Michael Sun posted some new screenshots of a new look Windows Live Messenger, labeled Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0683.00_Branches, a few sites are reporting this as an April refresh so hopefully we’ll see it very soon.
The post is mostly in Chinese, but the screen shots speak for themselves. Mess with MSN Messenger has summarized some of the changes that can be seen:
Visual innovation:
- New desktop/program icon
- New Sharing Folders icon
- New Video Conversation and Call a contact icons (also in main window)
New features:
- Rhapsody Music Service (”Discover, play and share from Rhapsody’s extensive catalog”)
- Windows Live Call Beta, PC-to-telephone calling provided by MCI Web Call
- Windows Live Sign-in Assistant (”See all your Windows Live ID accounts at sign-in with Internet Explorer”)
- “In a Call” status (automatically enabled with Windows Live Call)
- Option to remove “[contact's name] says:” preceding IMs in conversations
- Windows Live Messenger events (sounds) integrated in Alerts and Sounds options tab
- The return of the (removable) MSN Today popup
- Calendar icon in main window
- “Show shadows and animation” and change Window color options in the General options tab
sheet that looks so nice, i can’t wait!!
This is looking really good… major improvement over the orange one (what were they thinking?) it simply kicks ass
i have the new messenger (Beta 8.0), but coloured nicknames are not required as in messenger plus,,, what shall i do to use coloured nicknames?????????????plz replzy me with an answer
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I hope the new one is better than the old one