{"id":290,"date":"2006-05-23T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/windows-live-messenger-beta-goes.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-15T09:28:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T08:28:38","slug":"windows-live-messenger-beta-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/windows-live-messenger-beta-goes.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Messenger Beta goes public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--114865131006881037--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.live.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/windowslivemessenger.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows Live Messenger\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Windows Live Messenger Beta for a few months now and since I originally wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/first-impressions-of-windows-live.htm\">my first impressions of the product<\/a>, it&#8217;s changed quite a bit (although doesn&#8217;t seem to have overcome any of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/first-impressions-of-windows-live.htm#comments\">the issues which Alex criticised it for<\/a> at the time).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/windowslivemessenger4.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows Live Messenger Beta - new interface\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I still like the new user interface although I haven&#8217;t used any of the telephony or video-chat functions.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.co.uk\/messengerbeta\/\">Windows Live Messenger beta was recently expanded<\/a> and is well worth investigating for those who are currently using MSN Messenger.  Alternatively for cross-network instant messaging without any telephony frills, switch to <a href=\"http:\/\/gaim.sourceforge.net\/\">GAIM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, corporate users should move away from using public IM services and switch to something like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/live-communications-server-2005.htm\">Live Communications Server<\/a> 2005 and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/office\/livecomm\/communicator\/prodinfo\/overview.mspx\">Office Communicator<\/a> client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Windows Live Messenger Beta for a few months now and since I originally wrote about my first impressions of the product, it&#8217;s changed quite a bit (although doesn&#8217;t seem to have overcome any of the issues which Alex criticised it for at the time). I still like the new user interface &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/windows-live-messenger-beta-goes.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Live Messenger Beta goes public<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37,80,88],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-im","tag-lync","tag-windows-live"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows Live Messenger Beta goes public - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/windows-live-messenger-beta-goes.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows Live Messenger Beta goes public - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been using the Windows Live Messenger Beta for a few months now and since I originally wrote about my first impressions of the product, it&#8217;s changed quite a bit (although doesn&#8217;t seem to have overcome any of the issues which Alex criticised it for at the time). 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