News Windows Live Wave 4 beta released

After weeks or months of teasing, Microsoft have finally made a beta version of the new Windows Live suite available for download and testing.

I grabbed the english web installer version and without any kind of options it has installed the following seperately:

• Windows Live Essentials Beta
• Bing Bar
• Microsoft Default Manager
• Windows Live Sync ActiveX Control for Remote Connection
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition [Enu]
• Windows Live Provider ofr Microsoft Outlook Social Connector

I took the liberty of removing all existing Windows Live applications beforehand, so I don't know how well it deals with upgrades and rebooted after installation.

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So what are you thoughts?

 

Was able to uninstall Writer, Family Safety and Mail afterwards as I just don't use those afterwards.

Very much relieved that there is still a compact version which looks just like the old version just with some slick new bits.