Today Microsoft rolled out a new feature in Windows Live Hotmail, that allows contacts to sign in and use their Web Messenger directly from their Inbox.The added feature allows contacts to sign in automatically when logging into their inbox, via both Firefox and Internet Explorer (does not work in Google Chrome). Users can sort through their contact list by groups and categories, as well as see display pictures and send emoticons.
This feature was originally available to France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK last month and is now available to Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the USA starting today.
Contact sign in
Send an instant message to your contacts
Contact list
Instant Message window
As an example:
3/22/07: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2106864,00.asp
12/4/04: http://news.techwhack.com/553-microsoft-integrated-services
"Even hotmail is now integrated with MSN Messenger. Hotmail shows a drop down with the online MSN Messenger contacts. Moreover, with integration with the MSN Web Messenger you can get in touch with messenger friends from hotmail directly without downloading the software itself."
I recall a bug about five or six years ago when logging into Hotmail automatically logged you out of the 32-bit client.
Am I missing something revolutionary here? It has to be revolutionary, because it seems like everybody is getting all excited, and I'm thinking this is some PR campaign for something that people apparently never discovered even before MSN rebranded to Windows Live...
Not that I have seen yet, hopefully it'll come soon.
One thing I do miss is the ability to message someone who has their status as "Appear Offline". If they message me I can't reply to them using the web messenger, I have to go back to the normal WLM client to message with that person.
People are confused due to the leading text and title.
And which country are you in?
Spare me, ok?
News header: Messenger now available in Hotmail.
News body: Today Microsoft rolled out a new feature in Windows Live Hotmail, that allows contacts to sign in and use their Web Messenger directly from their Inbox.
News end: "This feature was originally available to France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK last month and is now available to Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the USA starting today."
New is the negation of old.
UK
I'm in the UK and it hasn't been working for me for 3 months. There were a lot of bugs with it's implementation on my account and it was even taken out for a time.
Now, this week, it is back on my account and is fully working for me.
GTalk just released video chatting LMFAO
It doesn't work on Linux, as far as I know.
While Live does not include some of the advanced features of Google everything looks really nice and polished. Just got to get deltasync used on mobile phones, remove text ads on sent webmail.
http://videomessages.live.com/
It's been there for awhile...
It's been there for awhile...
Yes... cause microsoft ALWAYS release things on time.
Because Messenger is not Gtalk?
Hey now, it was valid
Gmail was likely designed with it in mind. Hotmail wouldn't have been, and would have to support a far more well established (and likely more comple
Messenger in Hotmail would also likely be used a hell of a lot more, thus needs far more backend support.
I have a friend that died a few years back that I can't stop from showing up in my messenger.
Windows Live Messenger is a failure, as basic functionality has never been available.
Worst features ever, lets not allow people to remove people they don't like. This converts to people not liking the program because they can't remove the people they don't like.
I have a friend that died a few years back that I can't stop from showing up in my messenger.
Windows Live Messenger is a failure, as basic functionality has never been available.
Worst features ever, lets not allow people to remove people they don't like. This converts to people not liking the program because they can't remove the people they don't like.
Go to your contacts in Hotmail
Click on person you are referencing above
Click Edit at the top
5th field down should be Windows Live ID and underneath a checkbox to use in WLM.
Hope that helps you out.
but even if I did, how would unchecking WLM remove them from my messenger block list?
can you try this for yourself before trying to give advice.
I have been trying to get people removed from my messenger for the last 9 years.
This is simply impossible to do in windows messenger.
you can't if they don't remove you first.
I do agree with you and ads on the main mailbox are alright/passable, but putting an ad at the bottom of every mail sent via your browser is too much. That's why I prefer to use Outlook Connector, it doesn't put the annoying ad at the bottom of the mail you send out.
Sometime it's benefit but I prefer windows live messenger program
Gmail/GMX both give IMAP for free.
I love these "oh, they copied these people, they've been doing it for years" statements.
First off, the concept of integrating chat with the email web interface is not patented by Yahoo, nor is it some revolutionary feature that makes an email service stand out. Microsoft is just following a trend, and modernizing their services, in case you've been reading to see what they've started to offer.
Sad that every time someone sees a new feature in an operating system, they immediately associate that anyone else who does remotely the same. By that standard, I could just yell in your face that Ubuntu copied Apple and Microsoft in their GUI interface.
See, there's people who like Microsoft, people who love Microsoft, and then there's people like you, who love to hate Microsoft.
If you want to play that game, then Microsoft had this feature before yahoo. Though it wasn't part of mail. Who gives a rats ass if a compney copies another.
I love these "oh, they copied these people, they've been doing it for years" statements.
First off, the concept of integrating chat with the email web interface is not patented by Yahoo, nor is it some revolutionary feature that makes an email service stand out. Microsoft is just following a trend, and modernizing their services, in case you've been reading to see what they've started to offer.
Sad that every time someone sees a new feature in an operating system, they immediately associate that anyone else who does remotely the same. By that standard, I could just yell in your face that Ubuntu copied Apple and Microsoft in their GUI interface.
See, there's people who like Microsoft, people who love Microsoft, and then there's people like you, who love to hate Microsoft.
Agreed
I really wish they had copies someone who used common sense.
This is totally lame and unneeded news. You'd all be using Gtalk if it CAME built-in to XP/Vista/7, that's the only reason you use it, because it's the same story with everyone else, and no one wants to switch to something new.
Yahoo! Messenger is just barely better than that, and even then, WLM had more features before that.
I haven't really used Gtalk (nobody I know uses it a lot) or ICQ.
Also, I prefer avoiding Google when I can, because that company is notorious for using people's information in ways that can be quite creepy.
What I'd like in Hotmail is support for dynamic themes - something which just about every other Windows Live service has. A new favicon would also be much better like Spaces has, but the Windows Live Hotmail logo.
It is actually ridiculous that this has been overlooked by the Windows Live Team.
Correct me if I'm missing the point here, but doesn't dynamic themes mean more b/w required?
As for your query, you will be logged in as "Available", unless there is an option to pre-set your status to "Appear Offline" on the web messenger.
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