Recommended Posts

I'm jumping on the "I'm in, I got it" pile! :D

Awaiting aceptance.

Haha... sorry to deflate all of you, but that ID in the e-mail invitation does have a quota and receiving an invitation does not in any way guarantee participation.

...though if you submit your survey with "correct" answers by tonight, I'd say you have a pretty good chance of getting in.

I feel really left out here. I had no idea 8.5 went final :laugh:

I find that funny seeing as though you are a news moderator lol :p

BTW, RebelSean's blog about the new WLMessenger v9 BETA sounds amazing! It will have support for animated GIFs!! Finally! Lol.

I can't wait to see what else is new in this version, but even if my status becomes "Active", I don't know whether I should install it. I don't mind finding bugs and posting feedback, but I only have one computer which I use for personal use, so does anyone know how stable this release is going to be?? (It says on the Connect agreement that BETAs can cause loss of data, but I know MS have to say that anyway to cover thier backs). Can anyone answer my questions at all please?

I stopped reading at "Windows Live Messenger 7.0 (Beta)".

I put this page in the "uninformed" pile.

Agreed! I actually posted a comment on that guys blog because of my disgust at his lack of knowledge (harsh, I know, but he shouldn't post long articles if he doesn't know what he's talking about).

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • Yeah, this is absolutely nothing new and EA have done it before. Burnout Paradise, released in 2008, had dynamic advertising billboards that were updated via the internet and targeted people based on location and what EA knew about them from their profile. It was particularly notable for the fact that the Obama presidential campaign ran ads in the game, in an attempt to reach a younger audience who didn't watch broadcast TV any more. It was by no means the first though. Battlefield 2142 from 2006 had the same thing. In fact, Neowin wrote a story about it back then. https://www.neowin.net/news/ba...-in-game-ads-clarification/
    • This is obviously aimed at the education where Apple has lost so much ground to Chromebooks in the last few years, but unless they come up with a comparable management system for education why would anyone switch back?
    • Here's how we arrived at that claim: Note that this is just Play Store downloads. The app is also available on the Galaxy App Store
    • Google Play states the app had more than 50 million downloads. What other metric do you suggest should be used?
    • MSN defined our generation in some ways, kind of like Snapchat and TikTok have done for future generations. I have great memories of the MSN era in the late 90s / early 2000s. In the UK everyone seemed to come home from School and go on MSN for the evening. We didn't really have mobile phones then, so other than going and knocking on your friends door it was a totally new way of interacting with people. I also loved how I could talk to people I’d met playing online games from around the world. Inviting people to NetMeeting and messing about with the shared white board and webcams was pretty fun, even if webcams only ran at a couple of fps over dial-up. All the random things you could do with MsgPlus! were really fun - I suspect that made a few people jump with /shello randomly blasting Mr Hankey out their speakers! Maybe I’m just nostalgic, however I do feel the internet and computers were more fun back then.
  • Recent Achievements

    • One Year In
      Console General earned a badge
      One Year In
    • One Year In
      Twozo Technologies earned a badge
      One Year In
    • One Month Later
      Twozo Technologies earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Twozo Technologies earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Veteran
      branfont went up a rank
      Veteran
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      529
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      205
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      131
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      90
    5. 5
      neufuse
      75
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!