Last week I posted about the future of Windows Live Movie Maker and what we have in store for you later this year.  We’re committed to only releasing a product that meets the high quality bar set by our customers, and we’re working hard to deliver the first official version of Movie Maker soon. Until then, we’re extending the time that Movie Maker beta can be used to the end of this year. If you want to continue playing with the beta version after June 30, 2009, you’ll need to extend the beta by installing a small software update.

Starting July 1, 2009 when you open Movie Maker beta, you’ll be prompted to install the update. If you decide not to install it, you won’t be able to use the beta until you do. By installing the update early, you can continue to use Movie Maker beta without any interruption.

The software update to extend the beta is available here. First choose which language you’d like, and then download and run the update. It’s less than three megabytes, so it’ll only take a minute or two to download over a high-speed connection, or about seven minutes over dial-up.

Again, the official release version of Windows Live Movie Maker is expected to be available later this year, as part of Windows Live Essentials. We’ll let you know on this blog as soon as that official version is available.

Thank you for your continued feedback and for helping us build a great new storytelling product.

- Mike Torres
  Windows Live Movie Maker team

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