NO Windows Live in WM6 750 A

[alpenbum]

this kinda sucks but there is no messenger nor hotmail capability in the new wm6 750 att official. this sucks!

[dma1965]

Jeesh, just download it. It took me about 30 seconds to find it in this forum. Go to this thread and there are a bunch of builds of the program to install:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=334621&highlight=WLM+build+1400.CAB

[sjeff]

do the downloads still exist? probably me, but i can't get anything to download and i'm already missing my windows live.

[cbv]

I spent more than 1 hour on the phone with Palm support last night (what a nightmare, I had two people asking me to hold for more than 15 min and then hanging up on me... finally got the answer from the third person after more than half hour on the phone with her).

Basically this is what I was told:

1) There is no Windows Live in the AT&T version. AT&T stripped it out. Period. They want you to use Xpress Mail and their Instant Messaging instead of Windows Live. Palm support installed WM6 on an unlocked Treo 750 and it DID have Windows Live, so it was AT&T's decision. However, Palm will try you to think that you don't get it by pointing the Mobile IM (AT&T's messenger), then by pointing you to Windows Live using a browser, then to Xpress Mail. It really got me angry until they got my point that Windows Live is NOT included in the upgrade.

2) I pointed out to Palm that the manual that you download with the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade HAS Windows Live in it (page 133 unless they replaced it). That really made me mad. The manual is called "treo750att_UGupdate.pdf" yet it contains features that are NOT included (such as Windows Live). Way to do quality check Palm...

3) I did the setup of Xpress Mail to Hotmail and I am having problems. The thing doesn't synchronize (it dies with an error saying that it cannot connect to the server).

If anybody has a chance to post in more places over the net with this information, please do it. I really feel cheated by upgrading to Windows Mobile 6 (there is no downgrade to version 5) and loosing Pocket MSN (which was now replaced by Windows Live and not included in the AT&T version).

Enough said. This is a bad image for those of us who have been waiting for almost a year for the upgrade. We get the upgrade and we are cheated (by AT&T and then Palm by not doing a quality check on the features they are publishing in their manual).

If they have replaced the manual and eliminated Windows Live from it (page 133), shot me an e-mail and I will send you a copy of the one I downloaded.