Jan
29
Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Is Now Out Of Beta
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Today the Windows Live Messenger team have announced Windows Live Messenger 8.1 is finally out of Beta.
What’s new in this version?
Roaming Identity - Your display name follows you any place you sign into. Now your display picture and personal message will follow you too. (You can turn this off..)
Contact Card - The contact card has gotten a updated look. Instead of a flip it does a slide to toggle between the Spaces and Contact information. Also no more squinting at an icon and trying to figure out what it means the actions on the card are now listed out plain and simple.
Emoticons, Winks, Backgrounds, Display Pictures - The menus have gotten an updated look. They include a recently used list and easy access to featured content so you can get new emoticons, winks, background and display pictures to use. hint: typically in the featured section the first 4 are free.
SMS Phone Book - You now have a quick way to send SMS to a phone number or add phone numbers for your contacts. Just click the cell phone icon in them main window for a good time.
New Contact Emotion - In 8.0 all our icons got an update but we forgot a very important one. The contact emoticon. Type (M) to send it.
Status Menu includes Sign Out - We noticed people look in the status menu to sign out and so ta-da now you can sign out from the status menu.
Report abuse - Here is something you will hopefully never need to use, but it is there just in case in the help menus.
Vista Presentation Mode - When you are in Presentation Mode on Vista Messenger will change your status to busy so you can avoid the embarrassing situation of everyone reading your IMs! Don’t worry if you want to show Messenger in your presentation you can turn this off: Tools-> Options-> Personal-> My Status -> Show me as “Busy”…
Behind the scenes changes - This release also includes changes to the “guts” of some of the features. The goal is for these changes to improve your experience. Please let us know if that is not the case.
You can checkout Windows Live Messenger 8.1 here:
http://get.live.com/messenger/overview
Enjoy.
Regards
Marc Liron
Microsoft MVP
www.marcliron.com
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Jan
9
Windows Live Messenger for Mobile - BETA
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Today the Live Messenger team have launched a Beta for Windows Live Messenger for Mobile.
What’s new in this version?
• Easier-to-manage contact list and conversation inbox
• View and participate in up to 5 active conversations at one time
• No more idle conversation experience: Messenger for mobile can now maintain current conversation history and re-establish an idle conversation in the background
• Emoticons are now displayed as graphics within display names and conversations
• Easily change your display name and status, and even set status before you sign in
• Sort and find contacts more quickly and easily (search, filter by group, and hide offline contacts)
• Call or send e-mail to contacts directly from their contact cards
• Converse with temporary contacts (new people who don’t yet appear on your list of Messenger contacts), and receive the option to add them to your contact list
You can checkout Windows Live Messenger for Mobile at:
http://imagine-windowslive.com/Mobile/Landing/Home/Default.aspx
Enjoy.
Regards
Marc Liron
Microsoft MVP
www.marcliron.com
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Jan
5
MSN Soapbox and Windows Live Messenger Integration
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Today the Live Messenger team have launched a new feature for Windows Live Messenger.
Instead of just IM’ing your contact a link to a video, you can now actually watch a video with friends, using Windows Live Messenger in real-time!
So, now there is no reason not to share a video with your friends whilst logged into Windows Live Messenger.
Regards
Marc Liron
Microsoft MVP
www.marcliron.com
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