Microsoft recently released Windows Live Wave Three. Here is our take on the new versions of Live Mail, Photo Gallery,Live Messenger, Movie Maker, And Live Writer. Distributed by Tubemogul.


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Well, Microsoft recently released what is called Windows Live Wave 3 and if you are not familiar with this, essentially what Microsoft is doing this, they are having a whole host of applications that is kind of work a little bit in the cloud, but also their local installs. I will give you an example, Windows Live Messenger is a good example, lot of us who is the business do use messenger but Microsoft has taken that step further with sweeter products and they put a live logo where there is a male, there is photo gallery, messenger, movie maker and writer. I love some of these applications. I absolutely love Windows Live Writer. It is a blogging tool. It makes it very to easy to create blogs, to embed things like hyperlinks and video and all these wonderful things if you have not tried it, if you do write blogs, you got to try live writer free. It is so simple to use that anybody I think can pick write on it. This newest version has fixed a lot of bugs and it was that your prior version of Live Writer was a little flaky at times, it just crap out on you unexpectedly but I think they are kind of addresses this new version of it. Windows Live Mail is the replacement for Outlook Express. You know it support things like your hot mail. All of your email accounts and the ones in central location, very, very sharp looking application. Do not use it here, use outlook but for a lot of people, Windows Live Mail may just be the ticket of what you are looking for. Photo Gallery that is a great application. Now, for whatever reason it is very, very slow on my machine to get loaded but I have notice something with Windows Live, it store back the Windows Live search bar, toolbar in Internet Explorer packly sits in the Internet in an Explorer. It just set there, I get a little blue spinning hamster wheel vista until I actually more or less have to disable that. I do not know if there is a problem on our end here or something but Windows Live Messenger, very slow to get connected, but ultimately it does. I have been on the firm with Microsoft, they can seem to fix problem we pipe the computers, re installed Vista, all this stuff because in my mind, all of these stuff.. This has been my experience, I do not think maybe a lot of people, I do not know, I have Google it and when you type in Google, you got a Windows Live and it is going slow, you get thousands and thousands of hits but that being said, Photo Gallery, once it does load, it very, very sleek, although I happen to be a Pecaso fun for a basic image editing. I certainly like Adobe, not Photoshop, they have a kind of a consumer version which is more than enough for what I do with the but Photo Gallery may very well suit your needs. Windows Messenger that is the Microsoft’s chat program. It looks very, very sharp and then finally, and this is kind of something new, Movie Maker. They are now are going to uncouple movie maker from windows to this windows live thing and I briefly looked at it and if you are looking for a robust video editor, I do not think you are going to find it movie maker. Now, I think it is much more strip down. Before I can really give you my opinion, it just seems to me like it is designed more for getting videos quick and dirty videos get it and upload the things like YouTube or something like that. I am going to look at this more than a deeper but the interesting thing about this Windows Live thing, if you look at it, you will see the future interface of windows in the next version of windows, version 7 Viena, do you like the looks of the Windows Live application that I think you are going to be very pleased with what you are going to do with Windows 7. I think they are kind of feeling the waters on this, the whole user interface. I could be wrong, I do not know but I think that is going to happen. But I think that Windows Live Messenger is a very, very good chat application. Windows Live Writer, I cannot quit, I just think it is awesome. Do not pay for a blogging tool. Get this thing. I think you will be extremely happy with it. Writer, this is great. Live Mail, I do