Windows Live Messenger 10: Tabbed chatting coming?


Posted by absorbation on Sat 14 Nov 2009 (19:57 GMT) (11198 views)
Perhaps one of the most overdue and speculated features of Windows Live Messenger's history is the prospect of tabbed chats within conversations. Back in March 2006 project manager of Windows Live Messenger at the time, Leah Pearlman told the Messenger community about the idea of tabbed chatting:

Tabbed conversation windows. I don't know when we'll do it, but it's on the list.



Shortly after, popular add-on Messenger Plus! provided an effective third party solution, although StuffPlug did provide a basic tabbed conversation feature since MSN Messenger 6.2. Since then with every new major build of MSN/ Windows Live Messenger the development team have hinted at introducing such a feature. Now LiveSino are reporting the feature to be confirmed (originally translated from Chinese):

I've used M1 version, there is already a tab chat feature.



Of course the source in question is neither public or reliable, but rumor and speculation aside I cannot see a reason to why Windows Live Messenger 2010 would leave this feature out.

Source: arstechnica via LiveSide

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Tags:   Windows Live Messenger 2010  Windows Live Messenger 2011  Tabbed chatting  Wave 4    

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Comment by bacardo
Posted on Sat 14 Nov 2009 (21:40 GMT)
hm.. well eBuddy has had this like for ever... and it has facebook chat adn others. im kinda done with the arrogance of microsoft.. seems many people around me are.


Comment by jerone
Posted on Sat 14 Nov 2009 (20:49 GMT)
With almost every program from Microsoft containing the Ribbon with tabs feature, WLM is long overdue.

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