Download Windows Live Wave 3 beta standalone offline / online installer

Wave 3 of Microsoft's Windows Live beta program will soon go public all around the world. That does not mean you'll have to wait till the official public launch to get hold of new builds of Windows Live apps. We provide you with the direct download links from Microsoft, using which you can download the apps before official launch.

The following programs are available under Windows Live Wave 3 beta:

• Windows Live Messenger 9 build 14.0.5027.908
• Windows Live Movie Maker
• Windows Live Mail
• Windows Live Writer
• Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Windows Live Family Safety
• Outlook Connector

As with most previous releases, the most popular app of the bunch will be Windows Live Messenger (WLM), the instant messaging program. Wave 3 beta includes an updated build of WLM (build 14.0.5027.908).

Download

You can download wave 3 beta releases of aforementioned apps directly from Microsoft. For your convenience, we have provided links to both web installer and offline standalone installer. With the web installer you get to choose which apps to download beforehand and with the offline installer you can download full setup files of all applications into your hard disk and then install them as you please.

Download Windows Live Wave 3 beta web installer

Download Windows Live Wave 3 beta standalone offline installer

Download Skype for Windows

Make free PC to PC calls from your computer – yep free calls to other people on Skype and great rates to phones and mobiles across the world. And the sound quality is excellent, too – keep Skype running all day and it’s like you’re in the same room as the person you’re talking to.

Features

• Free PC to PC calls to people anywhere in the world.
• Free video calls – plus get more detail than ever before with High Quality Video.
• Call phones and mobiles at great low rates per minute.
• Instant message for free when it’s not a good time to talk.
• Forward your calls to your mobile when you’re offline.
• Send SMS messages to people on mobiles.
• Comes with the Google Toolbar (optional install).

System requirements

• PC running Windows 2000, XP or Vista. (Windows 2000 users require DirectX 9.0 for video calls).
• Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls).
• Speakers and microphone – built-in or separate.
• For voice and video calls we recommend a computer with at least a 1GHz processor, 256 MB RAM and of course a webcam.
• For High Quality Video calls you will need a high quality video webcam and software, a dual-core processor computer and a fast broadband connection (384 kbps).

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Skype 3.8 for Windows

Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta

Here are some links to download and try the new beta version of Windows Live Messenger 9.0.

Don’t forget to post your experience in the comments.

Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (Mirror 1)
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (Mirror 2)
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (Mirror 3)
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (Mirror 4)
Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (Mirror 5)

Download Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (MediaFire Mirror)

Download Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta For Windows

Yahoo! Messenger is one of the most used Instant Messenger. Yahoo! Messenger 9 Beta is out and is ready for you to download.

Yahoo! Messenger 9 is the brand new version in the Yahoo Messenger family and is currently in a beta phase.

Yahoo! Messenger 9 now supports Windows Vista by default and is available in six new different languages. This new version has a lot of GUI changes and a very attractive new design. There are also some annoying new alerts which ask you to choose from IM, VoIP chat and SMS every time you click on a contact to start a conversation.

Besides Yahoo! Messenger 9 has some very new interesting features which make content sharing easy and fast e.g now whenever you post a YouTube video link in one of your conversions, automatically the video is displayed in-line and the same goes for services like Yahoo! Videos and Flickr too.

Plus you will find some cool new avatars and emoticons in this new version. Yahoo! Messenger 9 can be download from:

Click here to Download Yahoo Messenger