November 8, 200817 yr Anyone downloaded/tested this yet? Well if not you can Google it and download it from them. I think this has potential, and for a beta it's done fairly well so far. A few notable features I could make out/find from a quick glance: - Ability to take a DP (Display Picture) - Still shot or 5 Second Animation straight from a webcam [Was very buggy for me and kept crashing the program] - You can now have a personal sound (5secs max) play for yourself when you sign into IM (Instant Messenger) which is supposedly heard by people in your contact list. [A very cool interface to select a section of music from a MP3 track, However unsure if it is yet set up properly to play on other peoples machines] - I'm guessing animated avatars in general will now be available to use as a DP - Layout Change - Favorites List [i like this, keeps all my favorite people I talk with on top of the list - while displaying their DP - See screenshot for reference] - The statuses have been narrowed down to around 4 (Online / Busy / Away / Offline) - A border around display pictures change color depending on a persons status - Some kind of Wink/Image/Mood Feature, basically I guess it will adapt your DP on recent emoticons used to display your mood. [Another feature which kept crashing the program for me while trying to set it up] Aside from that you got new GUI for everything, and a few other on board features. [hide=Click to see screenshot of myself using it - bad content free (blurred out)][/hide] Please share your thoughts on this, and if you use it, discuss what you think about the beta version :)
November 8, 200817 yr I dislike live messenger, I've been using pidgin for a while now and personally I thnk it's a lot less bloated and a lot better than live. "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
November 8, 200817 yr Author the DP's on the left side is a dumb idea for UI I agree with you on that, They have gone and changed things around, which simply "didn't need to be changed" And yeah, in terms of a IM this is one of the bloated ones (Less than that stupid Mercury Messenger though, IMO) However I still think it has some real potential with the new webcam features, makes it a lot easier to snap a DP of yourself etc. Is this what you people want to see as the new IM from MSN/Windows Live? Or for a better question, what would you like to see happen with it?
November 8, 200817 yr I dislike live messenger, I've been using pidgin for a while now and personally I thnk it's a lot less bloated and a lot better than live. If you're not lazy, you can easily take out the bloat :: Guess the Movie Contest Champion: pfilc23 ::
November 8, 200817 yr *Sigh* Need I also mention that pidgin is a multi-os open source program that supports many different IM protocols including MSNM? It's not laziness, it's just one of the reasons why I don't use live messenger. "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
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