In addition, the ribbon user interface was incorporated into Mail, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, and Writer. It was also announced that Windows Live Toolbar will be discontinued and replaced by the Bing Bar. For Windows Live Mesh, the application has been rewritten to be based on the previous Live Mesh and will allow PC and Mac users to keep their documents, pictures and music in sync across multiple computers.

The updated applications include Windows Live Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Family Safety, Mesh, and Messenger Companion. Microsoft released a public beta for the next major update for Windows Live Essentials dubbed 'Wave 4' on June 24, 2010.

Previous versions were also available on Windows XP and Windows Vista, and included Windows Live Messenger. Windows Essentials applications support installation on Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. It reached end of support on January 10, 2017, and it isn't available in Windows 10. We're no longer offering the Windows Essentials 2012 suite for download, but if you already have it installed, it will continue to work as it does today.

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