The Bing Bar does not work well with Firefox at all, its buggy, huge, and terrible. On the downside it automatically installs in Firefox too, and there is no option to not install it, which sucks. The bar is somewhat useful if you are an Internet Explorer (IE) user. We’ve already written a full review on the Bing Bar and little (if anything) has changed since.
This could be really useful for keeping an eye on the kids, or an excellent forensic tool for you the next time you need to go fix your crazy virus-downloading grandfather’s PC. Use Family Safety long enough and it will start to generate a detailed list of every website that the designated computer user has visited. The feature that surprised me was the activity logging. It can block websites and programs, or just limit their use. The Live Family Safety app is a unique app that expands on the already built-in Windows Parental Controls. I personally can say I won’t be leaving compact view. Thankfully they’ve included a button to switch the messenger back to the compact view we know and love. I’m not sure if Microsoft is trying to make the new Facebook (of course they are), if they’ve gone crazy, or if they just want messenger to be super-bloated. It seriously makes Messenger about 4 times larger than it ever needs to be. The first and possibly biggest mistake they’ve made with the new version is the HUGE social tab. The Live Messenger is more or less what we’ve always seen with MSN Messenger. Below I’ll be briefly showing you each Live Essential application, and you can decide for yourself if you think they are worth it for YOU to install. Personally, I won’t be using all of these applications, but I’ve gone ahead and installed them all just to write this article. All the Apps are listed with a checkbox, so you can pick and choose exactly what you want. Depending on what you already have installed, some of the Suite installs as new or updated.
The installer will open up the menu shown in the screenshot below, and you’ll then be able to pick and choose which programs you want to download and install. You can pick up a copy for yourself at (at the time of this writing.) The site will have you download a 1.2 MB file called wlsetup-webc.exe, which is the installer. The Live Essentials Beta package is available to everyone for download. As always, the entire suite of software is 100% free.
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