Well its been talked about sooo long and now atlast its there

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Back in May, 2003 we exclusively revealed MSN Messenger 6.0. This time around it's 6.0's bigger brother, 7.0. MSN Messenger is clearly progressing in this early look at 7.0. You now have the ability to sign in as busy/away/offline etc which will please a lot of people. 3 Degrees is finally encorporated into MSN Messenger (something I had been writing about for more than a year). The interface is cleaner, smarter and the features are great!

Winks: Winks allow you to send kisses, hearts and all sorts of silly cartoons to your contacts.

Nudge: Nudge allows you to send a "shake" to your contact. Both your own and your contacts MSN Messenger window will shake, much like how Internet Explorer windows shake using the correct javascript.

Download packs: Download packs will allow users to grab winks/emoticons/display pictures and backgrounds straight from MSN. As these currently don't work we were unable to test them.

Games: As always MSN Messenger comes with games but these are currently down so we're unsure if there are any new titles.

Activities: Activities allow you to share files, calendars, photos and perform tasks such as remote assistance.

Deluxe Display Pictures: Although these are unavailable it seems like MSN are going to supply animated display pictures.

The build in question is 7.0.0205 and carries the beta tag throughout. The main MSN Messenger window is redesigned to show your display picture and includes the ability to scroll through tabs. There's no new options in the main options menu but you can change the position of the tab icons. When a contact signs in using MSN Messenger 6 or above you get the contacts display picture on the sign in toast. Custom emoticons are still the same, they still do not animate or allow animated GIFs etc. Check out the screenshots below for more features and the general user interface. MSN Messenger 7.0 is expected to be released into beta on November 11 with a general "MSN Messenger Wave 10" release as late as February 2005. We'll keep you updated but for now enjoy the screenshots.

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Nice. I think it looks good. Can't wait for when betas get out.

about time

*cough* yahoo messenger *cough* if you havent experience the new yahoo messenger yet, just go download it, it'll be like msn messenger 7. heh...i laugh at the fact, i got rid of yahoo messenger for those reasons...they annoyed me, and they're coming back

but we dont know if its really true, do we?

well then i have to wait with downloading the new version of msn messenger untill i comeback from france (arround 7april i'll be back then) i hope it doesnt take longer then that

note one more post and i have "200 posts"

Personally, I think the winks'll get annoying, i was testing the Beta of Three Degrees and yeah, it got pretty annoying...

Everything I've read so far about this beta (on other forums) is the same: "bloated", "useless things added", "annoying nudge/winks", "yahoo messenger"...

And tbh, this time I must agree with them. If this is the true direction they are taking, then it will stop right there for me....

But, only time will tell.... We'll see....

if microsoft was really good theyd detect weather you had style xp (legal visual styles) installed and skin the contact window to the visual style.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Everything I've read so far about this beta (on other forums) is the same: "bloated", "useless things added", "annoying nudge/winks", "yahoo messenger"...

And tbh, this time I must agree with them. If this is the true direction they are taking, then it will stop right there for me....

But, only time will tell.... We'll see....

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Originally posted by toddy
maybe you will be able to disable it ????
and if not, maybe patchou could make messenger plus stop things like nudge

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Omg finaly somethign to go on...The screenshots are very cool, so is the information about msn messenger 7.0..I cant wait till the beta is out...See it in 2005!

yea you see it in 2005 and i see it this year nov the 11th

i can see the shaking windows getting very very annoying...!
what if your trying to play a game or sumthing and you have a dozen users shaking your msn window in the background? surely they will have an option to disable it!
Chestah

Don't worry Beware^^ I will get to see it..I'll pay someone to send me it...And it will be out on the internet...How will you get it btw

       you that desperate to Pay for msn7.0 Beta?  what a waste of money, i'd have to agree with cookie. msn6 is nice, if these Features do turn out to be in the final, it'll be a  loss for the MSN Messenger Community an Microsoft , by the looks of msn7.0 has a lot of Bloatware in it, an that Search  Bar, you'll most likely be forced to use MSN Search an not have a choice of search engines

All I have to say is, it's for real.
And really, if you can get the beta, that's great. But parade that fact around and then say no when people ask you to send it to them and you will be hated. I find that rather annoying myself, so beware .

Wow, this looks like a great version.  All I can say to those of you dying for it is just wait...It wont be private long, MSN Messenger Betas have always leaked and people have always gotten there grubby little fingers on it.

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Originally posted by Dane
Wow, this looks like a great version.  All I can say to those of you dying for it is just wait...It wont be private long, MSN Messenger Betas have always leaked and people have always gotten there grubby little fingers on it.

