Windows Live Messenger Build 0566

[tuinhek]

Just installed it... and it's 1000 times better than before!

[+dave164 Subscriber¹]

Just installed it this morning, the borders on the chat window, i hate it, looks horrible, everything else looks nice such as the chat window and i dont think the mucked up chat window is happening anymore...

However after using Trillian its hard to be pleased with this :p

Much more minimal though

dave164

Edited March 1, 2006 by dave164

[Azcobain]

The "Now Playing" bug is very annoying.

[spikey_richie]

why is it when i click on a name i brings up their contact info... i want it to bring up the IM. Now i have to right click 1st

Double-click the contact :yes:

[Nexus-]

and it doesn't seem to install the latest beta. installs, restarts to same version of live and prompts me again.

Actually it has a bug it wont install 566 unless you remove 562 first but if you do that you cant download 566 over the update system. You neowin mods wont allow links so we cant help any of you lol.

Finally got it working. Uninstalled 562. Deleted MSN Messenger folder. Installed 365 again. Went to Local Settings\Temp and found the 13.5MB file

Installed it. And now 566 :D

IMO ... it looks better now. Hope the icons will be replaced. The look is now simplified but still stylish

or that... too much effort tho i say. I grabbed a download link and deleted my copy of 562 (yeah im on the beta) and installed 566. Thanks to the guy who posted it before the link got taken down :rolleyes:

[Smigit]

Actually it has a bug it wont install 566 unless you remove 562 first but if you do that you cant download 566 over the update system. You neowin mods wont allow links so we cant help any of you lol.

noone should need download links since anyone with 562 should have been a managed beta tester with access to connect.microsoft.com and thus the download.

There seems to be a work around where you download it and then look about in your cache somewhere. Personally I logged onto msn connect and got it there. 3rd option would be to get the email invite and redownload 365 and have it auto update from there.

edit: or do what you did and get a link... hehe

[Brodel]

how do you get the buddy icons to show in the contacts list? I can't seem to find the option.

[FiB3R]

how do you get the buddy icons to show in the contacts list? I can't seem to find the option.

Click the Manage your contacts button (the green up and down arrows) and choose show details :)

[MiamiGuy]

how do you get the buddy icons to show in the contacts list? I can't seem to find the option.

Next to the search bar on top of the buddy list there are two icons, one with a + sign and the other is a lil up and down arrow, click on that and hit show contact details.

EDIT: Oops somebody beat me to it.

[housegroover]

how does it look in vista?

[MiamiGuy]

A-Patch for build .0566 is out! Woohoo!

Get it here: http://a-patch.tk/

[Rien]

It doesn't show special icons for blocked contacts, this is really crap

[MiamiGuy]

It doesn't show special icons for blocked contacts, this is really crap

It does, just not when you log in. I have the same problem, but it does have the block icon. Right click on the person that you know is blocked, hit unblock, then block again, and it shows the icon. Unfortunately though every time you log in it shows the blocked contact unblocked again. Annoying bug.

Wow I've never use the word "block" so much in a sentence. haha.

[Brodel]

Next to the search bar on top of the buddy list there are two icons, one with a + sign and the other is a lil up and down arrow, click on that and hit show contact details.

EDIT: Oops somebody beat me to it.

ah, thanks for the replies. Do you know how you do it if those icons aren't there? I just removed them with A-Patch before seeing the reply here :pinch:

[MiamiGuy]

ah, thanks for the replies. Do you know how you do it if those icons aren't there? I just removed them with A-Patch before seeing the reply here :pinch:

That happened to me once before and I looked everywhere and there was no way to do it, so you're gonna have to add that back to WLM with a-patch.

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

why, MS, why?! You had a good UI and you screwed it up :cry:

[Shiver202]

i got my msn 8,0566 today .. a bit late maybe but thats ms :rofl:

but i like it it better then the last beta .. the only thing i don't like is the color scheme's

there too light

[Brodel]

there seems to be a bug with the name changing. I changed mine in the settings but it won't stay set and randomly changes back to old names, anyone else found this?

[Bluetonic]

The "Now Playing" bug is very annoying.

Agree :yes:

[xorian]

Bah, the new GUI is HORRIBLE and it seems it's gotten slower.

It's a shame for Microsoft, they really had something going there with the greenish GUI.

[herime]

The UI in build 566 its very bad... I prefer the msn messenger UI or the old MSN Wave 11 concept. What happend with the design team?? i hope that the UI will change a lot in future build...

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

I've setup a poll about the nw WLM UI: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=438022&st=0

Vote! :D

[Argote]

I liked the feature in 365 that separated the Online contacts within a group on top (with all the ocntacts in buy/away/brb/etc... on the bottom) they should have an option to enable taht on future releases.

I try to send feedback but it gives me an error page

[invaderjohn]

u can find the new build at mess.be

[RevoDS]

Bah, the new GUI is HORRIBLE and it seems it's gotten slower.

It's a shame for Microsoft, they really had something going there with the greenish GUI.

:blink: On my machine, it's A LOT faster and I better like the actual GUI than 562's or 365's one...

After all, it's a matter of taste