I'm looking for the Live Sync Wave 3 installer (not the Live Sync Wave 4 beta). I googled for it quite a bit, but it seems every site is linking to the now gone sync.live.com and I cant find a mirror of the installer.

IMO, that's warez.

But isn't that freeware? (Correct me if I'm wrong)

But it's still an "RTM" product.

I don't see a problem as long as it's freeware...

Seems like I misunderstood that rule.
Anyway, this has been superseeded by Windows Live Mesh.
The Wayback machine hasn't got it archived. I'm afraid I can't help.

That was my personal opinion, I don't know the exact rule on this either... :/ So don't take it for granted, but considering it's a free product you can't really pirate it so I don't think anything could be wrong with posting links here.

Over the last few days Beta Archive has got a lot more confusing in terms of rules...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez


I have the Windows Live Mesh client (part of the Live Essentials 2011 aka Wave 4), but I want to check out some things from the previous release. It's a shame nobody's archiving all these small nifty MS tools on a regular basis.

Nevermind. I found it: http://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2008 ... lications/
It doesn't work anymore - it fails at signing-in.

No, warez is the sharing of a closed source product. So CNET is going to get shutdown for hosting FREE Microsoft programs? I don't think so.

No, warez is what we call products that are commercial, i.e sold for money and then illegally shared, cracked or in any other way not paid for but still in use.

If it's a freeware program (if the author never charged money for it) then it's not warez, it's freeware. Of course it may still be illegal (depending on the country laws) to share it on your own site (check the authors licenses) but it's still freeware and free for you to use. May I remind you that most freeware IS closed source since they are most often coded and compiled without providing the source code. And open source can still be warez as well (some linux distributions etc) if the distribution comes with a special license or is being sold in stores without the opportunity to download or compile the product in its full version.

Either way, I don't see a problem linking to freeware as long as it is really freeware, i.e not sold anywhere and given for free on the net by the author of the software (in this case Microsoft). WLM for example is freeware, so is DirectX and these comes on tons of shareware CDs etc that are bundled with magazines. And you can find them on tons of legit shareware and download sites all over the net as well, outside Microsofts servers.