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Posted by Ines. Have you ever wanted to search and IM with your friends at the same time ? Or even better, drag and drop news results and share them with your buddies while chatting it up? If you have, great news : this functionality is now available through Messenger ! Joseph Yao, a program manager working on the Search Activity, guest posts to explain it all: What do you share with your friend when you re chatting? Your well wishing for coming holiday? Your album of recent travel in China? Have you ever tried to share a link with them? quot;Yes, of course. I m a shopping expert. My friends often ask me where they can buy the most popular fashionable dress. I will search on the web, find it and send the web page link to them. quot; Aha, then I guess you must have to copy paste the link and close some browser window after you share it with your friend. Don t you feel anything inconvenience doing so? Fortunately, I never need to do so when I want to share such kind of things with my friend. My secret is…… Search in Messenger! How to use it: Open a conversation window Hit quot;Activities quot; Select the top one: Search Input some keyword, and then Go! Tips: It s a single user activity. Your friend won t need to accept anything when you want to search. Requirements: Now available on Windows Live Messenger Beta and MSN Messenger. Currently only available in the US, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan. Coming soon: Spell check Image Search More and more available countries
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guest posted by Program Manager, James What s better than a company that gives out free coffee and soda at any time of the day? How about a company that not only asks it s employees to hack up pre release software, but bribes them with free food, beer, and prizes to do it! I went to Windows Live Hack Day this year intending to help those people who wanted to hack Windows Live Messenger. As I watched things go on I felt like all I needed was a roving camera and a podcast web site to become a Diggnation host. trackback http: revision3.com diggnation I was the lucky program manager to give a presentation on Add ins, these cool new things Messenger has coming soon to a download link near you. Think of add ins as electrical outlets. Developers can write their own code, plug it in to messenger and cool things happen. At the end of the day, we platform developer Katie and I received five completed add in submissions. The winner was a customized per buddy auto responder. With this add in, this guy made it so Messenger sent back different auto responses based which buddies IMed him. Second place went to a developer who built a paternity leave auto responder. As people IMed him, his Messenger automatically responded, informing the buddy that he was gone for a month of paternity leave. There was so much excitement around the fact that Messenger is putting energy into building things like Addins I m sure we ll have WAY cooler stuff to show off next year. But I m getting ahead of myself to find out more about what s coming out soon on the Windows Live Developer front, check out some of these other sites and blogs some have it right, some have it wrong, but all are excited! WL Experimentation Platform LiveSide: Add ins Mess.be: More on Add ins
posted by Nicole I have heard a lot of questions about the upcoming release of Windows Live Messenger. So I have compiled this FAQ about the upcoming release. Remember FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions… Not answers. Take the quiz now it is mostly multiple choice and come back later to check if you got a When can I use the next release of Windows Live Messenger? A. 1 week B. 2 weeks C. 5 weeks D. B amp; C E. All of the above I want to be alerted as soon as it is released. What is the best way to do so? A. Physic Powers B. Sign up for Messegner Says Alerts C. Repeatly clicking refresh button on ideas.live.com D. E mail Bill Gates and ask to be notified he only gets like 1 million e mails a day I am sure he will reply to you! What will the build number of the release be? A. 888 B. 999 C. 989 D. 898 E. None of the above What will the default color of the client be? A. Red B. Yellow C. Blue E. Green F. Purple G. Orange H. Pink I. Rainbow J. None of the above Did lt;insert bug here gt; get fixed? A. Yes B. No C. Maybe so we did fix a lot of bugs based on your feedback Where should I send feedback? A. Tell your mom and hope that 6 degrees thing works B. Yell at your computer C. Windows Live Messenger Feedback Site D. E mail Bill Gates lt;insert name of friend gt; is stil not using Windows Live Messenger. How can I help them? A. Therapy B. Nothing there is no hope C. Send them to the ideas.live.com they can sign up and download the client right away! I am a Butterfly tester. Will connect be used for this up coming release? A. Yes B. Yes, of course C. Definately not no Why is this queston in blue? A. Nicole loves this question B. Orange font ran out C. It is a hint to another question D. Just for fun What is your favorite thing about the new release? I am sooo excited to hear your guesses for this! But please don t ask for hints my lips are sealed or zipped shut as the emoticon suggests, ouch.
