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    Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    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.
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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    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
    How is any of that useful?

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Quote Originally Posted by ajbrun View Post
    How is any of that useful?
    Of course it is! ...to young teenagers, the ones who have multiple colour names and 100s custom emoticons that are used every 2 seconds.

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    I thought being able to sign in at multiple locations could be handy, but htid is spot on about the other two features.

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    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.

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Quote Originally Posted by dave87 View Post
    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.
    Or even a virtual machine withn windows!
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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Signature sounds - choose the sound your friends here when you log in
    That could be hilarious and/or very annoying if you can pick any sound to play

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Quote Originally Posted by Mblaster View Post
    That could be hilarious and/or very annoying if you can pick any sound to play
    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.

    I've just put a snippet from Superman's main title march as mine.

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    At last you can finally hide those annoying tabs!

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Quote Originally Posted by Nick F View Post
    At last you can finally hide those annoying tabs!
    you could do that with 8 also

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Quote Originally Posted by Hasnath View Post
    you could do that with 8 also
    yep, and with a bit of modifying the ad's would be out of sight too

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Quote Originally Posted by ajbrun View Post
    How is any of that useful?
    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.
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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Got it, no different to the older version, jut eating more memory up.....

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    Re: Windows Live Messenger's not so private beta

    Most of that MSNPlus will do already (except multi-locations)

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