Windows Live Essentials beta is ready for your downloading delight

Could Windows Live Essentials really be "better than Mac for photos, hands down," as per the gauntlet Microsoft's Brian Hall tossed earlier this month? There's only one way to find out, and that's by trying it out yourself with the free download at our source link. The software suite just hit beta with not only the face-recognizing, photo-stitching new rendition of Photo Gallery, but also new versions of Mail, Movie Maker, Messenger, Writer and a Mac-friendly version of the Dropbox-like Sync (no, not that Sync) as well. So... what are you waiting for? Oh, you're still "awwing" at the image above, aren't you?

[XU5 Posted Jun 25th 2010 3:19AM]

Man, I've run in to quite a few bugs/annoyances... Any way to report these?

[XU5 Posted Jun 25th 2010 3:21AM]

@XU5 Nevermind. Went Help>Feedback

[XU5 Posted Jun 25th 2010 3:38AM]

Wow, Microsoft sure has outdone themselves this time with the advertisements...

Advertisement in every window, advertisement on the main form that takes up over half of the window, and if you type Microsoft Office in a conversation - guess what happens? They hyperlink, and underline it. Wow.

[XU5 Posted Jun 25th 2010 3:40AM]

@XU5 Last part of that is wrong - I guess it's just Bing search within WLM - which is does with just about anything you type in that's popular. I must find a way to turn that off

[theevil Posted Jun 25th 2010 4:59AM]

Why the F**K is mine not working, i downloaded it, started it installing, it got to 62% and then crashed!!! Now nothing works, messenger, windows live mail, movie maker!!! All of them just come up with an error F**KING message!!!

[movies Posted Jun 25th 2010 1:32PM]

it's about time...

[sabby Posted Jul 1st 2010 7:15AM]

Downloaded and installed. Was looking good but Live mail app crashed every time and I had to uninstall this ( from Win 7 64bit )

[China Wholesale Mall Posted Aug 19th 2010 10:31AM]

@Dafrety , Live Movie Maker is good for me.