Problem with WLM invite. Please help.

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Emile

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I recieved an invite from a member at our forum here.

Hello!

Thank you for your help in testing the new Windows LiveTM Messenger Beta! You have just received an invitation!

Follow the steps below to send invites:

Go to http://ideas.live.com/, click Beta users sign in here, and then sign in.

Click Windows Live Messenger Beta, and then click the "Activate & Download" link on the right side of the page.

Enjoy!

The Windows Live Messenger team

After I login and click 'Windows Live Messenger Beta', I don't heve a link that says 'Activate & Download'. Anyone else have this problem? Any help on this? :(

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Hikaru

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From what I can deduce, what that member sent to you was a forward of the invitation email he got from Microsoft and not invited you exactly. Because my invitation email sounded like this:

Hello!

We'd like you to be among the first to try the beta version of Windows LiveTM Messenger.

If you use MSN? Messenger now, we think you're really going to enjoy Windows Live Messenger...

and there was only a Download button (which only worked on IE =.=)
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s_spiff

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Okay, I did sign in too. But I don't have invite to the WLM, I only got WOCL, which I tried long back, and also dumped it! Anyways, you should check out the other tread which deals with WLM invites, may get sopme solid support there.

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Emile

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I think my one was just a fw'd :( i did do the happy happy joy joy dance hehe

I'm beginning to think that that is what happened...a forwarded invite. I've been had. An admin should probably rename this thread to "Neowinians that got duped"

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darkhooda

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I got an invite, then couldn't sign in. After a while, I thought it was gmail's fault for not displaying a link to activate (go to a page where you have to press agree, blah blah blah). I tried viewing the source, but it's pretty difficult to do that in gmail, I can tell you that. I sent it to a yahoo account and then checked the source there. I think it might've been because I use only Firefox (on new computer) and Opera (on older computer)... Oh well, it's working now after i did "I Agree"!

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primexx

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I got an invite, then couldn't sign in. After a while, I thought it was gmail's fault for not displaying a link to activate (go to a page where you have to press agree, blah blah blah). I tried viewing the source, but it's pretty difficult to do that in gmail, I can tell you that. I sent it to a yahoo account and then checked the source there. I think it might've been because I use only Firefox (on new computer) and Opera (on older computer)... Oh well, it's working now after i did "I Agree"!

to view source in Gmail you have to switch to "Plain HTML View" first :p Otherwise you'd just see a Javascript frame.

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Leddy

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A real second-gen invite doesn't look like that.

This is the text from a REAL second-gen invite, with brackets to indicate contents:

(logo)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please keep it short--we can't handle more than a few lines.

(message from inviter)

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Hello!

We'd like you to be among the first to try the beta version of Windows LiveTM Messenger.

If you use MSN? Messenger now, we think you're really going to enjoy Windows Live Messenger. It's as fun and reliable as the Messenger you already know, and you won't lose your contact list or any other personal information when you try this new version. Check it out to experience new ways to connect to your friends via text, voice, video, and more.

Download now (button)

And in case you were wondering about the name change, Windows Live Messenger is part of a new family of services from Microsoft? that includes Windows Live Mail (now a simpler, safer, faster mail), and Live.com (a new personalized homepage experience), to name just a few.

Thanks,

The Windows Live Messenger team

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Lucida

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Problems with link in E-mail READ!

Right Click on the Join Now o Download Now and then click View Source

A notepad window should come up, what you have to do is search through the text to find ACCEPT and then find the link which is needed. Copy and paste into interent browser and proceed from therre.

I HOPE THIS HELPS

Lucida

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