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Nice to see its now a public beta. Anyone know if there is a patch released for it also?

Im asuming:


A-Patch for Windows Live Messenger
Version: 1.3.0 RC1 (build 49)
Compatibility: Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0787, 8.0.0792, 8.0.0812, 8.1.0064, 8.1.0066 & 8.1.0068
Downloads: 1,397,615

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Is for this build? Am i right? It doesnt mention anywhere the build number

Thanks for the news

Yeah, does anyone know the build number of this?

Windows Live Messenger phones?

So what's actually different?

this thing keeps crashing on my vista install built 5744... downgrading to 8.0

What is new?

Roaming Identity - Your display name follows you any place you sign into. Now your display picture and personal message will follow you too. If you would prefer they stayed in place you can turn this off (Tools->Options->General -> Sign In -> "Use the same display picture...."

Contact Card - The contact card has gotten a updated look. Instead of a flip it does a slide to toggle between the Spaces and Contact information. Also no more squinting at an icon and trying to figure out what it means the actions on the card are now listed out plain and simple.

Emoticons, Winks, Backgrounds, Display Pictures - The menus have gotten an updated look. They include a recently used list and easy access to featured content so you can get new emoticons, winks, background and display pictures to use. hint: typcially in the featured section the first 4 are free.

SMS Phone Book - You now have a quick way to send SMS to a phone number or add phone numbers for your contacts. Just click the cell phone icon in them main window for a good time.

New Contact Emotion - In 8.0 all our icons got an update but we forgot a very important one. The contact emoticon. Type msn_messenger.gif to send it.

Status Menu includes Sign Out - We noticed people look in the status menu to sign out and so ta-da now you can sign out from the status menu.

Report abuse - Here is something you will hopefully never need to use, but it is there just in case.

Vista Presentation Mode - When you are in Presentation Mode on Vista Messenger will change your status to busy so you can avoid the embarrassing situation of everyone reading your IMs! Don't worry if you want to show Messenger in your presentation you can turn this off (Tools->Options-> Personal-> My Status -> Show me as "Busy"...).

Behind the scenes changes - This release also includes changes to the "guts" of some of the features. The goal is for these changes to improve your experience. Please let us know if that is not the case.

i need a patch for this version

What patch are you talking about?

Does this work with Plus! Live yet?

A-Patch Released.

beta testers got an email telling them to stay with .064, tomorrow the system will test automatic updating to the new build.

they need to fix some of the bugs, like with contacts showing up as offline all the time... or the lagging on contact sign ins..... any improvements in those areas?

They need to fix the server too, I have noticed many times that I get message could not be sent to all recipients like 50x in a row half the time trying to send a message

what messenger really need its transfer resume, many features like this its present in ICQ, it took 8 version to add something so useful like offline msg (now gtalk come with it) lets see how many time it takes to give us file transfer resume.