Shoutbox

Windows Live Messenger Build 8.0.0689.00_Branches (Beta) has been publicly released. Although it is *sighs* still a Beta, the official blog (here) says that not much will change between this version and the final (unless they find any major flaws). What I hope this means is that when it IS released as a final, Messenger Plus! Live 4.0 will be able to be released very shortly afterwards.

The new Beta is a bit different from previous ones, but I don't think WLM 8 is that far removed from MSN Messenger 7.5.

Please reply to let me know what you think, and if it is as buggy as the last version.

just as buggy an crappy IMO ..taking up to 50MB Memory. thats with the contact list Open , im sure its bound to get higher

Yeah, 75MB here with the contact list open., 82MB with the contact list and a chat open (1 chat)...

Yeah mine takes up to about 50k mem when the chat list is open.. 20k otherwise.. and with chat windows it takes up even more..Thats pretty crap IMO, although the new interface looks nice and the colour scheme is better. I Still think its too cluttered but a-patch fixes that nicely. Thank god for ad-ons and patches.

Hello, I know you'll all think me really, really, really stupid, but I was just reading this thread and was wondering if I could try out the latest build too.  How do I do that?  and is there anything really bad I should know about it if I am going to try it?  You see my system is a little unstable at the moment anyway, still managable though.

Anyway, if someone could direct me as to downloading the latest build would be good.

Thanks.

they'd better get teh memory usage down soon or it won't be that popular

its a shame that Messenger is taking up so much memory, people will just go to programs like trillian once people see how much memory WLM8 uses,  which wont do patchou any good with MPL4 on the way, . the MSN team need to work on getting its Mem usage down

Im hitting 33,000 kb memory usage Almost doubled from the previous public beta build (my computer anyway) I agree with the majority that the memory needs to be dropped, although i dont think it will drive users away.

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Originally posted by scifiswain
Hello, I know you'll all think me really, really, really stupid, but I was just reading this thread and was wondering if I could try out the latest build too.  How do I do that?  and is there anything really bad I should know about it if I am going to try it?  You see my system is a little unstable at the moment anyway, still managable though.

Anyway, if someone could direct me as to downloading the latest build would be good.

Thanks.

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Just go to http://ideas.live.com and sign up - everyone is accepted now and you can download the Beta from there.

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Originally posted by DevilFX
Im hitting 33,000 kb memory usage (Smilie) Almost doubled from the previous public beta build (my computer anyway) (Smilie) I agree with the majority that the memory needs to be dropped, although i dont think it will drive users away

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i wouldnt be so sure of that. thats why many people use trillian an or other IM clients because of the Memory hog. not everyone has powerfull with a huge amount of memory in there system