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 Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Windows Live Messenger 8.1

[LiveSide - News blog : Windows Live Messenger 8.1]

Updates from 8.0 include:

  • Yahoo interoperability - now you can chat to your Yahoo Messenger friends from Windows Live Messenger 
  • Your display name, status and personalization roam with you to any computer
  • Improved sign-in performance
  • Redesigned contact cards
  • A bonus of 2 free VOIP calls
  • And it runs on Windows Vista!

Wohoo!!! bullet #2 is the best. Roaming personal status + user tile.

I've been wanting this FOREVER. It was one of the few features left on my wish list for messenger. The only thing left on the list is away messages.

Another feature I've been waiting for:

Personal Invitation - When you add a new contact you can add a message so they know who you are. Especially helpful if your email address is something like ILoveMessenger(at)emaildomain.com - since there are so many of us out there.

This kicks ass... messenger rocks now.

 

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:22:12 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Wait until you see the next version of Yahoo! Messenger. It's going to kick some serious ass. It's going to be even cooler than the Vista version, which was pretty darn cool.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php

Dave Cortright
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:36:28 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I really only have one major feature request for the WL Messenger team, give me a global hotkey to bring it up and default the cursor to the "search contacts/buddies" text box. This is possible with Office Communicator and Yahoo Messenger (Win+Q and Win+Y repsectively). It's rediculous that to start typing to a buddy on WL I have to use a mouse.
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