Windows Live Movie Maker Beta, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Family Safety, Windows Live Toolbar In this regard, users will be able to see that the Essentials installer will also deploy Microsoft Application Error Reporting, Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime, Microsoft Live Communications Platform, Windows Live Call, Junk Mail Filter update, SQL Server CE 3.1, Direct3D 9, Windows Live Sync, the Search Enhancement Pack, Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime, Microsoft Sync Framework Services, and. It is important to note that Windows Live Essentials will also install a wide range of extra components accompanying the main applications. A single installation provides Windows users, the experience is by no means limited to Windows 7 as it is also available for earlier versions of the Windows operating system, with instant messaging, plus email, blogging and photo viewing clients.

With the user interaction down to a minimum, Windows Live Essentials installer will integrate with Windows 7 a plethora of items such as: Messenger, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Family Safety, Toolbar (all in Beta Refresh stage for the time being) but also additional programs including Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, Office Live Add-in, and Microsoft Silverlight. Microsoft has streamlined the deployment process as much as possible, allowing the users to select the components they want installed and let the installer do all the heavy lifting, as you can see from the adjacent screenshots. Installing Windows Live Essentials on Windows 7 At this point in time, users can still download Windows Live Essentials Beta Refresh, which integrates seamlessly with Windows 7, even with pre-Beta releases of the next iteration of the Windows client, namely Build 6956. By mid-November, Brian Hall, general manager for the Windows Live Business Group, was promising that Essentials were going to be finalized “soon.” On December 15, the software giant indicated that it was very close to wrapping up Windows Live Essentials, focusing on resolving a few last kinks in a Beta Refresh development milestone, before signing-off the code. Microsoft released Widows Live Essentials into Beta in September 2008.

Collectively known as Windows Live Essentials, the package contains Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, Toolbar, and Family Safety.

And yet, only with Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3 did Windows Live Essentials find an identity, namely the bridge between the desktop client and the Cloud. There are few still remembering that talk of Windows Live Essentials debuted all the way back in 2006, even before Windows Vista was released to manufacturing and over a year ahead of Windows Live Wave 2, which introduced the centralized Installer for all Windows Live desktop clients.

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