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MSN Messenger 7.5.0311 has been released today, it features “two adorable little bug fixes”, as described by Leah.
The fixes are a phase in the French translations has been updated to reflect some mobile feature changes, and the connection troubleshooter had an issue fixed where it could stop some programs from connecting properly.
Grab it at the usual place.
The popular A-Patch has also been updated in lightning speed.
Following up on the Butterfly recruitment post, 22 more countries have been made available with invitation IDs. Some of the most asked for ones are Denmark, Greece, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway and Singapore.
List is too long to post here, download CountryList2.doc instead.
Microsoft is expanding their pool of beta participants for the Customer Experience Validation Program and the MSN Beta Program.
The MSN beta program offers you the exclusive opportunity to test a new version of a product before it is released to the general public. Membership lets select individuals like you share your ideas and play a key role in the development process of our products and services. You can make a difference with MSN!
To sign up, go to Microsoft Connect and sign in. Use one of the following invitation codes for your country:
The country selection is not that great, but they want more participants in countries with few current testers. Also note that this is only a nomination, completing the survery does not get you in, you will be contacted if you are selected for testing.
Update: More countries have been added, but some users are reporting they can’t choose it when registering. I suspect this will be fixed shortly. Seems it’s fixed now!
Download Post_101905.doc for all the information!
As reported by Mess with MSN Messenger last week, Meebo is a new Web-based multi-IM client supporting AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber (and GTalk) and MSN Messenger. But that’s not the best bit, as they say on their about page:
We’re three folks working to bring IM to Web 2.0. Hopefully this lets you get all of your IMing done in one place and makes it easier too.
If you’re not sure what Web 2.0 is, you can read about it at Wikipedia. Basically, it’s taking the Web to a whole new level, especially in terms of user experience and speed. If you like GMail’s dynamic fast interface, you’ll love Meebo.
Meebo is really raising the bar, you have your contact list window and instant message windows all inside the single browser window and there’s no page refreshing, so it’s very fast. Heck, you can even maximise and minimise them, go check it out at http://www.meebo.com/.
The planned bridge between MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger has one drawback, experts warn: It could act as a conduit for a massive IM worm outbreak.
On Wednesday, Microsoft and Yahoo announced that they would make their instant-messaging services interoperable. By the middle of next year, users of both are expected to be able to exchange instant messages, see if their contacts are online, share emoticons, add friends from either service and make PC-to-PC voice calls.
But the partnership has a flipside, an instant-messaging security expert said. “As Microsoft, Yahoo and others connect their global IM networks, IM worms will spread faster and attack a larger population of end-users,” said Jon Sakoda, chief technology officer at messaging security company IMlogic.
More information at CNet News.
