Windows Live Essentials 2011 RC to touch down September 10(GMT+8)


Recommended Posts

Anyone know if this new version gets rid of that annoying HUGE and wholly unnecessary splash screen when it loads?

Doubt it

Usually the Live website will announce a new release before it is going live - there is no mention of it anywhere on the site, only the beta

if it was to be released today it would probably be in 1.5hrs as thats when MS and Apple usually release things.

Anyone know how to change the background colour of conversation windows? I can change the main window colour but can't figure out how to change the background colour of conversation windows, i want it black.

Any news? I'm guessing if it's GMT + 8 it would be 2am saturday 11th by now? Since its 18:25pm in GMT now... This looks disappointing, mainly because most sites that would report it like LiveSide have nothing on it.

According to Taiwan Microsoft, Windows Live Essentials 2011 RC will be a public milestone release, and the bits will touch down for all of us to enjoy come September 10th. (GMT+8)

This source has pointed out a few changes made in recent builds to us which hint that the RC ? and following that milestone, the RTM ? are very close:

1. Windows Live Mesh branding has been present in internal builds for 2 weeks, essentially "replacing" Live Sync branding; and interesting article outlining this change and the history of Mesh can be found on LiveSide.

2. The Windows Live Essentials 2011 logo is now in the installer, and the installer has an overall updated UI.

3. Refresh button added to the social stream.

4. 'BETA' word removed from the software, replaced with '2011′. So the titlebar of Windows Live Messenger, for example, reads 'Windows Live Messenger 2011′.

5. It is unknown what build Microsoft have selected for the RC, but 15.4.3119.0902 is the latest internal build being seeded out to early adopters.

6. Those who have used recent builds claim drastic improvements in performance. Also, those installing these recent, pre-RC builds are not required to restart their machines.

Hopefully not.

No idea as it does not even look like we are going to see it for another week now... And also, the splash screen was fine, better than the old login screen, this looks much better.

if it did, do you think i would be asking?

Yep italian and it says

"If we see this time our informant is right"

and undernearth the ringed one it says:

"new build of Windows Live Essentials candidate for rc: 15.4.3129.0914. waiting to know the date of issue"

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • Deal for those who want 1900 size electronics in their house? with 2026/7 hardware mhm.. not nice
    • Cheap labour, the same as the U.K. China pays their people pittance.
    • Those people that come over here on boats are already in a safe country, if they want to come over here then do so correctly though the right channels. I was born in the U.K, my family that came over here came so via the proper means. My partner came here via the correct channels, she also became a British citizen, she knows more about this country than most of them that was born here, including myself, she worked hard to do what she does. She will stick up for this country and have done a few times, when people from her own part of world have put the U.K down. We are not going to agree, all I said to start with is that maybe Trump has the right idea with this America first thing and maybe we should start doing the same. Maybe not as drastic as what he is doing, but we do need to sort this country out, we need to sort out tech instead of relying on the U.S and others. Again you have not shown why you are so annoyed that we have left the E.U and this is what it is all about? If you don't live in the U.K and live in the E.U are you annoyed that we left your little club? If you live in the U.K and is pro-E.U, then fair enough then I can see how it annoys you. Are you one of these people who lives in the U.K and have a holiday chalet in the E.U and can now only stay there for so long? If so, then that is bad luck. As I have posted before, I have no problem with people coming here to work, as long as they do if via the proper channels. We are out of the E.U, people voted out, and maybe if more people had voted instead of sitting on their backsides the results would have been different. But they like the E.U and our government thought no we would not vote to leave. How wrong they were, surprised me. I expected to wake up in the morning and hear on the radio that we voted to stay. As I said, we are out and have been for 10 years, we are not going to go back in anytime soon if we ever do, so we all need to make the best of how things are. Anyway, this is supposed to be a tech site.
    • Tim Cook: "The US over time began to stop having as many vocational kinds of skills." What's the point of wasting time getting those skills if you can't get a job with them? Good Lord, maybe he and his cohort of CEO's who exported all these jobs to China should just shut the f**k up :D
  • Recent Achievements

    • Conversation Starter
      jessse3334 earned a badge
      Conversation Starter
    • Reacting Well
      JuvenileDelinquent earned a badge
      Reacting Well
    • One Month Later
      Excellence2025 earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Excellence2025 earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Week One Done
      flexorcist earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      502
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      214
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      150
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      74
    5. 5
      macoman
      62
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!