Re: Latest Windows Live Essentials Programs Released

**roy69** · 16 Dec 2010

The only reason I can see that it is not included as an integeral part of windows and not included in the windows update is because of the trouble they had with IE, they had to offer alternatives made by other companies. The way that it is done now is as a bundle that is an add on to windows rather than part of it. Just my view

.

**SGT Oddball** · 06 Jul 2011

This week, we will release an update to Windows Live Essentials 2011. In addition to changes that improve performance and quality of service, the update also includes full support for SSL in Windows Live Mail, and the latest Bing bar. Here are a few of things we think you’ll find the most interesting:

Mail: We fixed a sorting issue in the Sent items folder and improved the upload reliability and instrumentation in Photo mail.
Messenger: We fixed a couple of stability issues and made various changes for improved voice and video quality. We fixed an issue that was causing sound to be lost after upgrading, and we improved performance when displaying the MSN Today page in the main window.
Photo Gallery: We implemented various bug fixes for crashes related to launching Photo Gallery through Autoplay and facial recognition.
And more: We made many other usability, performance, and stability improvements across the suite of Windows Live Essentials apps.

We will be rolling this update out in 2 phases. Starting this week, it will be available at http://explore.live.com and on Microsoft Download Center. Later this month, existing Windows Live Essentials 2011 customers will be prompted to update to this version. At that time, it will be offered as an optional update. You can see if you already have the latest and greatest by checking the build version number in Help About, which for this update is 15.4.3538.0513.

On behalf of the entire team, thank you for using Windows Live and for all your feedback that helps us continue to improve our products.

Arthur de Haan

Windows Live Test and Service Engineering

More...

**Brink** · 13 Apr 2012

New 15.4.3555.0308 version of Microsoft Essentials released. See first post for more details.

**dickivy** · 14 Jun 2012

Are you aware that this update has caused problems for many users and there is no way to "roll back" the changes? Users are getting an error "unable to initialize canvas" when we try to open our mail and a similar error when trying to send email mail. I have found no fix for this and no way to rollback the changes. My email was useless. I had to uninstall live and reinstall to fix the problem. Is there a fix for this anomaly?

Rich

**dickivy** · 20 Jun 2012

When is Microsoft going to fix the windows live essentials update?

**Brink** · 08 Aug 2012

The new Windows Essentials 2012 is only available for Windows 7 and Windows 8 now.

Vista will have to continue to use Windows Live Essentials 2011.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Latest Windows Live Essentials 2011 Update [KB2434419] has corrupted Hotmail accounts	sassofalco	Browsers & Mail	14	23 May 2011
Windows Live Essentials.	avgwarhawk	Windows Updates	5	22 Oct 2010
Minor update to Essentials released today	SGT Oddball	Vista News	0	12 May 2010
Microsoft Security Essentials Released.	JMH	System Security	0	29 Sep 2009
Microsoft Security Essentials “Morro” Beta RELEASED !	hackerman1	System Security	3	23 Jun 2009