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Wow, who would have thought that it has been almost 10 years since Messenger was launched. Windows Live Messenger (called MSN Messenger back then) was released to the public on a warm, sunny Seattle day on July 22nd 1999.

With more than 330 million active users every month, Windows Live Messenger has grown quite a bit over the last 10 years! But for a 10 year celebration it?s not all about the numbers ? even more important is how Messenger enabled friendships, changed lives or just brought a lot of fun to a quick chat with a good friend or family member.

We want to learn about those very personal stories and moments and we would ask you to share your story with us. What was your funniest, most unexpected or most emotional moment with Messenger? If you have a great story and you would like to share it with others, please send it to us! Please note that we will publish the best anecdotes in our Windows Live Messenger marketing or public relations communications. Of course we will do that anonymously, only mentioning your first name and home country (and maybe a related picture if you decide to add one).

If you want to share your story and let others participate in your special moment with Messenger, please send your short story in English to IloveMessenger@live.com by June 28th. Please add your first name and home country ? you can also add a related photo if you like. We will share the best stories during the month of July, right here on the blog.

We?re looking forward to reading your personal Messenger story!

The Windows Live Messenger Team

 

Disclaimer:

By submitting your Messenger story and/or photo you agree that your entry only includes material that you own, or that you have permission from the copyright/trademark owner to use.  By submitting your entry, you agree to allow your entry, in its entirety, to be exhibited on the internet and in other media, without compensation.  You further agree to allow your first name, likeness and country to be used in connection with your entry, including exhibition on the internet or in other media, without compensation.

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As we mentioned last week, Windows Live Messenger is turning 10 very soon and as part of our celebration, we will be sharing, here on our blog, different stories from our users, tips/tricks and fun facts, leading up to big day, July 22nd 2009.  We?ll also have special guest posts from people that work on Messenger and from around the community.  It?s going to be a great month so stay tuned.

Today?s Fun Factoid
If Windows Live Messenger was a country, it would be the third largest country in the world (behind China and India, and before the United States) and almost 10 times the size of Canada.

Today?s Messenger user story
Thanks everyone for the stories.  We?ve gotten an overwhelming number of funny, touching and odd stories and there is still time to submit one.  If you want to share your story and let others participate in your special moment with Messenger, please send your short story in English to IloveMessenger@live.com by June 28th.

Our first story comes from Clem from Canada.

?I had just met a really cute girl and we started exchanging IMs on Windows Live Messenger.  Even though we were on IM, I was still pretty nervous (yes, lame i know) but of course, tried to keep it cool.  Things seemed like they were going pretty well and we chatted for a little while until she said she had to go, to work on a finance homework problem that she was stuck on.  Being the helpful guy that I am, I offered to help? (limited finance knowledge, but hey, I had to try).  She sent me the problem over IM and I was in luck, a good friend of mine, Jon, was online.  He?d know the answer.  Quickly, I drafted the IM?

?Yo Jon, I?m trying hard to impress this really cute girl I just met, do you have a moment to help me figure out the answer to a finance problem so I can send it on to her.  You need to help me out, she is so hot!?

?then hit send.  It would probably take him a moment to respond, so I went back to the conversation with the girl? I read the last message and saw my message to Jon posted there? oh I guess I hadn?t switched windows, so I doubled checked? and that?s when I realized that I had posted that message to HER instead of Jon by accident.  My jaw hit the ground and stomach fell out.  I can?t really explain how embarrassed I was, and although I didn?t look in the mirror, I could feel my face heat up and I?m sure I was glowing with embarrassment like a tomato?

I didn?t know what to do? I wished you guys had built in an ?undo? at that point. :)  All I saw from her end was ?Jen is typing?? but no message? then ?Jen is typing? but no words? that went on for about 4-5 minutes, then finally, she said something like ?I have to go to bed, bye? and went offline.

We actually ended up becoming friends but nothing beyond that.  We never mentioned that ?incident?, but my friends still get a good kick out of telling the story to people (yes, I have great friends) ;).  Anyways, I hope you enjoyed that and keep up the great work.?

I actually LOL?ed when I read that the first time.  Thanks for sharing Clem.  I bet many of us have done something similar. :)

Tip/Trick ? Create your own custom emoticon
Did you know you can make your own emoticons from your own photos/images?  This has been around for a little while and is a nice way to be creative and have some fun in Messenger.  Here?s how.

	Step 1 ? Click on the ?Show Menu? button Step 2 ? Click ?Tools? Step 3 ? Click ?Emoticons? Now the Emoticon window will pop up.
	Step 4 ? Click ?Create? Step 5 ? Pick a photo/image to use. *Note: it can be a bmp, jpg, png or even an animated gif. Step 6 ? Type the keys that you want to use to bring up the emoticon.  In this case I?ve picked ?woof? because it?s a picture of my dog.  *Notes: You can pick any keys you?d like.  Just make sure it?s not something you type too often or it will keep appearing in your sentences. :) When you are done hit OK.
	Step 7 ? Now scroll down to see your ?Custom emoticons? Step 8 ? Your emoticon now shows up and you can use it.
	I open a chat with Dharmesh, since he loves dogs and I send him the emoticon just by typing ?woof?.  Once it shows up in his conversation window, he can right click and add it to his collection. Have fun.

 

Thanks for reading.

The Windows Live Messenger Team

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The 10th Anniversary of Windows Live Messenger is less than 2 weeks away.  As part of the celebration, we?re posting fun/touching stories from users and today?s Messenger story is from Cindy, who works in the Microsoft China office.  It?s a great story, let us know if you?ve tried this yourself and what your results were. :)

A quick Messenger fun fact:  Windows Live Messenger is available in 76 countries and 48 languages ?Messenger users can say ?I love you? not only in English, Spanish, German and Japanese (the initial 4 languages) but also Chinese, Estonian, Thai, Catalan, Hindi and many more. (How many languages can you say ?I love you? in?  Try it out? I could only get to 5? :))

Tips on how to propose via Windows Live Messenger
(Sent in by Mr. Zhang in China) 

A few days ago a coworker of mine successfully proposed to his girlfriend via his Windows Live status message. It caused such a commotion around here that everyone and their dog knew. For those of you who are still digging around in your brains for a creative proposing strategy, let me share with you his little success story.  Let?s start off from the beginning. One regular afternoon at work, he suddenly changed his Windows Live Messenger status message to: ?Today I am proposing. Everyone, please help me send a text at 19:00 that says: XiaXue, please marry Liu YunShan!? At first we thought he was just playing around, but he told us he was being serious!

So for the whole day, he kept signing in and out, in and out. It was impossible for anyone who was on Messenger with a pair of eyes to not see his message. It immediately became the hottest topic on Messenger as everyone became interested in helping him out.

Right after work, we all found a good place near the main entrance to hide and watch ?the show.? I even borrowed our company?s video camera to record that special moment. As planned, the lucky lady appeared at around 6pm. Completely clueless, she walked into our building as we bombarded her with our paparazzi-like photography skills. Before she knew it, he appeared right there in front of her, down on one knee. In his hand was a bouquet of 99 fresh red roses. At that moment, everyone in the entire building melted.

Just when she thought things were over, her cell phone began to ring. One ring after another, the Messenger proposal volunteers? messages all came flooding into her cell phone. OMG, it must have lasted for at least 5 minutes. She burst into tears as she read the proposal messages:

?Speaking on behalf of the entire company, I strongly ask that you marry XiaoShan! He has been nominated as the best employee for years! With him, at least your stomach will always be filled!?

?XiaoXue, please take good care of XiaoShan?

?XiaoXue, marry XiaoShan! He is mature, stable, career-driven, has a house, almost has a car? Wait, this is what I?m looking for in a husband! PS: he has sexy legs :) Marry him!?

?Sister in-law, please pay mercy to XiaoShan, he has been singing Single Love Song every day, we?re all about to explode. If he sings that again, beat him up! Hehe, wish you guys the best!?

?Beautiful XiaoXue, marry XiaoShan!?

?XiaoXue, marry the beasty XiaoShan!?

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So touching *sniff*.

The proposal strategy was successful: the couple went and registered the next day.

One of my friends heard about this success story and decided to follow suit. He, however, did not ask for help. He just went ahead and proposed to his girlfriend in his status message:

?My dearest Lan, here are 999 roses, please be my beautiful bride, will you marry me??

After crying her eyes out, Lan agreed. Sure, it was pretty cheesy, but a few days later they registered too. We must admit that this strategy works, and it works pretty darn well.

From these two experiences, I have derived a few key points that I would like to share with all the clueless men out there.

1. When proposing, if you are asking for help (XiaoShan?s case), make sure your words are succinct. This will attract more eyeballs and thus increase your success rate. If you are proposing in your status message (Lan?s case), then you gotta be cheesy. Some cheese and corn will do it best. Below is my friend?s plan. Unfortunately, he has nobody to say it to. Notice how he used a lot of roses?

2. You must sign in and sign out at least once per minute! Make sure everyone in your list sees your message!
3. Choose your sign in time wisely. Best time is during working hours when everyone is on Messenger. ;)

Thanks, and good luck! :p

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We are currently experiencing technical issues that may cause you to have trouble sending IMs.  We are working quickly to fix this issue and apologize for the inconvenience.

-The Windows Live Messenger Team

Update: 3:10pm PST

We?ve fixed the issue and things are returning back to normal.  Thanks for your patience.

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Over the past few weeks we have been asking customers using previous versions of Windows Live Messenger to upgrade to the latest version in order to ensure they had the most up-to-date and secure release.  If you?d like to learn more about this upgrade and why we?re doing this, please see the previous blog post, Upgrade Windows Live Messenger.

Starting today, if you are using version 8.1, you will be required to upgrade before you will be able to sign-in.  After upgrading you will be able to sign-in and if you?re interested in learning more about the new release, please visit the Windows Live Messenger information page.

We?ve seen comments from a few users stating that they have had some trouble signing-in after the upgrade and wanted to provide a few resources.  The following links can help you in case you?re having an issue.

Troubleshooting Login Issues	This post from the support team provides some guidance into how to determine what error you are getting and steps to resolve many of these.
Online Help	You can also try the online help pages.  On the left hand side, you can select ?Table of Contents? (near the bottom) and get information on troubleshooting and error codes.
Contact the Support Team	If you have already tried the going through the online help suggestions and still having difficulties then you should consider contacting the Messenger support team and providing them with more information about the problems that you are encountering.

 

Update: Users on Windows XP will need to ensure that they have installed Service Pack 2 (SP2) or higher, otherwise the upgrade will not work.  Instructions to install the latest Service Pack (SP3) can be found here.  Additionally, here is more information about the system requirements.

Thanks,
The Windows Live Messenger Team

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In September, we began asking users on 8.1 clients to upgrade to the latest version of messenger to ensure that they had the most up to-date and secure release.  (see post)

Starting today, users on version 8.5 will also be required to upgrade before they can sign-in to the service.  Starting on the November 9th, users on Messenger 2009 (version 14) will need to upgrade their clients too.  Users who have already installed the latest version, which was released Aug 18th 2009 (Build: 14.0.8089.726),  will not be required to upgrade.

If you are using Messenger 2009 and are curious what version you have, you can go to the Help ?> About Menu.

If you have any issues or questions during the upgrade process, here are the places you can go to get some answers.

Troubleshooting Login Issues	This post from the support team provides some guidance into how to determine what error you are getting and steps to resolve many of these.
Online Help	You can also try the online help pages.  On the left hand side, you can select ?Table of Contents? (near the bottom) and get information on troubleshooting and error codes.
Contact the Support Team	If you have already tried the going through the online help suggestions and still having difficulties then you should consider contacting the Messenger support team and providing them with more information about the problems that you are encountering.

 

Note: Users on Windows XP will need to ensure that they have installed Service Pack 2 (SP2) or higher, otherwise the upgrade will not work.  Instructions to install the latest Service Pack (SP3) can be found here.  Additionally, here is more information about the system requirements.

Thanks for everyone?s continued support.

Sincerely,
The Windows Live Messenger Team

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Dharmesh talks about this in more detail on the Windows Live Team Blog, but I thought it was cool enough for a quick MessengerSays specific post. :)

This week at Mix09 we released the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit which are controls and libraries that connect people who use Windows Live Messenger together no matter where they are from the browser to anywhere Windows Live Messenger runs (PC, Phone, Xbox and Mac).

In other words, we?ve made it very easy to integrate Windows Live Messenger directly into a website using only a few lines of javascript.  Not only does this help make the surfing experience more social, it means that as long as you have a web browser and internet connection, you can still have a great Windows Live Messenger experience.

Here?s a screenshot of the web bar.  You?ll notice that your full contact list and categories are available, you can chat with multiple people at once and you have all your favorite emoticons handy.

The team has done a great job with this and I predict that we will begin to see this toolkit being used on more and more websites going forward.

There is a lot more information on the Messenger Developer blog and I encourage you to head over there if you?d like to learn more about how to add this to your site.

Lastly, here?s a video of Keiji and Steve on stage at Mix09.  Where they show how to add IM to a site with the Windows Live Messenger Library and UI Controls.  We also have an Interactive SDK which allows you to code and learn at the same time.

Have fun with it.
Lonn
Windows Live Messenger

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