WLM (MSN) 8.0 Released (1 Viewer)

[Rafy]

Windows Live Messenger 8.0, the successor to MSN Messenger has been released. (Build 8.0.0787)

DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK: http://download.microsoft.com/downl...01-b352-cd1a274f957b/EN/Install_Messenger.exe

http://messenger.live.com/

As its no longer a beta, everybody is encouraged to install it. It will only work on Windows XP however.

 

[goan_crazy]

Windows Live Messenger 8.0, the successor to MSN Messenger has been released. (Build 8.0.0787)

It will be progressively released to different markets across the day @
http://get.live.com/messenger/overview/

DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK: http://download.microsoft.com/downl...01-b352-cd1a274f957b/EN/Install_Messenger.exe

FEATURES: http://get.live-int.com/messenger/features

As its no longer a beta, everybody is encouraged to install it. It will only work on Windows XP however.

Thanks James.

 

[jm1234567890]

no stuffplug or msgplus yet

 

[ameh]

Thanks Rafs

 

[jhakka]

Ooohh sxc.

I haven't used the beta, so I'll get a bit of novelty out of this.

 

[ujuphleg]

Wow, 20 seconds after starting up, it crashes...


Ah, Windows never fails to fill me with hope... [/sarcasm]

 

[tennille]

Hmmm...doesn't look as nice as 7.5. It looks older than the previous version.

 

[Kabeio]

Think ill stick with 7.5 atm.

 

[CSI: CRIMES ™]

no stuffplug or msgplus yet

so the plugins dont work?

:mad1: no big dp pics then if i get it

 

[spank_meh]

Think ill stick with 7.5 atm.

:uhhuh: :uhhuh: :uhhuh:
yeah lol same hmm

but if i do d/l it would i still have msn plus???

 

[pritnep]

:uhhuh: :uhhuh: :uhhuh:
yeah lol same hmm

but if i do d/l it would i still have msn plus???

No you wouldn't be able to use msn plus, but they are\have releasing\ed a new version of msn plus that shall work for WLM.

 

[Rafy]

No you wouldn't be able to use msn plus, but they are\have releasing\ed a new version of msn plus that shall work for WLM.

Messenger Plus Live! (Note its not called MSN Plus; thats a different program entirely) should be released within the next few days/weeks.

As an internal plus beta tester i can divulge that the program is comming along nicely. Its a complete recode from scratch; the current beta is feature complete and effectively bug-free. The beta testers just need to check for complete compatibility with the final version of wlm before it is released

HOWEVER, the two msn patches are now avaliable:

Mess Patch: http://www.mess.be/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=download&id=674
A- Patch: http://apatch.ikhost.com/files/index.php?ACT=dl&id=3

 

[Riviet]

I'm currently using the MSN 8.0 Beta, will I be required to update sometime soon?

 

[Rafy]

Messenger Plus! Live release date has been set:

"The new version of Messenger Plus! (4.00), distributed under the name "Messenger Plus! Live", will be officially released this Saturday, June 24th, at 23:40 GMT."

 

[priesty]

mad! i had BETA and upgraded to the full one last night. Messenger Plus! Live has come just in time

thanks for that Rafy

 

[ogmzergrush]

The interface is still appalling. While I did know for sometime from some Microsoft blog that the interface was to stay, just having to watch it again and again makes me wonder whether or not Microsoft employs designers with any sense of style at all.

Needs more tired, generic and blatantly shit gradients eh?

 

[AntiHyper]

"The new version of Messenger Plus! (4.00), distributed under the name "Messenger Plus! Live", will be officially released this Saturday, June 24th, at 23:40 GMT."

Then i shall wait until Saturday the 24th of June to install the "Live Messenger".

unless you have erm u kno links kk thx

 

[Rafy]

What happened to the skins feature for Live Messenger? Did Microsoft decide to take it out of the beta... And can anyone confirm if Yahoo interoperability is actually working?

There has never been a skins feature in any beta afaik. Yahoo interoperability is on its way. We know it is currently implemented on Microsoft's internal build, however there still are a few problems with compatibility they are trying to sort out. The feature should be released as an update sometime soon. It will however be limited to text/display names only (i.e no emoticons, dps etc).

UPDATE:

Within the last few minutes MS released another version of wlm (8.0.0792). This is very unusual coming only 24 hours after the 'final'.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...37-f153-4081-86e9-0cbb2fece05f&DisplayLang=en

UpDATE 2: After much examination of the internal workings of this new version, it seems that it is enabled for MSNP14, as well as having references to yahoo in its text library. Basically this means that it is capable of Yahoo interoperability. All that is needed is for MS to turn on MSNP14 on the server side.

 

[rnitya_25]

this version's good....but its bloody slow. takes twice as long to load up compared to msn 7.0.

 

[AsyLum]

this version's good....but its bloody slow. takes twice as long to load up compared to msn 7.0.

What are you running? Loads quicker than 7 here