Windows Live Messenger Final UI!

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Worked fine for me. Make sure you are doing it un an unpatched Windows Live Messenger. In other words uninstall completely and erase the folder in C:/ProgramFiles as well and reinstall. Then try again.

Nope, Live Messenger now says that it can not connect. :sleep:

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This has rumoured to be fake. More info can be found at Messenger Stuff website: http://www.msgstuff.com/

Maybe the new beta design was an April Fools?

Hum looks like those two new screenshots of the new Windows Live Messenger design could have been an early April Fools joke. If you look at them closely, you can see some obvious flaws in the design, which suggests they were not real. By now we would have expected a leak or some news from the live team but not yet which is very strange but they still maybe real and if they are, it sure is good news to me.

Everyone seems to want that design; well a small skin to slightly change Windows Live Messenger to look like that has been released thanks to the skinner, Monkey. It actually looks really good, and although it is mainly focused on the contact list, it looks like the real thing. If you want to uninstall you will have to uninstall Windows Live Messenger, and then reinstall it again. Enjoy!

>> Download the skin: http://www.msgstuff.com/news/files/Windows...beta%20skin.exe

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Scirwode

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sorry for this newbie question, but did WLM get rid of the hover thing over contacts option?

Yes, they did.

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anonymousjon

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This has rumoured to be fake. More info can be found at Messenger Stuff website: http://www.msgstuff.com/

Maybe the new beta design was an April Fools?

Hum looks like those two new screenshots of the new Windows Live Messenger design could have been an early April Fools joke. If you look at them closely, you can see some obvious flaws in the design, which suggests they were not real. By now we would have expected a leak or some news from the live team but not yet which is very strange but they still maybe real and if they are, it sure is good news to me.

Everyone seems to want that design; well a small skin to slightly change Windows Live Messenger to look like that has been released thanks to the skinner, Monkey. It actually looks really good, and although it is mainly focused on the contact list, it looks like the real thing. If you want to uninstall you will have to uninstall Windows Live Messenger, and then reinstall it again. Enjoy!

>> Download the skin: http://www.msgstuff.com/news/files/Windows...beta%20skin.exe

it was only build .614 that was fake, the screenshots posted on liveside.net are genuine and are the final UI. build 614 was a skin designed to look like the screenshots released on liveside.

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Scirwode

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it was only build .614 that was fake, the screenshots posted on liveside.net are genuine and are the final UI. build 614 was a skin designed to look like the screenshots released on liveside.

That's a relief :yes: . I hope that WLM can go on to be something that it is even bigger than before. I'm eagerly waiting for the next version of WLM :cool: .

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As I said ...It's just a fake... Aprils fool's day...

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Fake Windows Live Messenger adapts previewed interface

dwergs says:

To put an end to the flow of people reporting this in vain, I'm informing that the "leaked" Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0614 version going around on download sites, is in fact a fake build doctored by one of our forum members as an April Fools joke (1 and 4 stand for the first of the fourth month). Here's a good tip: never trust a build without an installer.

Call v8.0.0614 a hoax, but it's also a good attempt at recreating the brand new Windows Live Messenger interface we previewed last week. Thumbs up to Monkey for the job.

Mess.be forum threads about the fake leak:

>> New build or skin

>> WLM 8.0.0614 Leaked!

>> Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0614 LEAKED

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Eli

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Yes we know that the "build" that was released was a fake but the design wasn't. It was based off of the screenshots.

Call v8.0.0614 a hoax, but it's also a good attempt at recreating the brand new Windows Live Messenger interface we previewed last week.

So the design is real, the leak is not.

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