Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta Ends, Final Released

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Microsoft has sent out e-mails regarding the closing of the Window Live Messenger 8.1 Beta that began September 7, 2006. The e-mail states that 3,009 beta testers submitted 1010 bugs and 456 suggestions as well as 6000 posts in the newsgroup. The final build number and final release date are currently unknown. There will be no prizes given out at the end of the beta because of budget limitations for this specific program. Although there are plans for another beta, it is unclear if “it will be a minor release (such as an 8.x ) or a major release (such as a 9.0)” and no date is available either. The plan is to invite current testers to the next managed beta. The beta newsgroup will be available for a couple of more weeks while the public newsgroup microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger will remain the primary location for discussing Windows Live Messenger.

Download: Windows Live Messenger 8.1.0178 (Freeware, 17.2MB)

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Link: Windows Live Messenger Home Page | Forum Discussion (Thanks Dwergs)

(2 replies) #1 dwergs on 29 Jan 2007 - 21:09

Check http://www.mess.be for the correct download link.

#1.1 Mad_Griffith on 29 Jan 2007 - 21:34

GO DWERGS!

#1.2 dwergs on 30 Jan 2007 - 00:07

Try *unicef or *9mil for emoticons

The background story at Mess with Messenger

#2 redeemed on 29 Jan 2007 - 21:12

Ncie. Looking forward to it.

(2 replies) #3 IntelliMoo on 29 Jan 2007 - 21:27

"because of budget limitations for this specific program" ?!?!?!?! Guess ms is "broke" after vista... LMAO

#3.1 chisss on 29 Jan 2007 - 21:38

Quote - (IntelliMoo said @ #3)

Uhm no... MSN is a different division than Windows, budgets are allocated accordingly, I don't think MS would like to spend a lot of money on a messaging software so they are not going to allocate a big budget to Messenger... hence they said "because of budget limitations for this specific program"

#3.2 hapbt on 29 Jan 2007 - 22:43

It's people like you what makes messengers so expensive!

(1 reply) #4 NightmarE D on 29 Jan 2007 - 22:37

I think that screenshot is hilarious

#4.1 Mad_Griffith on 29 Jan 2007 - 22:39

true ehehe

#5 xpgeek on 29 Jan 2007 - 23:30

Thats means no more fixes before 8.1 final?

Because it needs some. 8.1 beta crashes for me every single time I click accept on a file transfer.

(1 reply) #6 T-1000 on 29 Jan 2007 - 23:35

Any news regarding overall performance? Release notes mention improved login performance... How about the rest? Memory usage, etc.
I dont feel like installing this just to find out its pretty much the same thing...

#6.1 MrCobra on 30 Jan 2007 - 00:01

Looks, acts and runs pretty much the same as before. There's nothing new in it but it did grow in size.

#7 Mad_Griffith on 29 Jan 2007 - 23:52

I'm waiting for the ITALIAN version of this...

#8 DemonicHawk on 30 Jan 2007 - 02:34

hahahaha very nice screenshot

#9 iconboy on 30 Jan 2007 - 04:59

call my naive, but where is the animated gif support for the msn personal pic? am i wrong here in thinking that iot was promised a while ago?

(1 reply) #10 JorgeIvan on 30 Jan 2007 - 07:19

When I open this **** it crash when i go online wtf

#10.1 +Ames on 30 Jan 2007 - 07:38

Update your copy of Macromedia Flash to the latest version and that should be fixed

#11 Lee® on 30 Jan 2007 - 23:12

Excellent.

#12 Tom Miken on 01 Feb 2007 - 16:49

What does the "nous" in this installer's file name means?
Is there a difference between the US and none US versions?

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