiled yesterday, and one of the major upgrades to Hotmail is it’s tight integration with SkyDrive and Office Web Apps. As part of the announcement, Microsoft also revealed one of their newest web services – Windows Live Office.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/19/wave-4-windows-live-office-a-first-look.aspx
Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 was officially unveiled yesterday, and one of the major upgrades to Hotmail is it’s tight integration with SkyDrive and Office Web Apps. As part of the announcement, Microsoft also revealed one of their newest web services – Windows Live Office.
Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/19/wave-4-windows-live-office-a-first-look.aspx
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how consumers are using their email and how they manage their inboxes. We’ve also talked about how we decide what to build based on what we hear from customers.
Today, we’re excited to give you a preview of the new Windows Live Hotmail, representing the next generation in personal email.
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how consumers are using their email and how they manage their inboxes. We’ve also talked about how we decide what to build based on what we hear from customers.
Today, we’re excited to give you a preview of the new Windows Live Hotmail, representing the next generation in personal email.
On April 28 in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer previewed the new Windows Live Messenger in his “Five Dimensions of the Cloud†presentation at the Universidade de Sao Paulo. This is the first official announcement around new features in the next generation of Windows Live.
Video: On-demand video of the full speech
Video: Watch a demo of the new Windows Live Messenger
Images: View Messenger screenshots, Brazil event photos coming soon
Over the last few months, we’ve focused this blog on our current software and services – how we build them and how they’re used around the world. We’ve also talked about trends we’ve observed both in the use of our services and in our research with customers. Today marks the point where we shift the focus of our blog from our current services to our next major release – known internally as “Wave 4.â€
For several months now, we’ve had several thousand people running regular builds of this code inside Microsoft, and we’ll shortly begin expanding this testing to some folks outside Microsoft for additional feedback.
