Hotmail Wave 3 includes Web Messenger for some lucky readers

By Kip Kniskern on October 1, 2008 8:22 PM

14 comments

Well we’re still waiting for the new Hotmail, but we really appreciate the tips and feedback we’ve been getting, and the comments. Special thanks this time to one anonymous reader, who not only has the new Hotmail, but also a working Web Messenger implementation built into it. This feature is expected to be added in over the next months, so it’s good to see it appear so soon (even before we get Hotmail itself, hey!)

He kindly sent along some screenshots, which I put in a Spaces Photo Album:

Windows Live Spaces

From the looks of things, Web Messenger is tightly integrated with Hotmail, or will be. Now we really want the new version!

Posted in News | Tags: Hotmail, Wave 3, Web Messenger

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http://www.liveside.net/members/Chris/default.aspx Chris

We’re getting some great tips in the last few days so keep them coming!

Oh and click the link under the slideshow if you want to view larger images :)
http://www.liveside.net/members/stijnkoppelmans/default.aspx stijnkoppelmans

Didn’t Wave 3 limit the amount of messenger statuses to Available, Busy, Away and Offline?
I don’t want to break the spirit, and I really hope I’m wrong, but could this be fake?
Hope I’m wrong.

Peace,
Stijn
http://www.liveside.net/members/Jeremy-Bost/default.aspx Jeremy Bost

Yes, I too was surprised to see more than Available, Busy, Away, and Offline. I guess it could be fake….
http://www.liveside.net/members/Chris/default.aspx Chris

Remember its all beta, so things might not be consistent until final launch :)
http://www.liveside.net/members/ChaosAngelic/default.aspx ChaosAngelic

Huh. Yeah. And most of us don’t even have Hotmail Wave 3 yet.

*sigh*
http://www.liveside.net/members/orionll/default.aspx orionll

I just made a test account, which happened to get bay 107, and it isn’t on wave 3 as the screenshots suggest…

Although my test account is at http://by107w.bay107.mail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx? and the one in the screenshot appears to be http://by107df-w.bay107.mail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx?
damaster

One of my account located at bay 117 is showing this:

“Windows Live Hotmail wasn’t able to complete this request because your account is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.”

Hope I get something =)
http://www.liveside.net/members/BV2312/default.aspx BV2312

@damaster My account is also located at 117 and i’ve still got the old wave….. all my accounts (131 and 127 are still wave 2)
http://www.liveside.net/members/Chris/default.aspx Chris

@orion-ll: the url for the account about is on the dogfood servers, hence the “df”. Regular accounts moving to Wave 3 won’t be on the df servers, but will still get Wave 3.
http://www.liveside.net/members/BV2312/default.aspx BV2312

Been thinking.. what about Word document viewer and pdf document viewer without the need to download the documents??
http://www.liveside.net/members/orionll/default.aspx orionll

@BV2312: That’d be nice, if it was for Live Mesh and SkyDrive too…
http://www.liveside.net/members/BV2312/default.aspx BV2312

imagine WL Hotmail being able to use Office Live to edit docuement without the need to to download them… now i think we have some integration
http://www.liveside.net/members/kbhasi/default.aspx kbhasi

How I wish I could sneak into the wave 3 beta…
http://www.liveside.net/members/kbhasi/default.aspx kbhasi

P.S.:my account is at 130 if you are wondering…

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