Live Messenger Refresh Now Available

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hotdog666al

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So using Miranda you know what the new version is like then do you?

If you don't use, want to use, want to be invited, or want to care about MSN / WLM, then why bother posting. Very trollish thing to do.

Yeah i'm judging this new build by all the negative feedback and the screenshots.

I'm posting to express my opinion which is pretty much those whole point of a forum.

God damn, can't I even mention another application??

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eilegz

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The only good thing of this build in my opinion is "Improved performance".

The other "improvements" from the changelist, don't seem "improved" at all for me :(

agree i liked the hover effect on contctlist now its gone it feels like a uglier version of msn 7.5

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Blackice

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guys, please remember that this is a beta. The UI needs to be tweaked still, but from this, I think it will be good. They'll fix custom colours and things like that, but first they need to get it working right.

Why do you think this isn't a beta release to people who were invited by friends? Because they're the public, and they won't understand that this is provisional. I think the WLM team were pressured to releasing a new build, and that they'd been working on the new UI so long, they couldn't give an old build (since other changes wouldn't be there), so they had to give what they had. A beta UI, but only released to MS invited testers, because they're more likely to understand that.

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Dragular

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With a few fixes the new UI is beautifull!

Edit: I think the color that it comes by "default" is the color you used in the previous build. Yes most of the old colors are ugly because light ones suit the build better but the UI looks very nice and very clean in a light shade of gray.

The old UI was childish and looked like it was done in MS Paint rather then the almost-vista integrated clean UI w have in the latest build. And remember this is just a beta. Try to see what their aiming for, It's all good!

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#Michael

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Thought to pounder. Look at the screenshots people are posting of WLM in vista and then of it in XP and see what they look like. Doesn't it look a 1000x better in the vista ctp?

So maybe just maybe they really are designing this version and beyond now for vista rather than for XP? Of course it will work on XP/2000 but just won't look as nice.

Just a thought. :whistle:

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ClintEastman

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Thought to pounder. Look at the screenshots people are posting of WLM in vista and then of it in XP and see what they look like. Doesn't it look a 1000x better in the vista ctp?

So maybe just maybe they really are designing this version and beyond now for vista rather than for XP? Of course it will work on XP/2000 but just look as nice.

Just a thought. :whistle:

I think your right, it will look ALOT better in Vista, BUT that screenshot is not from Vista, it's a mockup i made to point out that the Areo version of messenger will look better. (I think i just confused myself!!). That screenshot is really of Media Player 11 after 10 mins in Photoshop! :D

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Eli

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I found a bug too.

Please vote:

The image is in the comments.

https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/View...eedbackID=40974

Note: This has happened more then once to me too. I just posted it when it happened once.

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#Michael

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I think your right, it will look ALOT better in Vista, BUT that screenshot is not from Vista, it's a mockup i made to point out that the Areo version of messenger will look better. (I think i just confused myself!!). That screenshot is really of Media Player 11 after 10 mins in Photoshop! :D

damn and I thought that was vista....haven't had the chance yet to install it. Did hear it works on the december ctp now.

Hope will at some point look like that. :D

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