MSN 9 Beta 4 Refresh Due Today

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In an email sent to MSN Premium and Plus testers yesterday, Microsoft states a new refresh "beta 4" of the program is due today. This is how the MSN 9 beta has panned out so far:

a. Beta 1 – Version: 9.00.0009.2602
b. Beta 2 – Version: 9.00.0009.1802
c. Beta 3 – Version: 9.00.0010.1601
d. Beta 4 – Version: 9.00.0010.1028

All new fixes/features are listed if you read more on this news post. It's rumoured that MSN Messenger 6.2 is to be included with this build, we'll see later on :)

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News source: In-House

General: Made improvements to overall performance and stability

Mail:

· Added support for multiple @msn.com and @hotmail.com accounts

· Found and fixed bugs that could prevent sending &/or receiving email

· Improvements on shutdown so that it happens as expected in all cases

· Added the “Report SPAM” feature

· Added a new “share photos” button in mail view in order to improve visibility of this feature

· Improvements to the import wizard

· Clean-up work on the Junk Mail Filter dialogs

· Several improvements to POP3 support

· Improvements in email toast content

Email Compose:

· Found and fixed bugs that could prevent MSN Photos by Mail from sending &/or receiving

· Made general improvements to Compose user interface

· Better accelerator key support in context menus when composing email

· Improvements in saving photo layout as draft

· Improved progress indicators when saving or sending large email messages

Dashboard:

· General UI fixes and improvements

· Photo slideshow improvements

· Improved MSN Money favorites font colors

· Eliminated duplicate alerts in the Alerts fly out

Calendar:

· Added more stickers for the calendar

· Appointments no longer overlap in the Month view

· Invites no longer get junked when junk filter is set to “strong”

· General improvements to custom note support for calendar sharing invites

Parental Controls

· Added more detailed error messaging when Parental Control Service not available error occurs

· Significantly improved the sign-in customer experience, providing better information when Internet connectivity is not available vs. parts of the service being unavailable frame

· Improved roaming of settings

· Several improvements to the Navigation bar button links Help

· Lots of improvements to Pane Help…too many to mention here

Address Book:

· Ability to expand a group in the To, Cc or Bcc field by clicking on it

· More consistent support of navigation via keyboard in address book

· Enhanced roaming support for address book user settings

· More consistent management of contacts between MSN Explorer and MSN Messenger

· Better management of conflict on Add Contact

· Cleaned up the address book User Interface

· Better communication of errors and how to resolve them

· Allowing use of only birth month and year when entering a birthday

· Support resizing columns in the Address Book on Win 9x

#1 levijay on 30 Oct 2003 - 11:51

(1 reply) #2 Rolando on 30 Oct 2003 - 13:19

MSN Messenger 6.2 ??!!
damn they just finished 6.1

#2.1 Adem on 30 Oct 2003 - 20:31

they finished 6.1 ages ago, but decided to delay it because of the msn chat saga

(1 reply) #3 oDD on 30 Oct 2003 - 13:34

ok surely im not the only one who realised this. but the build number went down? that doesnt make any sense.

c. Beta 3 – Version: 9.00.0010.1601
d. Beta 4 – Version: 9.00.0010.1028

#3.1 divertom15 on 30 Oct 2003 - 17:08

yeah thats definatly a weird way of doing it

#4 Avi on 30 Oct 2003 - 14:01

QUOTE

Added the “Report SPAM” feature

#5 bangbang023 on 30 Oct 2003 - 14:11

I only posted this last night in the forums

(1 reply) #6 BGuillaume on 30 Oct 2003 - 14:34

can non official beta testers update their MSN Software?....I still have 9.00.0010.1601 and it does not find any updates

#6.1 ben_b on 31 Oct 2003 - 17:47

It will update when it is out. By the way it's not really smart to tell people your not an official tester. Microsoft reads this page too

.

Just so you all know I'm an official beta tester and we haven't got to update yet either.

(1 reply) #7 BGuillaume on 30 Oct 2003 - 14:37

[QUOTE]Added the “Report SPAM” feature

Was that already in MSN Mail CLient? If you right click on a message you see "Report Junk Mail to MSN"

#7.1 bangbang023 on 30 Oct 2003 - 14:58

that list, as posted in the forums, is actually a compilation of changes from beta3 AND beta4. the button was added into beta3 I believe.

#8 Ikshaar on 30 Oct 2003 - 15:01

I just hope they changed the main color of mail/calendar panel.. this blue is just awful

(2 replies) #9 DJ Prem on 30 Oct 2003 - 15:57

#9.1 BGuillaume on 30 Oct 2003 - 16:07

why ? did you prefer MSN 8 colors? yellow for the calendar and green for the address book....I dont mind the colors too much

#9.2 Ikshaar on 30 Oct 2003 - 18:34

I prefer one color for all .. but just that blue is too much.

(4 replies) #10 the_moejoe on 30 Oct 2003 - 16:38

wots the deal with msn 9? dont u hav to pay for it anyways like msn8?

#10.1 bangbang023 on 30 Oct 2003 - 16:51

yes you do have to pay. However, beta testers, like myself, get to use it for free during the testing period. Would really suck if theyexpected us to pay for it to test it out for them lol.

#10.2 the_moejoe on 30 Oct 2003 - 17:01

damn i wud of liked to see wot msn 9 is like

#10.3 apa1exakis on 30 Oct 2003 - 17:02

ha, yeah like AOL does.. doesnt matter how many products you test for them or how much feedback you give them you always have to pay.

#10.4 XP-RTM on 30 Oct 2003 - 17:44

haha AOL lololol

#11 XP-RTM on 30 Oct 2003 - 17:45

I am a beta tester of MSN 9

hope they release the update soon

#12 ODiaz77 on 30 Oct 2003 - 18:00

Wow MSN u just finished 6.1....and now MSN Messenger 6.2 ??!!

crazy!!!

