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A few days ago, I had an e-mail from Microsoft stating I'd been invited to be part of a "select group" getting an exclusive preview of the next Windows Live Messenger. Today, it turns out that select group is the entire worldwide web.
How is any of that useful?Quote:
Here are some of the changes you'll see in 9.0:
* Sign-in and messaging in multiple locations - be logged into Messenger from more than one computer at the same time!
* Signature sounds - choose the sound your friends here when you log in, and customise the sounds you hear in Messenger
* Animated display pictures
Of course it is! ...to young teenagers, the ones who have multiple colour names and 100s custom emoticons that are used every 2 seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajbrun
I thought being able to sign in at multiple locations could be handy, but htid is spot on about the other two features.
It could be quite useful if you've got a 360, as live logs you in on that, and out on your PC. To have both available is quite useful imho.
Same as if you have a HTPC, and laptop or desktop which you need to be logged into.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave87
Or even a virtual machine withn windows!
That could be hilarious and/or very annoying if you can pick any sound to play :pQuote:
Signature sounds - choose the sound your friends here when you log in
I've just checked and yep, you can pick any sound to play. There are a selection of provided simple clips but you can browse to any mp3/wma file and it actually has a nifty little editor that'll help you select up to 4 seconds of a song and add fade in or out if you want to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mblaster
I've just put a snippet from Superman's main title march as mine. :embarrassed:
At last you can finally hide those annoying tabs!
you could do that with 8 alsoQuote:
Originally Posted by Nick F
yep, and with a bit of modifying the ad's would be out of sight too :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hasnath
The first two would be great for me. I'm often signed-in in multiple locations - the lab, the office, home pc/lap etc. Sounds when people log on is great too - pidgin does that now and it can be very handy if you're waiting for someone to get online and don't want to explictly watch your IM client.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajbrun
Got it, no different to the older version, jut eating more memory up.....
Most of that MSNPlus will do already (except multi-locations)