Shoutbox

A new build of Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta will be released on 30Th October on http://get.live.com/.

New features :
- New skin for contact card
- News emoticons and winks
- Our avatar will be hosted on the Microsoft 's servers so, we always will have our avatar on every computer.
- Security update
- .....

Sory for my bad english .
More on http://www.msncreative.net (french)

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Originally posted by Poska
Windows Live Messenger 8.1 will be released on 30Th October on http://get.live.com/.

New features :
- New skin
- News emoticons and winks
- Our avatar will be hosted on the Microsoft 's servers so, we always will have our avatar on every computer.
- Security update
- .....

Sory for my bad english .
More on http://www.msncreative.net (french but can be translated in english with Voila)

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Originally posted by MSN Creative (Translated by Google)

On October 30, beta of WLM 8.1 will be available on the site of ideas.live.com. The users will be invited by email and via the Msn page to download it today.

This new version will include/understand the following updates:

    * New design of the charts of contact, posting of the photographs.
    * The misadventures will be preserved whatever the computer on which the user will be connected.
    * Increased safety.
    * Improved authentification
    * New winks and emoticons
    * Possibility of posting the site where one is in message perso

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I wouldn't get excited as yet. I highly doubt WLM 8.1 will see a October 30 release. That is on monday, and personally think there's much more testing to be done.

What it COULD be is that Monday could see a more public beta beginning. But yet again, this is only speculation at this stage. Nothing has been confirmed. But i can almost certainly say that Monday won't be the date when it is Officially released (out of Beta)

~Salem

heaven.fr reported this, they didn't seem to quote their sources. Release dates can create a lot of hype especially as testers have received no new build yet. It would be careless to release an un-tested build.

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Originally posted by absorbation
heaven.fr reported this, they didn't seem to quote their sources. