WINDOWS (MSN) MESSENGER - Version 8.0 (VETA)

X4v13r · Comandante

RE: WINDOWS (MSN) MESSENGER - Version 8.0 (VETA)

LaDyBuG · Comandante

Does everyone have this?

Is it free to install and by invitation only?

What are some benefits of having this?

Disadvantages?

(Sorry even if I read the whole thing, I won't understand it) Thanks Giggy

X please....simply this for me

X4v13r · Comandante

found my original post, here is the link

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=40467&subForumID=159158&action=viewTopic&commentID=4608040

X@vier

X4v13r · Comandante

LGigolo wrote:

X4v13r wrote:
confundida wrote: WHERE X???? THE MSN KING!!! what is ur question. X@vier

I think she wants to know if you have her turtle???

either that or she wants your input on the new Windows Instant Messenger – have you tried it?

yes i have, I've had it since the first beta got leaked to the net and u had to install another program so it would work with the right network, actually i think i posted it here.

anyways here is some screen shots of the "final" ver.

X@vier

LGigolo · Comandante

X4v13r wrote:

confundida wrote: WHERE X???? THE MSN KING!!! what is ur question. X@vier

I think she wants to know if you have her turtle???

either that or she wants your input on the new Windows Instant Messenger – have you tried it?

X4v13r · Comandante

confundida wrote:

WHERE X????

THE MSN KING!!!

what is ur question.

X@vier

confundida · Foro Master

WHERE X????

THE MSN KING!!!

LGigolo · Comandante

McOSIRIS wrote:

Can I have "Leah's" Email???? Posted by Leah

LOL - wanna share some files with her... cam-2-cam chat?

Windows Live™ Messenger beta

See. Hear. Share. Instantly. - Sign Up

What it is

Windows Live™ Messenger will be the next-generation MSN Messenger. It will have everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video—plus new ways to connect and share documents with almost magical ease. As always, it will be free to download Messenger and use most of its features.

What you will be able to do with it

• Send all your familiar winks and emoticons, plus some cool new ones
• Have real-time text, video and voice conversations*
• Easily share documents of all kinds with Sharing Folders

*Both parties must have compatible Web cameras, speakers, and microphones.

System Requirements

• Multimedia PC
• Pentium 233 MHz process (500 MHz recommended)
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Minimum 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)
• Up to 50 MB of hard disk space for installation, 15 MB to run the program.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 SP1 or later must be installed on your computer, though it does not need to be your default.
• Minimum 800 x 600 screen resolution

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Sharing Folders?

Sharing Folders will be a new and simple way for you to share personal photos, documents, and files with your Messenger contacts. You will be able to create a Sharing Folder by simply dragging files onto a contact name in Messenger. This will create an exact copy of the files on both you and your contact's computers, and create a Sharing Folder that can be accessed from Messenger, and on the desktop.

I can already share documents using e-mail. So what's the big deal?

The Sharing Folder will be easier than email for sharing photos and documents. In a Sharing Folder, any time a file in the folder is added, modified, or deleted, those changes will be synchronized with the person you’re sharing with. The Sharing File icon in Messenger will also show you a gleam on a contact so you will know when a Sharing File has been updated. And it will be a simple drag-and-drop to share files, even simpler than the “send file” and “save as” functions you are already familiar with in Messenger.
The Sharing Folders will work pretty much like the PC folder experience you already know, so it will make sense right away. Just like in Windows, you will be able to drag and drop, get different views of files, copy, paste, etc. You will be able to access a Sharing Folder from your desktop, to manage files whether online or offline. And a Sharing Folder requires virtually zero setup or configuration, and efficiently handles file synchronization without any fuss.

McOSIRIS · Comandante

Can I have "Leah's" Email????

Posted by Leah

LGigolo · Comandante

In case you were wondering about the name change, Windows Live Messenger is part of a new family of services from Microsoft(R) that includes Windows Live Mail (now a simpler, safer, faster mail), and Live.com (a new personalized homepage experience), to name just a few.

From what I unerstand it's available out there now, but in order to get access to it, you must be INVITED by someone who already has an active account under the new Version (8.0)

I just got my invitation, downloaded it and am using it since yesterday... Now you can receive offline messages,... other functions apparently may include:

Just a piece of a Microsoft Blog (http://spaces.msn.com/MessengerSays/):

Introducing Windows Live Messenger

Posted by Leah

Having been a former newspaper reporter, my mother used to read my school papers and say, "Always put the most important thing in the first sentence so readers know what they're getting into." I must be a rebel or something, because had I listened, the first sentence of this blog post--hell, of this whole blog-- would be:

Hello Windows Live Messenger.

A few months ago all the members of the MSN Messenger team were shut into a room (lured there by cookies and free frappaccinos) to hear the announcement. "MSN Messenger had a good run. It's time for change. Then next time our users upgrade, it will be to Windows Live Messenger"

A judge would've started banging his gavel, "Order! Order!" because the entire saucer-eyed, slack-jawed team erupted in murmurs and exclamations. I personally clapped my hands and bounced up and down like a two-year-old. "I can't WAIT to blog this!" (yeah, that's right - I have a one-track mind). I didn't know why or how or what it all meant, except that I'd have to get new business cards. Actually - I like my business cards, they're all multicolored with the adorable little flapping butterfl...

"WAIT!" I cried. "The butterfly! What's going to happen to the butterfly!?"

They looked at me the same way my parents did when my childhood dog, Minx, got cancer. So, no more butterfly for Messenger. I'm still excited about the change to Windows Live, but I am gonna miss that little guy. Sniff.

***

Since the internal announcement, I've learned that this name change actually is a lot bigger than a juicy blog post and the canning of a defenseless Lepidoptera (look it up, I did) on Messenger.

MSN will morph into two brands, Windows Live and MSN.

After a few successful years, the creators of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer split the cast and concept in half and created a new and almost equally successful show, Angel. Buffy focused on the human experience, while Angel catered to the sci-fi-action-loving crowd. Think of MSN like Buffy and Windows Live like the Angel spin-off: same people and same missions, but divided in the interest of better focus. MSN now means content, like MSN.com and MSNBC. While Windows Live means services like Live.com, Mail, and of course, Instant Messaging.

MSN Messenger 7.5 is the last version of the IM client that will wear the MSN brand. The next one will wear Windows Live.

In some ways this announcement could be misinterpreted as just a Prince-esque or Puff Daddy name change: I mean, look at it from our perspective: one day, halfway through upgrading MSN Messenger 7.5 to MSN Messenger 8.0 we're told to keep doing what we're doing, just be aware it'll be called Windows Live Messenger instead of MSN Messenger 8.0. When it's ready you, as users, will download Windows Live Messenger just like you would've downloaded MSN Messenger 8.0, had there been one. You will sign in with the same ID and see your buddies, and have the ability to IM anyone whether they're running the old MSN Messenger or the new Windows Live Messenger. You will have all the old features you're used to, plus the awesome new ones that we were building for Windows Live Messenger. (ha, that reads like I was trying to hypnotize you, but I know I don't have to, you WILL do all these things . Ok, I will, anyway .

But like a "John" who changes his name to "Jane", this is more than just a name change. To see major implication, you have to know that the name change is just a first step. As the services pull away from MSN content to live together under a new brand, we're also pulling closer together under one mission: To unite the online experience If that sounds like a line PR fed us, you're probably right - but I don't mind saying it because I believe the product teams fed it to PR first. We're computer users too, and the idea of being able to access a lot more features from a lot more places, to switch from Messenger to Search to Mail and have everything look and work the same way, excites us. Take the new Unified Contacts in Windows Live Messenger as an example. How much do you hate storing a different and disjoint list of contacts all over the place, in Messenger, in your address book, in your phone, and when information changes in one place, it's outdated in all the others. Imagine how great it will be when we're going to be able to keep all of your contacts in one place so that when you're using different services you can access this list in the same straightforward way. Imagine if someone consolidated life this way! Every time I leave my house, I go through a mental list: Phone? Keys? Wallet? Camera? MP3 Player? Gum? I would love for someone to consolidate these items for me. ("Now you can call your friends, drive your car, pay for lunch and photograph it too! listen to The Offspring, freshen your breath all with one unified device!").

***

Final Thoughts (for now) :

- Windows Live Messenger is not out yet - but I can promise that as soon as it is, we'll let you know. Keep using MSN Messenger. We worked hard on it!

- Windows Live Messenger and MSN Messenger will not be two separate clients in the sense that you cannot have them both on your computer at once. It's one or the other, just like MSN Messenger 7.0 and MSN Messenger 7.5

- If you're scared that MSN Messenger is ending, don't be. This is not the end of MSN Messenger, but a Metamorphosis. Come with us on this journey, it will be worth it. (Oh sad, metamorphosis makes me think of butterflies. Sniff)

- I'm embarrassed to even have to talk about this, but for now, it's still an issue: Windows Live Messenger and Windows Messenger are still not the same thing. Just pick the one you like to use, and close the other one up, you're not meant to run them both, one is just a bigger brighter flashier version of the other.

- Come back to the blog! Everything you'll want or need to know about Windows Live Messenger will find it's way up here. That, and I'll take it personally if you don't come back to visit. Next time I'll make snacks. Ok, bye.