Shoutbox

Ok, I get what you're saying, but I'm already a tester, I did download it before, but I want the latest version.  I cant seem to find the link that takes me to download the latest version of WLM .... I only see that I am a tester, and when i'm not signed in it just wants me to sign up.  again I guess you'll all think im silly, but there we are.

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Ah ok I found it now.  I wish theyd distinguish the different builds though, it looks exactly the same as the one i have, at least the filename does.

since its public build you can download it from the official msn messenger beta website which is

http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_EN
download it from there ^^^

Direct downloads to Windows Live Messenger v8.0.0689 in all languages
(No need to login for the download, but you still need a "provisioned account" to sign in with. That means either an invite, being tester, being accepted on ideas.live.com or other methods of getting your account "provisioned")

http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_EN English

http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_NL Dutch
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_ES Spanish
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_DE German
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_FR French
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_JA Japanese
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_KO Korean
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_BR Brazilian Portugese
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_zh-TW Chinese (Traditional)
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_CN Chinese (Simplified)
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_PL Polish
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_RU Russian
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_DA Danish
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_FI Finnish
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_EL Greek
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_HU Hungarian
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_IT Italian
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_AR Arabic
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_SL Slovenian
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_SK Slovak
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_TR Turkish
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_SV Swedish
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_HE Hebrew
http://g.msn.com/1csbeta/Mess80_NB Norwegian

Is someone is looking for the older .0566 build:
http://www.msgforum.nl/hosted/Windows_Live_Messenger_v8.0.0566.exe  (English only, sorry)

Thank you for that as I could not get the page up to download. There website is down at present

Much better than the previous beta version, and now have Windows live today, equivalent to MSN Live today, great!

Its same as 8.0.0683.00_branches. No changes at all.

If I remember correctly, the MSN Beta versions had debugging features in them, which is most likely what is happening here. This makes it easier to find bugs, but makes memory usage get pretty high.
Hopefully in the release version they'll take these out, will probably cut a bit of memory overhead off it.

On the other hand, new features in this build from the last one I had (566 I think):

• * New Sign in Sounds - Don't care for it much myself. When attempting to change these, there is now a built in options form for them, you don't have to open windows sounds.
  * New icons - makes it easier to distinguist online / offline contacts, and who is blocked.
  * The title bar of the contact list has changed colour.
  * When a contact sends you more than one message, it will no longer show their nick twice. Can be turned back on under the "Messages" tab.
  * A new option in "General": Show shadows and animations. Haven't seen it do anything yet.
  * You can now disable Custom Emoticons without disabling the built-in ones.
  * An option under "File Transfer" to install "Windows Live Safety Scanner". Sounds fancy.

There's probably more, but I haven't found a full list yet.

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Originally posted by Ghost of da ages
Its same as 8.0.0683.00_branches. No changes at all.

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I think the main change is that it is a public beta! I'm not sure if .0683.00_Branches was actually meant to be released. I think this is the 3rd (and hopefully final) official Beta version.

Change Log:
http://stiggy.be/msn/index.php/Versions:8.0.0689.00_Branches

Please note: these are the changes since the last public beta. This does not include the leaked branches build.

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
If I remember correctly, the MSN Beta versions had debugging features in them, which is most likely what is happening here. This makes it easier to find bugs, but makes memory usage get pretty high.
Hopefully in the release version they'll take these out, will probably cut a bit of memory overhead off it.

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Well, as far as I know, this is one of the last builds before the official release...so they should remove those debugging things ASAP to ensure the memory issue isnt caused by other things.