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Windows Live Messenger 8.1

Posted Jan 29 2007, 10:10 PM by Chris with 13 comment(s)

Yes the beta has drawn to a close and Windows Live Messenger 8.1 is now available. Nice work by Dwergs in getting the English download link, no doubt he'll be posting the other language builds shortly.

Download Windows Live Messenger 8.1

Updates from 8.0 include:

Yahoo interoperability - now you can chat to your Yahoo Messenger friends from Windows Live Messenger
Your display name, status and personalization roam with you to any computer
Improved sign-in performance
Redesigned contact cards
A bonus of 2 free VOIP calls
And it runs on Windows Vista!

Update:

Nicole, from the MessengerSays blog has posted their official "End of Beta" announcement. It is available for download from the get.live.com Messenger page. In addition to the features that we posted earlier, Nicole notes these new features:

SMS Phone Book
Improved Usability
Vista Presentation Mode
Personal Contact Invitations

Again, you can check out the team's blog post here: MessengerSays.

Filed under: Windows Live, Messenger

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cleitondj wrote re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1

on 01-29-2007 10:54 PM

nice Mr. Chris.... 2 words "DOWNLOAD NOW!"

hehehehehe!

dwergs wrote re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1

on 01-30-2007 1:59 AM

Different language are here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d78f2ff1-79ea-4066-8ba0-ddbed94864fc&DisplayLang=en

Oh and remember, Chris: *unicef

;)

mark_memory wrote re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1

on 01-30-2007 2:18 AM

i have been using beta for months,now finally it's coming to to an end.very nice.

Khristopher wrote re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1

on 01-30-2007 3:16 AM

odd. it only went up from build 168 to build 178 as final. and build 168 came out a long time ago. you think there would have been a lot more builds than that considering how many bugs there were.

Chris wrote re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1

on 01-30-2007 7:10 AM

Dwergs: I'm not a charity kind of guy ;)

xpclient wrote re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1

on 01-30-2007 2:35 PM

To WLM team if you're listening: For WLM 9, please add multiperson (5+) audio and video conferencing and good video quality codec. Look at iChat if you're running out of ideas.

LosHavros wrote re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1

on 01-30-2007 3:11 PM

Does anyone know what Messenger looks like when running in Vista? If it looks the same, they should make the vapour theme semi transparant. Now that would be cool.

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on 01-30-2007 8:24 PM

Chris wrote re: Windows Live Messenger 8.1

on 01-30-2007 11:39 PM

LosHavros: It is almost identical, and yes there is no Aero Glass.

Impersonation Failure wrote PowerShell, Windows Vista Ultimate Extras and WLM 8.1

on 01-31-2007 12:47 AM

The original post was titled Ultimate Extras vs PowerShell as I felt a little cheated seeing Hold'Em

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