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Windows Live Messenger:made available to the public.
The successor to MSN Messenger 7.5, Windows Live Messenger 8 is the first edition of the Messenger brand to be released under the new 'Windows Live'.

Windows Live represents Microsoft biggest push into the Software-as-a-Service market. Windows Live Messenger is the first software package to be released out of beta in the Windows Live range, with Windows Live Search (Desktop), Windows Live Mail Desktop and Windows Live Toolbar expected to follow later this year.

Direct Link to DL : http://g.msn.com/8reen_us/EN_NOUS/INSTALL_MSN_MESSENGER_DL.EXE ( For WINDOWS XP ONLY)

Visit http://messenger.msn.com/ for more downloads.

This is what i was waiting for! A topic about the new "Windows messenger live" So anyone tried it? Should i try it? Wanted to wait for the autoupdate of my messenger..guess it's a whole different thing and it won't autoupdate..

ps. Next time quote your source.

The source is from me. Just browsed http://messenger.msn.com and found out that the new version is out. So thought would be a good news to post it here.

I was using the final beta release with mess.be patch - if patching is illegal here, moderator can edit my post. As i found out the patch for the new version of Windows LIVE is out too. (mess.be just remove the advertisements from the messenger windows, give u a professional clean look)

I downloaded the new version right after posting my previous post and patched it also. Working nice and cool.

Anyone here who can tell me anyplace where i can get emotiocons and winks without the spywares and adwares and viruses ? And ofcourse it should be free

Btw... autoupdate will not work if ur using 7.5, since its a whole new branding from msn messenger to windows live. Since its the final new release of windows live 8.. any updates will be auto, hopefully.

Cheerz

I ain't moving till they have their second patch out for it. Besides, it doesn't matter what version it is if it works for me..

I don't why it would be wrong for you to tell us that you are running a patched version? 'tis your choice.


As for the smilies, use google and a proper browser to avoid the spyware (ie. firefox/opera/anything other than IE)

Windows LIVE Messenger 8.0 build 8.0.0792.00 is running in my PC since the last 12 hrs now. Haven't used it much since i was afk usually during these last 12 hrs. But it doesn't seem to crash down - So guess - 1 test is successful

Seen lots of those adult smileys ppl use in msn. and whenever i ask em - they says they got it from friend. Does anyone got em ? the gifs ones. who can do a zip file for me here plz.

Thz

Yeah, err, google.

And if you've seen the smilies, you know you can copy and add them as your own smilie, right?

Has this only been released publically recently or something? I've had WLM running on this PC for months and months now...though I'm probably a couple of versions behind at this stage.

Everything I need MSN for is sending messages and sending/recieving files... thats about what Miranda on Windows and Als Messenger on Linux can do .

De Kus wrote:Everything I need MSN for is sending messages and sending/recieving files... thats about what Miranda on Windows and Als Messenger on Linux can do .

Yeah this is the thing I would like to know.. Have they improved the thingy to send files yet? Like resume? They didn't say anything about that on the site.

well the msn 8.0 is the new release as i know of - publicly. I been using the beta of msn 8.0 for months now and i got the ful released version now.

And nah i tried file transfer - no resume features in that.

Yahoo 8.0 is suppose to be out soon ( its still in beta). Its saying it will have support to add msn live IDs and to chat with them. The idea is cool. Using msn and yahoo with 1 messenger. but these types of programs is already out and is a success with some minor bugs now and again too. So dunno why yahoo and msn are doing this together now. Not that they will combine yahoo chat server and will allow msn users to use yahoo chat rooms ? That would be a nice thing to do. Dunno why msn didn't done a msn chat room like yahoo did.

Well we can all just wait and see what yahoo got planned for msn.

I really dislike Yahoo's messenger, the old one anyway. I think I'll stick with MSN's one
And yeah, it would seem that I'm still running one of the old betas.

Also, MSN used to have chat rooms but they were closed a few years ago because of the lack of care and moderation being taken with them.

very nice and cool interface

i tried it AND don't like it, i'm gonna stick with trillian until there is something better, i like trillian, no annoying extra smily'es, no annoying sounds, fully configurabel, simple fast, multi-protocol, and usefull extensions, you should give it a try

I don`t like Yahoo! Messanger cause it`s bloated and unstable and full of very anoying things ,as for MSN ,no friends of mine use it ,and I`m in linux more than windows so I`ll stick to kopete ,it has a cooler interface then MSN and Yahoo anyway ,and it supports both protocols.

Personally, I prefer bitlbee. I get my irc, msn, yahoo and aim I believe, all from within irssi, so I don't even have to switch programs to chat on a different network... Well, that and the fact that there are no anoying sounds or anything. The only problem I have found with it is that you have to PM anyone if you want to talk to them, and it can become quite anoying to have to type something like "/msg [email protected]" every time you want to type that person a message