Microsoft’s instant messaging solution works as before with the Messenger and Facebook networks, providing text, audio, and video chat services as well as photo and document sharing and other features. It includes support for Mail, Calendar, Contacts, news feeds, and USENET newsgroups as before. It doesn’t appear to have changed much beyond the name change, but I’ll need to dig deeper before I can be sure.
In the Windows Essential preview, Mail oddly still carries the Windows Live name, perhaps to avoid confusion with the Metro app called Mail in Windows 8. For now, here’s a quick rundown of each application. I’m on the road this week, so I’ll provide a more complete overview in the days ahead. This isn’t surprising, but should answer any lingering questions about the future of Live Mesh. Note: When you install Windows Essentials 2012, Live Mesh is uninstalled and replaced with SkyDrive. You can find the download on the Microsoft web site in both a traditional installer and a web installer. The suite now includes Microsoft Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, SkyDrive (desktop application), Writer, and Messenger. Windows Essentials 2012 is somewhat stripped down from Windows Live Essentials 2011. And the preview versions we see today are pretty nice indeed. But unexpectedly, these apps aren’t just continuing, some are being improved. As expected, the suite and the bundled apps are losing the Windows Live branding. Microsoft has delivered a preview version of its Windows Essentials 2012 suite, the follow-up to its Windows Live Essentials solution.
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