Weird box in WLM

[Imran Hussain]

Just saw this in my Windows Live Messenger contacts window. The box beneath the display picture one. It’s the first time I’ve seen this, and I have no idea why. I couldn’t find anything on it on the official Windows Live Messenger Blog and even Liveside . Seems like it’s a placeholder for some image though it shows none. Anybody got any info on this?

<link removed> no need to link to your blog to post a question here

Edited June 14, 2008 by dreamz

[+shift. MVC]

I have those on one or two of my contacts too.

[TakeNothingBack]

Yeah, I have this too, so do many others, according to the people here.

Something else that's interesting too is this here.

[redeemed]

Same here. I have it under the display pics of some contacts. I was chatting to a friend, and he said that his friend also noticed it. :wacko: Strange.

[Nashy]

Couple of mine do too.

[Gabotril]

Me & a friend of mine noticed about it the last night too.

As I can see in the link provided by TakeNothingBack, some people is getting the Microsoft Office logo in the place we have the white box.

Some migration to Office Live Communications Server? :shiftyninja: :rofl:

[simsie]

I got the office logo, it was weird.

I have Office 2007 installed...

[.KICK]

Mine is empty and I have Office 2007 :s

[The2]

Me has it too

[Unimatrix Xero]

i have it as well office 2007 installed for me

[Imran Hussain]

I have office 2007 installed too, but I'm not seeing the Office icon but the box in the first post in this thread. And I can't find any explanation for it.

[Drew]

I don't have it on my PC (maybe because im using a MP! Live Skin) but on my friends PC when I signed into my secondary account it was there :s

[Dc'1]

I was getting that as well... Then it disappeared and my friend got it.

[falconhell]

This appeared on mine:

Its on all my contacts that are currently online....

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

man your display pic is messed up :p

[RDPaul]

This appeared on mine:

Its on all my contacts that are currently online....

Exactly the same here, not sure if it matters, but i've got both Office 2007 and WLM9 Beta, other than that, who knows? :s

[Alex_is_Axel]

i just did a windows update and it seemed to have removed the white box's on all my contacts online.. for the time being :p

[simsie]

Someone on Connect just said the white box is for WLM 8.5 downwards, while the office logo is WLM9.

[Alex_is_Axel]

Update: the white box has now eventually come back

Any info on why the white box is even there.. or even why the office logo is displayed?

[Imran Hussain]

The white box is ugly and so out of place :s why are we seeing it at all ?!

[+shift. MVC]

I'm starting to see it on more and more contacts :s

[?AK]

Alien invasion on the course!!! :p

It happens to me too. I think maybe some new feature will be introduced :unsure:

[j.r.l.]

I wonder...

[daniel_rh]

I have the same empty box in all my contacts that has webcam available

[Deletedforeverhaha]

Same thing happening here...