#13 BGuillaume on 30 Oct 2003 - 18:32

yeh sorta crazy ...

#14 sk858 on 30 Oct 2003 - 18:47

I'm impressed. Several of the improvements/fixes are things that I had sent in feedback about. Way to go MSN in listening to user feedback.

#15 nowimnothing on 30 Oct 2003 - 21:52

I've been impressed by the MSN client throughout the beta test so far... hadn't used any version before this one, but this one really is kinda neat.

I wouldn't be willing to pay for it - cost/benefit analysis there, but it really is nice, and these new betas are quite solid for me currently.

(2 replies) #16 TeeBall_Mark on 30 Oct 2003 - 23:51

Hi,

Even though the build numbers appear to be going down, they are actually going up.
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a. Beta 1 – Version: 9.00.0009.2602
b. Beta 2 – Version: 9.00.0009.1802
c. Beta 3 – Version: 9.00.0010.1601
d. Beta 4 – Version: 9.00.0010.1028
------------

If one looks more closely at this, you'll notice that the 3rd set of numbers(0009) are actually increased to 0010 in betas 3&4. Its kinda funny how M$ is doing that actually. Just thought I'd make U people aware for those who just don't have sharp enough eyes

TBM

#16.1 simply258 on 31 Oct 2003 - 00:01

QUOTE (#16.0)

look at the last 4 numbers in beta 3 and 4, how they go DOWN not UP

#16.2 ben_b on 31 Oct 2003 - 17:54

It's the same with beta 1 and 2.

(3 replies) #17 mreska on 31 Oct 2003 - 01:13

Ok, now I'm REALLY confused. What EXACTLY is the latest version? 9.00.0010.1601 or 9.00.0010.1028. I did the update this morning and ended up with the same evrsion I had, which was the.1601. Any suggestions or ideas?

#17.1 apa1exakis on 31 Oct 2003 - 01:30

Currently 10.1601 is the most recent released version. MSN beta team was supposed to release 10.028 to us beta testers today. But its getting pretty late. We may not get it until tomorrow.

#17.2 mreska on 31 Oct 2003 - 02:41

Thanks.

#17.3 mreska on 31 Oct 2003 - 02:43

[B]Please let me know when you Do get it.[/B]

#18 DJ^TuRKiYe on 31 Oct 2003 - 01:29

anyone have any dl links for messenger 6.2?

#19 gigsvoo on 31 Oct 2003 - 02:10

What about Windows Messenger?

(2 replies) #20 apa1exakis on 31 Oct 2003 - 02:58

MSN Development Team has just said that due to problems and some other changes that needed to be changed.. they will now release BETA 4 on Monday and NOT today. Just keeping u guys updated.

#20.1 hobsgrg on 31 Oct 2003 - 09:37

bugger, hopefully the new build will work better longhorn, the current one doesn't work too well on it.

#20.2 powerdafuture on 02 Nov 2003 - 20:48

The reason(s) why it doesn't work on LongHorn, is because LongHorn is alpha software and MSN 9 is beta software. Don't expect beta software to work on alpha software, it just won't ever happen.

#21 Crackler on 31 Oct 2003 - 03:09

Thanks for the update

#22 mipra on 31 Oct 2003 - 06:48

this is great

#23 smashguy on 31 Oct 2003 - 09:03

I can't wait for MSN 6.2...lolz

#24 Andyscot on 31 Oct 2003 - 12:40

Well windows messenger in now in alpha build 6.0.4051 i am not sure if this is the acutally build number before someone qoutes me on it i am going the fact it wiuth longhon 4051 ie the same as windows longhorn i was having a look at it and it basically the same as msn messenegr 6 now with a few changes like windows messenger normal has, as for msn messenger 6.2 i can sort of confirm that this is true cause if you go into msn chat you find that there a few new emontions that aint available on messenegr yet so i would assume that it would be availabile in next build which would co inside with msn chat offically closing and next emontiosn appering,altough that was a con the chat rooms are still mostly open fi you pay even in the uk when it said they had gone

(1 reply) #25 master_shoyru2 on 31 Oct 2003 - 14:32

sigh.... hope the NEW msn has way better than 6.1 i installed it and nothing happened just stupid errors

#25.1 apa1exakis on 31 Oct 2003 - 16:15

If you're getting errors from 6.1 there must be something wrong with your machine. I'm not getting any errors and I havent heard about errors from anyone else. Just a thought. 6.1 works great for me.

#26 smashguy on 01 Nov 2003 - 01:47

where can I download of Windows Messenger 6??

#27 Clownboy on 03 Nov 2003 - 12:33

Haha i have MSN 9, and no it has no messenger 6.2, this is realy my first time ever seeing MSN and it seems normal to me, no errors found from me.

#28 Clownboy on 03 Nov 2003 - 12:34

And sorry i dont know the wheraboouts of messenger 6, but get 6.1 at messenger.msn.com

#29 mreska on 03 Nov 2003 - 14:58

[B]Does anyone know if MSN has released the latest version yet? Please let me know.

#30 x790629 on 04 Nov 2003 - 01:45

Version 9.00..0010.2800 is released as of 20:00 EST, hope this helps.

#31 expert01 on 04 Nov 2003 - 02:59

a. Beta 1 – Version: 9.00.0009.2602
b. Beta 2 – Version: 9.00.0009.1802
c. Beta 3 – Version: 9.00.0010.1601
d. Beta 4 – Version: 9.00.0010.1028

It goes (I know there is a change from 9 to 10) 2602, 1802, 1601, 1028... that looks like a countdown to me.

2602-1001=1601
1802 Move 8 to end = 1028

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