Build 322 of MSN Messenger 7.5 is now released in full and as a QFE patch following numerous other QFE patches for beta testing this update.

The QFE released is dubbed QFE3, being the 3rd official QFE release, although it's really the 7th patch published.

This release is intended to try and fix sign in issues, John W. from MSN has listed the following things worked on:

• A lot of people were experiencing sign in issues with v7.5.311 (QFE2), we took some changes to fix that or to give better error messages to figure out what was going wrong. And there was another fix to get our error reporting correct. As a byproduct, there have been reports that sign in is faster. If you or someone you know was having sign in issues please give the 7.5.0322 build a try.
  
  
• In Korea, if you were using an IME (Input Method Editor), you would type shortcut for your favorite emoticon and get an extra character. Now emoticons are key to any IM program and it didn't make sense to not fix this (and we found a simple code fix). If you've got contacts in Korea, or know Korean yourself, give it a try!
  
  
• If you had a Dynamic Background from Blue Mountain, bought it and installed it, then the Text Ads which you should have been getting while you had a Dynamic Background on weren't showing up.
  
  
• There is a DLL which is central to our Audio / Video features, we had to take a new version of that to fix a bug where Messenger would crash if you unplug a USB device after running the Audio Video Tuning Wizard on that device.

Why couldn't they just release the darn patch instead of the full installer .

Thanks man.. been waiting for a fix!

Simple question: Is this build (or any after .0311) official? If so, why can't it be downloaded from the official MSN Messenger site?

Updates are always good... Stupidly sized installer though.

I'm pretty sure that the download link is at the MSN Site, as the url is:

http://g.msn.com/7MEEN_US/EN_0322/INSTALL_MSN_MESSENGER_DL.EXE

Don't forget to provide feedback to John Weis on the mess.be forum topic he created:

http://forum.mess.be/index.php?showtopic=13889

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Originally posted by robochief
Simple question: Is this build (or any after .0311) official? If so, why can't it be downloaded from the official MSN Messenger site?

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