> Get ready for the new Windows Live
Breaking news - Office Web Apps (Word, Excel,
PowerPoint and OneNote) are now available at
office.live.com.
If that link doesn't work for you, try
this one.
Create a new Word or Excel document to try things out.
As well the new Wave 4 has started appearing as part
of the update to Windows Live Internet Web services - you'll
know by the change in appearance of the Live web page header
where it'll have links to Hotmail, (Web) Messenger, Office and
Photos.
The beta (i.e., trial) version of Windows Live Essential 2011
- as it's now known -
was refreshed on August 17 and you can install from
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta.
webDotWiz has written up a couple of introductory
articles: on Live Photo Gallery
here and
here; and, using the keyboard with the ribbon,
here.
Find out what features will be
in the new Wave 4 version by following the Windows Live links below.
Browse the Windows Live page (click the menu link on the left or
click here) to see what you can do with the free Windows Live
programs and services.
Windows Live consists of:
- Live Essentials: free software such as Live Mail, Live
Messenger, Live Photo Gallery and Live Movie Maker that you download and
install; and
- Live Internet Services:
free online services such as Live
Calendar, Live Hotmail, Live Spaces for your own website,
Live Photos and Live Skydrive for online storage
of photos and documents.
News: Live Essentials has had a minor update
as of May 12. This will be the last version for Windows XP. Get the update from
download.live.com.
You can download the free Windows Live Essentials programs from
download.live.com.
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> Latest links to sites of interest
webDotWiz's list of links to sites with news about Windows Live and other interesting news from around the web.
Click here (updated Thursday, 2
September 2010).
>
Latest webDotWiz Online column 2 Sept
It's the small things in Live that make Windows Live Essentials 2011 so enjoyable to use. Find out some little tricks from webDotWiz
that you can use in Live Messenger, Live Hotmail, Live Photo
Gallery and Live Movie Maker. It's all
here in this week's column.
This week webDotwiz
has some more hints on using the new Hotmail's Insert menu
toolbar to send photos and documents in your emails - no need to
any longer worry about the total size of your attachments with
the help of Live Skydrive.
Everybody now has the new Hotmail.
Get the best out of it, such as
seeing how to use Sweep to clean out your inbox, creating and
managing folders, and reading just emails from your social
contacts or those containing photos that family and friends have
posted.
Bits of the latest version of the Windows Live web services
are slowly starting to appear for all users. In
his column of July 8
webDotWiz took you
through a few hints and tips so you can get the best out of
what's new.
2010 begins the second decade of webDotWiz Online. The
first column went online
on February 10, 2000. You can read the content
here and a list of a few
sites was published
here (a few of which still exist believe it or not).
A reminder that you can look back to past webDotWiz Online
columns in the columns archive.
As well, you'll find the list of sites that go with each week's webDotWiz column
on the Sites Archive menu button.
Links to some of the latest sites which webDotWiz has added
to the sites listing can be found on the
latest links page.
> It's easy to keep up to date
Keep up to date with how you can use
Windows Live
here at webDotWiz Online or
at webDotWiz Online has a Space
which is updated daily. Lots of other interesting sites are linked to
as well.
> It's easy to find past columns and sites
Check the Columns Archive and
Sites Archive for previous columns
and sites.
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