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Originally posted by peakshysteria
One more strange thing is that MS also seem to be experimenting with updating WLM via Windows Update. Once i have gotten this while running Windows Update. And as far as i could tell this was only to verify that it worked. I did not get a new version. This did not give me the version number either. Strange it is. And this should be the best way to secure that people are up to date with the latest version. If Windows Update worked on WLM people didn't have to surf around different sites to find the latest version.
They are indeed planning on doing just that. The Windows Live Installer is one step towards this.
Although, personally, I don't like it for two reasons:
1) You don't have any control anymore what version you download.
This doesn't have to be a problem for most people, but I like to be informed about and be able to download whatever version I want. In the "good old days" we could simply go to the Download Center, download the setup and be done with it. Nowadays we must start up Windows Live Installer, let it install the (latest) version, check the installer logs, copy the link to the MSI package being downloaded, copy the MSI package to our "archive" for safe keeping....
2) Not everybody actually uses Windows Update. (I don't know why, but many people don't)
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Originally posted by peakshysteria
Since they never are prompted for an update or because the official sites doesn't give them the latest version.
Update prompts are only shown in two cases:
1) When there is a major update and people could choose if they install it or not.
2) When there is a security bug fixed and people need to update (forced update).
And all that happens only if the official site has been updated first (otherwise it wouldn't be logic to tell people to update if there isn't any public update available yet)!!
In other cases (small build fixes), nothing is shown for a long period of time. Which is, I think, a pitty indeed. Eventually people will get an update notification though.
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Originally posted by peakshysteria
So while we wait for Windows Update to actually work on WLM, how about posting links to the different build on the main page here? In that way people are up to date with the latest WLM and the latest Messenger Plus! Live as well. Win-win i think for everyone. Win for us the users and for both MS and the MPL community as a whole.
The problem with that now is that MS uses those Windows Live Installers.
As said, what you actually download from the official sites are small (2MB) download tools. Those tools on their turn will check for the (latest?) version and start downloading it.
This makes that you can't have direct official links anymore to the actual setup packages of WLM, like it was before.
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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
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Originally posted by peakshysteria
the official site for WLM didn't give me the latest version (as you say it will CookieRevised). This also have occured in the past. Strange again.
There is currently a leaked BETA of 9.0 out which may be what you are finding, where MS only has 8.5 on the site
we're not talking about that though
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Anyways, I'll post some official download center links in a minute, hang on
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