Messenger Plus! Live is not in a good point at the moment. Patchou is leaving for 2 weeks, so yes, you will have to wait a little longer before you can get it, but that's life. Can I remind you if you want your bug fixed in Windows Live Messenger, don't complain about it, report it, the feature is there (I think by reporting your bug you can help improve the product, remember you are testers!).
There is also a competiton for testers, thanks to .lou on this find. (Only for connect testers)
With the new build comes new test scenarios. We want you to complete these scenarios so bad we will give out a prize to ten of you just for completing them. For each test scenario you complete between now and 10-May 2006 your name will be put in the hat (we have six new scenarios giving you six chances to win). Then on 17-May 2006 we will draw ten lucky names to receive one of the cool prizes out of our prize bin. Some examples of the prizes are:
Limited Edition "Perfect Dark Zero" XBOX 360 video game
Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000
MSN Magic Eight Ball Toy
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
And more!
Personally, I don't know how the beta is going to turn out, there still maybe serious bugs in there and remember your friends and family are going to be totally confused by such a change from MSN Messenger to Windows Live Messenger. I can't say too much, not much has changed from the 8.0.0683.00_Branches build, but looks as if things are finally coming together.
Download Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0689 (from our mirror) Download Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0689 (English) (from Microsoft) View MessengerSays blog post Report a bug to the Windows Live Messenger team Give other feedback to the Windows Live Messenger team View release notes for Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0689UPDATE:
However, do no panic! Nothing has been lost except for the entry points, with which there is only a temporary problem. The team are currently working to figure out the problem and fix these issues.
We'll tell you right here as soon as the problems are fixed.
For a quick solution try signing out of messenger and then back in again. This may or may not work.
If this problem is still not fixed for you (after signing out and back in again) then try exiting messenger (by completely closing msnmsgr.exe) and opening it again and signing in. If the problem is still not fixed for you wait for at least 30 minutes and try again.
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i still prefer single file sending over sharing folders...
can anyone confirm that Messenger is Ontop of the start menu.
(as in you can't put the mouse pointer down there and have it pop up like it should do, and you have to press the windows key or CTRL+ESCP to get it to pop up.)
(can someone also confirm that windows appears to always set itself to busy, no matter what your doing.)
Have you done this crazy Registry-thing?
Without that, you will never see something!
the always busy bug is still there (occurs when set to busy automatically is enabled, (for when yoo are in a full screen ap)
all the windows appear to have always on top enabled sort of... (you can't move the mouse to the bottom and have the start menu come up, (which means you never know when you have new messages).
Colour is still not dark enough.
and i can't see the addin tab!
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