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posted by Marty Shhhhh I don t want anyone to know, but today is Marty s birthday! A special gift will be forethcoming very soon now… but I can t tell you just yet. Just hang in there and another one of our crack bloggers will let the perverbial cat out of the bag. Don t tell anyone I told you ;
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posted by Leah Some questions have come up so far, which i ve answered at the end of this post. I may periodically add to this FAQ Spring was supposed to bring all kinds of wonderful things including and , the birthday of our very own Test master Marty , and the first full non beta release of Windows Live Messenger 8. Well, spring fulfilled almost ALL of its promises… For two Betas now, we ve been paddling down a steady stream of beta tester feedback, the good, the bad, amp; the ugly, er, aesthetically challenged. We ve been trying new things out, experimenting, and attempting to answer the question quot;what IS Windows Live Messenger? quot; Originally, we d planned for springtime to mark the end of the Beta, but like your mom s home cooking, good things take time. So we d like to run one more version by you. Go to www.ideas.live.com to get the third version of Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.0.689 and send your feedback our way. FYI: This version is like a final draft a last chance to make any crucial changes bug fixes. You won t see many changes between this version and the final release. Feel free to keep making feature requests, though we ll add them to the list for the next versions. If you re new to Windows Live Messenger, check out this post and this post, which explain the changes in the last two betas. What s New in Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.0689? Signing In: Integration with the Windows Live the new Windows Live Sign in Assistant for IE makes life way easier if you often sign in with multiple accounts or share a computer with people you trust . The assistant lets the web sign in page use your saved credentials just like messenger does so you can just pick the ID you want instead of retyping it everytime. Oh, and while we re on the topic of sign in, Messenger remembers the display pictures main window color of each ID, so when you switch you re KNOW you ve picked the right one. It s no Jitterbug or Macarena, but check out the new dancing buddies during sign in. Can t see a difference? Besides better looking icons, they re actually spinning the other direction we didn t want them to get dizzy . Also the dance is shorter because Login time is WAY faster than in the previous Betas. Hey Good Lookin: Sweet Colorization Of the Main Window Eye catching Eye cons. Totally new look for Windows Live Call, Computer to Phone Calling brought to you by Verizon, now the MCI is no more To: Line moved locations, check it out: For you minimalists, you: Hiding Display Pictures in one conversation window now hides them in every conversation window More fun for the minimalists now you can keep your windows small, but still get at all the functionality thanks to scrolling toolbar on the conversation window . …And the main window. New default display picture actually, I think it s a little strange Jasmine thinks quot;spooky quot; i think quot;sad amp; cold quot; maybe it will encourage people to get a real display picture Features amp; Functionality: Overall Performance Improvements. EVERYTHING is faster than it was in 7.5 Return of the Today Page, known in a previous life as MSN Today. I wonder if the Today Page team somehow made it sunny in Seattle… My personal favorite feature: No more so and so says: separating consecutive IMs from the same person. Turn this on in the Options Menu Copy amp; paste your friends personal messages especially good if your friend puts a URL as their message. Rhapsody Integration, US only…more on this later this week. Answer a Call straight from a toast until you get a handset, that is New Sounds Management turn on exactly which sounds you want to play when. Upload your own sounds to personalize the music of messenger. Go! Now! Download! And don t forget to come back and tell me what you think. success! I ve been trying to work quot;your mom quot; into a post for a while now. Q: What about Tabs? A: Tabs are there, i just have them turned off, so my screenshots show no tabs, sorry for the confusion Q: What if someone updates their friendly name, and i have a nickname set for them, i ll never see the change. A: good point! i m investigating why this changed…i will file a bug on this. Q: I want the file menus back. A: no problem! In the little dropdown with file, edt, etc, the last option is quot;Show Menu Bar quot; Q: Is this release public? A: This release is not quite public yet, in that you still have to go sign up before you can sign in, but that takes seconds and everone is accepted. Q: Is your color scheme saved for each sign in A: Yes!