84Mark Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 As reported at mess.be We have informed you earlier that MSN Messenger 7.0 is in development as we speak and we're expecting information about new features soon. But we think that one of our messers, Roy, might have captured a first and exclusive screenshot of Microsoft's next version IM clientThe screenshot was taken from a webcast presentation at the Financial Analyst Meeting 2004, in which MSN Messenger 7.0 is described as "a big upgrade". While MSN's Corporate Vice President, Yusuf Mehdi, is demonstrating what he calls "orchestrated advertising" (a combination of rich media and personalization), a screenshot is shown of a Halo banner ad in what looks like an unusual version of MSN Messenger. We've added our comments and speculations on the curious bits in the layout of, presumably, MSN Messenger 7.0. Our premature conclusions: - The application's title now pictures the MSN logo with the butterfly, followed by "Messenger". - Extra icons and links underneath your display name. Possibly for Hotmail, the MSN portal and other MSN services. - Not one but two icons are positioned in front of a contact's display name (comparable to when you hover your mouse over a contact with Messenger Plus! 3, but then permanent). Not all of them look like the MSN Buddy icon, so this means that either there are new status icons (and/or new statuses) or otherwise a small thumbnail of one's display picture is shown in the contact list. Our third guess is a personal, custom (emot)icon that can be set instead of the default "little green men". - The image in front of your own display name looks odd too. This could be a thumbnail of your current display picture. - At the location of the current "I want to..." menu (which in the screenshot is either turned off or completely removed) you'll find a text entry field. We reckon this is an integrated MSN Search box, because with 120 million users of MSN Messenger already that's a brilliant step into getting people to use Microsoft's search engine and nothing else. Please also take a look at the larger screenshot. Mehdi claims MSN Messenger 7.0 will be released somewhere along 2005. Of course and similar to previous releases, we'll keep you fully informed of all the details we discover until then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted August 2, 2004 MVC Share Posted August 2, 2004 well your pictures are hosed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3njo Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 why is it blurred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumi Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 There's no pics buddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypoxiaicon Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Can we have working images? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfalcon Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 why is it blurred? The screenshot was taken from a webcast presentation at the Financial Analyst Meeting 2004, in which msn messenger 7MSN Messenger 7.0 is described as "a big upgrade". Those are the pictures.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dan C Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Any source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dL Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Where are the pics? dL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84Mark Posted August 2, 2004 Author Share Posted August 2, 2004 The pics are hosted at mess.be so maybe they don't allow hotlinking.... pop over there and check em out for yourself. They work okay for me in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+primortal Subscriber² Posted August 2, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted August 2, 2004 copy the liks and paste them in a new window (the site might not allow hot-linking) http://www.mess.be/_pictures/msnmessenger7a.jpg http://www.mess.be/_pictures/msnmessenger7b.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dan C Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Nm, the source is from Mess.be guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banjo Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Right click the broken image and copy image location. Then paste it into your browser window. They're hotlink protected. It's really hard to tell anything from the screenshots... so blurry and small :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmc777 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 It's about time that they removed ads for people who are subscribed to MSN Plus and Premium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theyarecomingforyou Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Wow... the most useless screenshot in the world. You can't tell anything useful from it because it is absurdly low detail. :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Michael Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 I thought this had been solved last week. There was a thread about a new msn messenger build over in the beta forum. As part of the MSN9/MSN Messenger beta team, as far as I know there is no messenger build passed 6.2. You'd think if they were planning a new version, we'd be the first to hear about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3thal Veteran Posted August 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 2, 2004 I'm still waiting for AIM to update from 5.5.3595. It has been almost half a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmah Veteran Posted August 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 2, 2004 Goddamn the mess.be site's so retarded. Hmmm MSN 7.0... probably still be full of ads. Can't really see them "improving" it in any way. They'll just remix it a bit. I say they add some nice glass-style emoticons and allow us to import animated GIFs as smileys! :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A1Capone Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 if you use Firefox, you can't see them, use IE and they work fine!!! :D :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 And in similar news, the first screenshot of Trillian 3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY1 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 And in similar news, the first screenshot of Trillian 3:http://www.tomservo.cc/temp/trillian3.gif HAAHA! LOL can't wait :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainashi Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 can't tell enough right now to be impressed about anything. :sleep: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 I'm still waiting for AIM to update from 5.5.3595. It has been almost half a year. latest version is 5.5.3599. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted August 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 2, 2004 And in similar news, the first screenshot of Trillian 3:http://www.tomservo.cc/temp/trillian3.gif :woot: :woot: Cant wait!1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted August 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 2, 2004 And in similar news, the first screenshot of Trillian 3:http://www.tomservo.cc/temp/trillian3.gif lmao nice one :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriz Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Its from Mess, so we know its reliable. Even from the early stages it looks pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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