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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:23:36
I am very excited! Now you can create your OWN IM button to put on your blog or in your email signature. Just go to www.messengerbuttons.com and create your own button, it has a lot of cool ways to personalize your button. This makes it even easier for your friends to find you on IM.
Once you have created your button, it is also easy to add it to your Windows Live Space, Outlook, Hotmail or Windows Live Mail! Here is a button I created. Enjoy connecting with all of your friends and family! ---------- Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:10:48
After months of work, and two beta releases the Windows Live Messenger team is proud to release Windows Live Messenger 8.5! We’ve listened to the feedback from our beta users and made this one of the best versions of Messenger ever! If you were a beta user not much has changed for you. We worked hard to improve the overall quality of Messenger though, and we owe a big ‘Thanks!!’ to all of the beta testers that sent us feedback. If you haven’t been a beta tester you can read Nicole’s post about the new features in 8.5. Windows Live Messenger isn’t the only program getting released today. In fact a lot of Windows Live products are celebrating a new launch today. Be sure and check out the blogs of Mail, Photo Gallery, and Writer for all of the new features, then go Get Windows Live! ---- If you have a comment on this post please comment! For other questions/concerns/discussion topics/rants/raves/etc - please head over to the Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup. Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:43:49
Hey people: It is time for another great release of Messenger as well as all of the Windows Live suite of applications and services. This is our biggest and best release to date and I want to make sure you have the latest versions of all of our great applications including Messenger, Mail, Writer and Photo Gallery. Secondly, I want to make sure that you have joined us in the i’m initiative, which gives real dollars to important charities like UNICEF, The Sierra Club, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and others. In November and December Microsoft will double the donations when you IM for a cause. Also, if you haven’t already, go to Facebook and join the i’m MAKING A DIFFERENCE group to help us meet our Challenge Grant of donating $50,000 to celebrate the launch of new Windows Live suite. You can even vote on who gets the money! You must join the group by Friday, November 11th though. The creative people that thought up the i’m Making a Difference campaign are coming up with new ways for people to get involved with this great initiative. Now comes the part where students get to be involved and tell their story of how they support local and worldwide social causes. Windows Live Messenger has teamed up with mtvU to bring you a new reality series based on the lives of student activists. You can go to IM.LIVE.COM to watch the show. In each episode they will be profiling a different student leader, and you can see how they are using the power of the internet and Messenger (of course!) to change the world. note: currently the donation only applies to Windows Live Messenger users in the United States. If you are in the US and you are IMing with a contact in another country your IM activity will be counted towards the donation. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:10:03
Steven told everyone about the “i’m Making a Difference” group on Facebook this past Wednesday. I’m pleased to announce the winning cause organization is the Humane Society of the United States! Over 50,000 people joined the challenge with the HSUS receiving the most votes. It is our privilege to present a $50,000 donation in honor of Windows Live on behalf of the Facebook group and its members! The Humane Society has been working since 1954 to celebrate animals and confront cruelty in all its forms. As the nation’s largest and most powerful animal protection organization, they work tirelessly to advocate for a population unable to advocate for itself. We hope this contribution helps them continue their great work. To everyone that joined the group: Thank you! Thank you for joining, thank you for telling your friends, and thank you all for speaking out passionately on the wall and the message boards. Together, we are truly making a difference! ---- If you have a comment on this post please comment! For other questions/concerns/discussion topics/rants/raves/etc - please head over to the Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup. Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:07:08
Hey There Readers, Eric from the Spaces team guest blogging today. I wanted to share my thoughts on a relatively new Messenger feature that I’ve really been digging lately – “Music Mix”. In case you haven’t discovered it yourself, “Music Mix” allows you and a buddy listen to a shared music playlist simultaneously. For example my old friend Scott, who is a huge music fan, lives in New Jersey and I live in Seattle. We chat on Messenger all the time. Now with “Music Mix” he can play me all the cool new songs he’s been listening to right from a Messenger window and I can share my favorite tracks instantly with him. It’s like having your own little private jukebox. Both people can add songs to the “Music Mix”, fast forward or rewind and the changes will instantly be mirrored on each other’s mix. So if one person declared “whoa, awesome drum solo” the other would have just heard said awesome solo at the same time. To start listening to music with your friends click on the Activities tab and select “Music Mix”. Here I am schooling my pal Rob on some classic Prince:
And if you want to share a playlist of songs you are particularly proud of you can create a Music List on Windows Live Spaces. You can make this list look extra cool by adding album covers from Amazon.com (note: this part is only available in some markets).
