While the buzz around is the Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta, you must remember that if your considering using it your going to have to go without. Going without I mean, not able to use add-ons such as Stuffplug and Messenger Plus! as neither software are compatible as yet(leaked beta after all!)
Atleast for now Patchou has said compatibility will be expected on the release of Messenger Plus! 4.50, theres no word on when Stuffplug will be. We’ll keep you posted but for now if you love your add-ons, still use Windows Live Messenger 8.5.
Windows Live Messenger 9 has been leaked to net to numerous websites around the globe, sporting new features;
- Messenger Sounds – Configure a signature sound when you come online to your buddies.
- Multiple Sign Ins – For example; Allows you to sign into messenger on the pc as well as your Xbox Live account. Note that it’s only working for registered Beta participants. It should also coincide with the expected Xbox Dashboard Update.
- Contact Spam – You can now block and report a suspected spammer(relating to advertising etc.)
- Animated Display Pictures – Such as an animated gif, Dynamic Display Pictures(DDP’s) which currently can only be made by companies with a Digital License are still around.
Links can be found all over the place and we won’t be linking it to front page. Try Google perhaps ? We suggest you keep using the current version 8.5 till this is publicly released by the Messenger Team. You can also head to mess.be for screenshots.
The final version of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 is now officially available to download. It was leaked ahead of schedule but I thought we’d wait till it was official. The english version can be found here and for other versions heres another 20 languages which Mess have provided. Also the only thing noticeable is the fact there is finally Vista x64 support(Yay!)
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Croatian, Czech , Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian