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You wait until MS decides to send you the new version.

Or you go and download a leaked version ( plenty around already ). Problem is, that talking about anything leaked here in neowin it's like talking about homosexuality back in 1950. Tab? 100% ^^

Hmm...I got an invite for this but uninstalled it after about 10 minutes of using it. This one looks a bit better I guess, the only thing that would get me to use this build is if there was a patch to get rid of the ugly ad at the bottom and some other stuff, like the Mess.be patch for Messenger 7.5. Feature-wise I wasn't really impressed. OOOO AAHHH You can send offline messages! Well, ICQ could do that about 7 years ago, it's nothing new. I think that's the only new thing you CAN do with it, to my knowledge :\.

Urm http://apatch.ikhost.com/wlm.php anybody?

When will people learn that mess.be patch sucks :/

The gui in the older beta was HIDEOUS and didnt integrate with windows at all. The screenshots show man got the 7.x icons back which is good the other ones were too big and looked like they were drawn up in paint in a rush. So the new gui at least looks more tidy and integrates better with the win2k style desktop.

I am also a beta tester and is stupid to not roll this out to ALL beta testers, so now we have 2 different tiers of testers right? some treated on a higher standing then others.

The gui in the older beta was HIDEOUS and didnt integrate with windows at all. The screenshots show man got the 7.x icons back which is good the other ones were too big and looked like they were drawn up in paint in a rush. So the new gui at least looks more tidy and integrates better with the win2k style desktop.

I am also a beta tester and is stupid to not roll this out to ALL beta testers, so now we have 2 different tiers of testers right? some treated on a higher standing then others.

It's how Vista is done as well. Live with it or complain to Microsoft there are too many beta testers and watch them actually care :)

I think the new version of WLM is a huge improvement from the last. It looks ?professional? instead of ?kindergarten?. I like the square edges around the display pictures because it doesn?t cut bits out so you can?t see them. In the contact list it would be good to have a background feature like the chat window. Also for the contact list it would much better with darker themes, to get rid of the lines that separate each contact. They stick out and look bad. The contact list doesn?t seem to support small picture icons like MSN Messenger 7 did. It only supports the larger pictures and they look un-neat.

I can?t wait until the Messenger Plus and Mess Patch comes out for WLM because they always make it look a lot more aesthetically pleasing.

If anyone is looking for a way to change the background of their contact list, here it is. Create a .gif image named lvback.gif and paste it into your MSN Messenger directory C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger

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You know what, I'm doing a bit of a back flip on my position with WLM refresh. If you keep it with the default colour and put a nice background on it and a-patch it's ass sideways it looks quite nice.

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People need to take positive things from this. I can't believe the number of complaints because Microsoft listened to their beta testers and tried to change the UI (so they got it wrong - they'll improve it for the next refresh).

  • The huge padded "Search contact" area on the contact list has been dramatically reduced, meaning less space is taken up
  • Less system resources required (something people complain about, now it's fixed nobody cares?)
  • Less bloat considerably (people complained here too, nobody congratulating them on reducing it?)

People complain, it gets looked into (and even fixed), but people just look for something else to complain about. :shiftyninja:

People need to take positive things from this. I can't believe the number of complaints because Microsoft listened to their beta testers and tried to change the UI (so they got it wrong - they'll improve it for the next refresh).

  • The huge padded "Search contact" area on the contact list has been dramatically reduced, meaning less space is taken up
  • Less system resources required (something people complain about, now it's fixed nobody cares?)
  • Less bloat considerably (people complained here too, nobody congratulating them on reducing it?)

People complain, it gets looked into (and even fixed), but people just look for something else to complain about.:shiftyninja::

:laugh:: So true.

You know what, I'm doing a bit of a back flip on my position with WLM refresh. If you keep it with the default colour and put a nice background on it and a-patch it's ass sideways it looks quite nice

Indeed, it is going in the right direction after some Apatching and changing of stuff but using polygamy or something is making this build crash unexpectedly which is becoming annoying :/

Indeed, it is going in the right direction after some Apatching and changing of stuff but using polygamy or something is making this build crash unexpectedly which is becoming annoying :/

Doesn't crash here (b27 of apatch)

what A-Patch options did i not select to get rid of the huge buttons on the top of the msg box?

Basically everything on page 3.

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