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Windows Live Wave 4: New Header Images Shown

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28/02/2010

Wave 4, Windows Live

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Last week I wrote an article showing how the various new Windows Live Wave 4 themes will all be based off Windows 7 wallpapers from just looking at the themes’ icons. On Friday Liveside were able to show the full header and not just the icon.

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Below you can see different headers being used.

Another change we can expect to see with the themes is that users will no longer need to click any buttons to change their theme but are presented with the theme selection by just hovering over the header.

Lets hope its not too far away before we can start to use these new themes.

Windows Live Tags: Windows Live, Wave 4

http:gadgetgran.spaces.live.com technogran

I am not keen in any of them to be honest! Although the Live Essentials Suite are obviously an intergral part of Windows 7, the Windows Live site isn’t, and this seems like a very lazy way of doing new themes for Windows Live.
Let’s hope that we will all be able to upload our own pictures and use them as we can inside Live Messenger. Very disappointing!
http://mymicrosoftlife.com Gilly

Yeah, many aren’t anything special and I don’t really use the default Win7 wallpapers. It would be great to upload our own wallpapers and also to have the header images slideshow like they do on the desktop.
http:gadgetgran.spaces.live.com technogran

By the way Gilly, where did you get the tag cloud from? It’s really attractive.
Thanks
http://mymicrosoftlife.com/2010/03/21/windows-live-wave-4-small-new-features/ My Microsoft Life » Windows Live Wave 4: Small New Features

[...] Messenger Wave 4 features the same scenes or themes that will be found on the online services and the mobile services. I don’t yet know if these themes are dynamic or static but hopefully I will find out over the coming days. [...]

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