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Microsoft shows off Live Essentials
SOFTWARE DARK STAR Microsoft has shown off its first upgrade to Live Essentials for Windows 7.
Basically the Vole's Live Essentials is a suite of free programs, including Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Messenger, Sync, and Mail. It might even be popular, and Microsoft says the tools have over 500 million daily users, so we will guess we will take its word for that.
The Vole claims its new stuff improves the software packages. For example Photo Gallery now has facial recognition and sorting to existing tools like quick Auto Adjust and Retouch. Another new feature, Photo Fuse, lets you take the best parts from similar pictures and merge them together.
Movie Maker now has Automovie themes, which lets you easily apply snazzy themes, visuals, text, and other effects to your movies.
You can then share them with your Flickr and Facebook friends if you have them. The facial recognition feature finds and tags people in your photos.
The email program now lets you control several accounts, calendars, RSS feeds, contacts and newsgroups all in one place. You can send 10GB of photos per email, and there is instant messaging in the inbox and conversation threading.
There are tweaks to the Sync feature, which let you sync an updated folder from one computer to another. With a new remote desktop feature, you can also sync to other computers via an Internet connection, or view files on another computer from a remote device.
Of course it all works only on Microsoft Windows, so we're not sure how well it will be supported. But we reckon you can count on the Vole to 'update' it soon to force you to buy more of its proprietary software. µ
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Quote: "Of course it all works only on Microsoft Windows, so we're not sure how well it will be supported. But we reckon you can count on the Vole to 'update' it soon to force you to buy more of its proprietary software."
You complain about a free update for a free MS software suite AND then you complain yet again that it only works for MS Windows?
Of course the last bit is priceless as it doesn't make sense. Then again, maybe I need to add a can of aerosol to my diet in order to extract any meaning out of it.
Or am I missing some kind of sarcasm?
I think perhaps 10MB of photos per email, unlikely it is 10GB.
And how do they know 500 million users? People login with their Hotmail/Live Mail accounts. No evil spyware necessary.
"the tools have over 500 million daily users", without some pretty major spyware reporting back to Evil Central.
They update free software and you moan. Why?
If this was Apple you would have to buy the latest OSX release for these updates.
Also you say its only supported on Windows platforms and you made out like its not a broad enough platform. LOL.
The funny thing is people slag Nick off but atleast he knows what he is on about.