---- If you have thoughts on this post or "Music Mix" feel free to leave a comment. For other questions/concerns/discussion topics/rants/raves/etc - please head over to the Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:12:37
Hi all, Back in November we shipped the final version of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 along with several other Windows Live applications and services. A lot of you have already upgraded, and for that we thank you and hope you’re enjoying it as much as we enjoyed building it. Starting soon, we’re going to make it easier for those of you who haven’t upgraded yet to get onto our latest and greatest. This will happen in two phases. First, everyone running Windows XP or Windows Vista will get a prompt encouraging you to upgrade. When you accept the upgrade, the new unified installer will launch and start upgrading Messenger. While it’s installing, you’ll have the option to download and install other Windows Live applications. You don’t have to take any of them, but we think you’ll like them and hope you’ll give them a try. It will take a couple of weeks for us to get this upgrade out to all users, so if you don’t get it right away don’t worry, it’s coming. If you don’t want to wait, you can go to http://get.live.com/messenger/overview to download and install Messenger 8.5 right now. After everyone’s gotten the optional upgrade, those of you still running a beta version of Messenger 8.5 will receive a required upgrade to the final version. When this phase kicks in you’ll be blocked from logging in until you complete the upgrade. The final version is even better and more stable than the beta versions, we want you to have the best experience possible! A special note for those of you running Messenger 8.5 Beta on Windows XP 64-bit or Windows 2003 Server: the final version of Messenger 8.5 will not install or run on your OS. We don’t want you to get stuck out in the cold so you will not receive the mandatory upgrade to the final version. However, these operating systems won’t be supported by future Messenger versions. You may stay on your current beta version, or to get to a more stable final version we recommend that you uninstall Messenger 8.5 and go back to Messenger 8.1. ---- If you have a comment on this post please comment! For other questions/concerns/discussion topics/rants/raves/etc - please head over to the Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup. Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:55:37
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Hi, I’m Anand, the security PM for Windows Live Messenger. If you are using a Windows XP or later system, then there is no reason why you shouldn’t be using the latest and greatest released version of Messenger. Messenger 8.1 was released earlier this year. It the most stable and reliable version of Messenger. It also has the latest security updates. There is a security vulnerability in the earlier versions – MSN Messenger 6.2, 7.0 and 7.5 and Windows Live Messenger 8.0. This is discussed in the security bulletin MS07-054. However, this security vulnerability doesn’t affect Windows Live Messenger 8.1. There, I gave you another reason to upgrade to Messenger 8.1. Unfortunately, not all of our users read this blog and so we have found another way to make sure that they protect themselves by using Messenger 8.1. Some of you might remember that upon logging in to Messenger you occasionally get toasts recommending an upgrade. Well, with this new security issue gone public, we need to raise it up a notch in order to protect the users. We will soon configure the service such that any user on Windows XP or later system has to use Windows Live Messenger 8.1. When a user using an older version of Messenger tries to login, the client will help the user with a mandatory upgrade to Messenger 8.1.
Some of you might feel this inconvenient, but in order to protect you and protect the health of the network we have chosen to take this step.
Do users have to upgrade? Yes, once a user has been given a mandatory upgrade notice, they will have to install Windows Live Messenger 8.1. Most users have been given an optional upgrade notice since January 2007.
I am not seeing a mandatory upgrade right now and I am running a bad version of the client, why? The Messenger network uses a rolling upgrade mechanism across the network. It will take several days to get a mandatory upgrade and new bits to all users. What can users do now to protect themselves sooner? Users running Windows Live Messenger 8.1 do not need to take action. Users running earlier versions of Messenger should visit http://messenger.live.com and install Windows Live Messenger 8.1. I use Windows 2000. How can I protect myself? Because Windows 2000 isn’t supported by Windows Live Messenger 8.1, we will provide an updated version of MSN Messenger 7.0. We will upgrade Windows 2000 users to the updated version of MSN Messenger 7.0 after the Windows Live Messenger upgrades. Till then, as a precautionary measure, don’t accept a webcam or a video call invitation from a contact that you don’t trust. If I’m running the new Windows Live Messenger 8.5 beta, am I protected? Yes. Messenger 8.5 beta users are not affected by this vulnerability. ---- If you have a comment on this post please comment! For other questions/concerns/discussion topics/rants/raves/etc - please head over to the Windows Live Messenger Newsgroup. |
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