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WELL PLACED SOURCES tell us that Google is going to be buying Valve any second now. If you have to stop and think about why, you probably are not aware of Steam, Valve’s amazing content distribution platform.

Google Portal may be a nice idea, but that is irrelevant. Google Content Distribution (Beta) however should make just about every other competitor lose several years of sleep, most of their remaining hair, and large gobs of stock price.

Valve has the best content distribution platform out there, bar none. Steam may have had rough patches here and there, but they are almost all ironed out now, and just about everyone that matters has signed up to use it.

Read more @ theinquirer.net

You can choose two methods for Download… either it is a web-setup as this Screenshot:

Or you can download the full Wave 3 to your computer which are almost 140MBs, shown here:

Some other screenies here:

Windows Live Messenger:

Windows Live Mail – Calendar

Download here!

English
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-all.exe

Italian
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/it/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/it/wlsetup-all.exe

German 
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/de/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/de/wlsetup-all.exe

France
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/fr/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/fr/wlsetup-all.exe

Spanish
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/es/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/es/wlsetup-all.exe

If you find anything more, please let us know in the comments.

Zakeh team

Mary-Jo Foley’s blog reports some of the new things in Microsoft’s internally released Windows 7 milestone.
The successor to Windows Vista is only about a year away and scheduled to go into beta next month. The ribbon UI from Office 2007 seems to have migrated into some of the Windows Vista applications. A few other observations include that Powershell is part of the build along with rewritten versions of MS Paint, Calculator, and Word Pad.
Read the whole thing here.

View: All About Microsoft