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
Project Messy aims to enhance your Instant Messaging experience by adding colorful and custom content such as Winks but more interactive and fun. Here you can find screenshots of what you look to expect on using it.
Are you interested in trying it out? Head over to Project Messy and join there beta testers to test this promising Windows Live Messenger add-on. Be sure to read the FAQ’s as Windows Vista and 64bit aren’t currently supported but expected to be compatible soon.
Any feedback is appreciated by the team and can be posted here at the forums.
Thanks to carvell1 for posting on the forum;
Ever wanted to use Messenger while using mIRC? Well you can with MSN Messenger add-on for mIRC. It comes with some of the usual features you’d expect as well as;
- Notification of users opening chat window(s) with you
- Automatically connect to your account when mIRC starts
- Display Away when your Away on mIRC
- Conversation Logging
And much much more. So if you want to try it out, head over to the MSN Messenger add-on for mIRC site and of course make sure you have mIRC installed to try this baby out!
If you haven’t already noticed, The Messenger Team posted about the new updates that users of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta 1 will be prompted to update to Beta 2. While the updates will be optional for Windows XP/XP 64 bit/Server 2003, Windows Vista 32/64 bit will be forced to update to Beta 2, which ironically cannot be installed from the current beta installer that is available.
So for those that want to use the new beta and are using Windows Vista 32/64bit, install the Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta 1 and logging in will prompt you to update and accept.
