Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live Messenger is now available as a public release. But I really don't like a lot of things like:
- The new interface takes up yet more screen estate and doesn't look good in Vista.
- The contactlist margins are bigger then the previous lay-out.
- In the previous version you had the option to see all the users displaypictures in the contactlist.
Thing I do like are:
- Offline messaging although ICQ had this since it's first release.
- Extended contact information like dob, names, spous info, etc. just like in outlook.
I got a msn8 invitation from Dennis some time ago and tried to use messenger plus! with msn8 but this didn't work. An msn8 (live messenger) compatible version should have been release a week ago or something but it is now scheduled for this saturday. I hope that it will have all features from the previous msn 7.5 version and maybe even a couple of more cool extensions. I really like:
- the auto-response
- the (un)block a group
- tabbed messaging
- sound extensions
- the /me switch
- the word replacement filter
- !IP
- custom away messages.
Website :
MessengerPlus (msn7.x)
Website :
MessengerPlusLive (msn8)