Leaked: Windows Live Messenger 8.5

[Chris Allen Veteran]

Works fine here also :)

[NienorGT]

Simply AWESOME. Can't wait for the final.

I feel sorry for people that tried to make Vista skins for WLM...

[panicswitched]

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[Bubbabyte]

i hear it's only 64 bit.. has anyone gotten it working correctly on xp x86?

[Chris123NT]

i hear it's only 64 bit.. has anyone gotten it working correctly on xp x86?

Running as a 32 bit process here.

[MrCobra]

Looks nasty and is too bloated. :x

[NightmarE D]

Looks a little better, but still doesn't look as good as the new Yahoo Messenger will look

[PyX]

Haha, there's not one version where they don't change the GUI, right?

I can't wait until they actually make the Mac Messenger valuable... I'm really sick of it.

[rbet]

ummm... patch?

[Slimy]

Haha, there's not one version where they don't change the GUI, right?

I can't wait until they actually make the Mac Messenger valuable... I'm really sick of it.

valuable?

[PyX]

Without Webcam nor Audio, nor handwriting, nor nudges and with insanely slow file transfers (I read that the mac version uses really old file transfer protocols or something...), it's not really valuable to me.

[NoneAvail]

Are they accepting or taking in Beta testers or they going to release it whenever they feel like it? Any release dates? I'm fine with 8.1 on Vista Home Prem

[Slimy]

Are they accepting or taking in Beta testers

No. A beta program hasn't started yet.

[Eli]

Neat that it leaked so early.

Sucks that it won't install on my machine (XP 32Bit SP2.....I'm not the only one it seems).

Oh well when the actual beta does come along, I'll be in it to bug find like crazy.

[Slimy]

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Yeah. Typical Digg, we're like the source of the source of the source of the news.

http://digg.com/software/LEAKED_Windows_Live_Messenger_8_5

[redeemed]

Oh yeah! :woot:

[iron2000]

Installer is 18 MB,much bigger

Woah!

I'll stick to 7.5 then.

Why couldn't they make it modular like Winamp?

[ZonoBurk]

Are they accepting or taking in Beta testers or they going to release it whenever they feel like it? Any release dates? I'm fine with 8.1 on Vista Home Prem

You can sign up here.

[Slimy]

^ The survey for that is very broad. I'm not sure if it will really be for 8.5, I think they'll just invite previous wlm beta people like they always do.

[MGS4-SS]

Looks nice. Waiting for the A-Patch anxiously :D

Oh, and why can't they add Tab Conversations from the start? Now I have to wait for Messenger Live Plus! to do all the work.

[david13lt]

Everything works on Windows XP with SP2 and 32-bit CPU.

[NienorGT]

tested it and it use less RAM than the 8.1 right now (Having both running) 18MB versus 11MB.

[gentoogod123]

did i not notice in previous builds or is that goat a new emoticon as well? type (nah) in a message.

Neinor is yours using that much? mine has

msnmsgr.exe 6,565 K for memory usage.

[levijay]

(nah) has been around for a while

[Elliot B.]

(nah) has been around for a while

I didn't know about it :p