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Because inviting or accepting someone on your list really means something, MSN France is going to give out REAL business cards (code named BuddyCards) with your Passport address printed on it. This would be free, and you would recieve them by real mail.
More news later on!
Messenger Plus! is designed to enhance MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger by adding a lot of new features directly into its interface. With Messenger Plus!, you can automatically log your instant messages and encrypt them to text files, customize your user interface, create shortcuts to hide or lock Messenger on your station (useful for school or work usage), use IRC commands, customize the appearance of your messages, create text aliases, and play sounds. All the features are accessible in new menus of various Messenger windows, and you can set your options in a brand-new Preferences panel.
Versions 1-4, 6.0-1 are blocked from connecting to .NET Messenger Service because of security issues, but you can download them from here anyway, we host over 50 different builds at /downloads/clients/. Oldversion.com also has a few MSN Messenger versions.
Version 6.x and higher will not run on Windows 95, you must use version 5.
For the people who don't know it yet, Microsoft released a version of the web based messenger for all to test now. Just sign in and a new window will open and you'll see that it looks like the real MSN Messenger.
Right now the following languages are available: English, French, German and Japanese. More languages will follow later this year. MSN Web Messenger only supports sending instant messages. There is no support for webcams, voicechats or games at the moment.
Remember, this service is still in beta stages, the number of simultaneous connections to MSN Web Messenger is limited so it could be possible that you get a sign-in error.
At Microsoft PressPass in the MSN Newsroom, there is a MSN Messenger Fact Sheet
MSN Advertising also provides lots of statistical information for advertisers: primary page, Messenger Facts release, Online Ad Effectiveness Research Toolkit