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Omg you saying that it wont work for  Windows 98? that will suck cause I have that

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Originally posted by Sean
Still appliing that it might not work on some operating systems

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Mmm... Cool interface changes, but... I think could be better... And useless new features... What the hell is going to happen with the "Shake Window" feature? If your contact starts to "flood it"...

Expect to see what happens in the nexts months.

* Mippo sees loads of Messenger Plus! problems coming with this new (very cool) version...

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Originally posted by Jolo
Mmm... Cool interface changes, but... I think could be better... And useless new features... What the hell is going to happen with the "Shake Window" feature? If your contact starts to "flood it"...

Expect to see what happens in the nexts months.

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well my point was that it will be a beta release  READ HERE !!!!!!! MSN Messenger 7.0 is expected to be released into beta on November 11 with a general "MSN Messenger Wave 10" release

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Originally posted by Sean

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Originally posted by Jolo
Mmm... Cool interface changes, but... I think could be better... And useless new features... What the hell is going to happen with the "Shake Window" feature? If your contact starts to "flood it"...

Expect to see what happens in the nexts months.

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It's like yahoo messenger, it's like the "BUZZ" feature..And I am sure that they will put a limit to how many times you can buzz a person in a short amount of time....And hopefully they will add a feature were you can block out the "shakes"..

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People waiting for betas... just wait till the official release is out, there's a reason why it is beta you know... .

I don't like the new nudge feature, it will get really irritating. If people will use those cartoons (winks) a lot I will dislike it soon too.

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Originally posted by Sean
Still appliing that it might not work on some operating systems

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damn. all useless, except animated DP's. interface is more graphics oriented than useful.

and animated dp's will get exploited. anyone remembers the popular msn crashers ?

heheh yup even made a MSN Bot that when you talked to it crashed youu in perl... ahhh those where the days lol

Well im sure there will be attempts but im certain it will be all resolved in time.... remember all the crashers where before.... e.g. The Invalid Headers and Curroupted Images been sent all used to crash but not now

i bet that if the buzz and wink features were added someone would figure out how to disable them with a hex editor

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Originally posted by lizard.boy
i bet that if the buzz and wink features were added someone would figure out how to disable them with a hex editor

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Well definatly contact management in MSN Exp now also edits the contact managment of MSN Messenger 7, they are comming closer together..... however they are not merging by anymeans at the moment from the look of it.... just been cross compatable.... but this is microsoft, anything can happen.

I can't believe it, the time i was going to see a screenshot of msn messenger 7, they were removed by the request of microsoft, thats the most annoying thing in the world, so anyone got them saved to your pc? So I can see the pictures???

It sounds great...

crap, that sucks. i saw them (but didnt save them) and personally i dont think you missed much. the only thing i liked is the DP in the online popups (which trillian has already anyway so it's nothing new to me)

Anyone who needs them drop me an email to

reisyboy@gmail.com

wanna see the pictures too..

Looks nice but did we need a buzz/huge animated things apear on the screen feature? I hope that somebody figures how to remove them from our bar because it looks kind of too crowded.

Im sure Patchou may make a plus feature to disable it, like the advert banner.... or someone will make a patch.

Talking about crashing MSN - do you think it's possible these pictures with virus' encoded into them will pose as a threat (say if they are used as display pictures or custom emoticons)? If so, a person could infect your computer just by you opening a contact window with them!

More info: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3701640.stm

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Originally posted by Chris.
Talking about crashing MSN - do you think it's possible these pictures with virus' encoded into them will pose as a threat (say if they are used as display pictures or custom emoticons)? If so, a person could infect your computer just by you opening a contact window with them!

More info: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3701640.stm

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It doesn’t look like theirs animated DP . I would have thought there would be more in MSN 7 then that, not to impressed. Better then 6 though

Theres something called "Deluxe Pictures"... no idea if thats animated... but its most likely subscription.

And, for all those people I read on the first few pages, you can turn "Nudges" off in the options (I haven't read all the pages of this thread if its already listed though, lol)

Tools, Options, Messages, Allow people to send me Nudges

If its disabled, you can't send nudges yourself either.

You can also stop playing Winks automatically too.  Only morons would abuse these features.. so why would you have them on your contact list anyway?

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Originally posted by Darkness2k
Theres something called "Deluxe Pictures"... no idea if thats animated... but its most likely subscription.

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Originally posted by Darkness2k
Theres something called "Deluxe Pictures"... no idea if thats animated... but its most likely subscription.

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