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    September 13

    Live.com officially out of Beta

    As a few of you have noticed (here, here, here and others) live.com is officially out of Beta!
     
    We officially released our V1 a couple of days ago. We've been catching up on sleep the past few days and forgot to hit the publish button for our blog entry :) As of a few minutes ago our last piece of rollout is underway and http://search.msn.com has begun to redirect to Live Search.
     
    We have come a long way together, since our release on 11/1/05. We owe our many revisions and improvements to your feedback... check out the pictures to see how far we've come (11/1, 3/7, 3/30, 6/15 and 9/12).
     
     So what's next? some more sleep, a ship party... oh and a ton of cool features we have planned!
     
     

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    Picture of Anonymous
    blegs38552 wrote:
    Whenever I start Live.com, I get the following message under my e-mail "
    Live.com cannot currently access your Windows Live Mail or Hotmail inbox. If your inbox is hosted by Windows Live Mail or Hotmail, click here to reauthenticate. Don't have a Windows Live Mail account? Find out how to join the beta." I have joined the beta, reauthenticated, deleted my email info and re=listed it, nothing seems to work.
     
    Am I  the only one?
    ".
    29 Jan.
    Colm 54wrote:
    I have seen this program improve with leaps and bounds and I understand that there are many hands at work here and perhaps that is where the problems lie, too many hands in the kitchen. I have found a few glitches which prove annoying. One of these is when I send an email to one person cut and paste doesn't work using the mouse controls but does when using keyboard. If I create an email and try to send it I get "your livemail is not available at this time". I dislike having to remember email addressee's initial to add e-addresses to the send bar, it was so much simpler to tick a couple of names in the previous hotmail arrangement to add all the names instead of the hunt and search method today. The layout on the whole is quite colourful but is very congested with stuff forced into every crevice on the screen, I'd love to remove or at least hide most of it so the important work is done without the distraction of all the pretty pictures flashing and twinkling on the periphery. My 2 cents worth. colm54
    21 Jan.
    Kaleb Ngwrote:
    speed up e loading! too slow.. its bugging me most
    16 Jan.
    sAME PROBLEM AS DAVE, EXCEPT ALL DAY LONG... IT SEEMS TO BE GETING WORSE.. EMAIL IS USELESS WHEN i CAN'T ACCESS IT.. WHAT GIVES?
    22 Nov.
    Davidwrote:
    I cannot access my live mail after 11 pm EST. this has been going on for about 2 weeks. It seems to keep reloading several times in a row and gives me an error page.
    20 Nov.
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    NoName wrote:
    The speed of live.com is still extremely lousy - it needs to be fast! The icon in the tab in Internet Explorer 7 is of a round thing; where is the Windows icon???
    And why I delete gadgets by clicking the x I expect it to be completely gone - I don't want to see it in my "My stuff", and having to delete it there too!
    29 Oct.
    Thanks for all the effort in keeping us a'live'!
     
    Keep it up.
     
    27 Oct.
    Picture of Anonymous
    milservuk wrote:
    Hi,
    I am having major difficulties uploading photos to my Windows Live Space. I am running IE7 and Live OneCare, have downloaded the Photo Upload Control, given permission for this in my Active X controls, allowed live.spaces.com in my Pop-Up permissions, but still the damn things will not import.
     
    Amazingly, it all used to work when I was using the Beta versions of all the above, so is it a problem with the final release versions?
     
    What am I doing wrong?  Any suggestions... please??
    24 Oct.
    Jacenwrote:
    Quite simply, I like it ^^
    22 Oct.
    Strange that it's still so damn slow at times.

    And when it won't load at all in IE7, it will often eventually load in Firefox.

    Odd.

    22 Oct.
    Valentinwrote:
    Greetings!
    Is the best at this time! Not only the Space. Search is working unexpected good, appear for me clear more accurate than IBM algorithm, better than Google and Yahoo!
    Please select a design button "Ad To Live" to socialize this portal! Clear this is the entry point for WEB2.0
    First test  at networks!
    21 Oct.
    Picture of Anonymous
    Steve wrote:
    How can I find all the different services 'Live' has to offer. They used to be listed and simple to find.
    20 Oct.
    This is really a GREAT and cool portal now !!
    All the NON MICROSOFT people at work keep asking me about live.com and I hear comments like "Its really a cool feature !!" Wonderful work guys !! Keep it up..
     
    I like the search results too. I wish you can even search the public user groups and present the results.
    Google bought DEJA a while back and many of the searches from people in IT, find the user group search more useful.
     
    Sanjay
     
    20 Oct.
    keep it comen i like it!!!
    19 Oct.
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    olaf12345 wrote:
    Great that the new search engine and portal site is official released and I hope that there are more users in the future.
    By the way, I thought "beta" is a part of web 2.0 ;)
    19 Oct.
    eddie w.wrote:
    hey this live stuff is getting ever more useful. nice job and keep up the good work
    19 Oct.
    Picture of Anonymous
    Jth wrote:
    Oh, and prelude_racer - there doesn't seem to be a way of getting @live.com, even though I would love it; I prefer it much, much, much, much, much, much more over @hotmail.com which is just ....well, ugly - and that's an understatement.
     
    Oh, and does anyone have an email address so I can send my feedback on Windows Media Player 11??
    18 Oct.
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    Jth wrote:
    What ever happened to "oh and a ton of cool features we have planned"??? And why is live.com soooooo slow? You guys really need to speed it up. And why can't I customize my favorites?? Why doesn't it start with a folder view?? And why do I have to see how many links I have (why is there a number in the title bar that shows the number of links (54 in my case))?
    18 Oct.
    hay how do i get a email address like this somthing@live.com????????????
    17 Oct.
    Grahamwrote:
    Yipee!  But...  Is the Windows Live Messenger unstable?  I keep getting an error messege...

    Great work, guys!
    14 Oct.

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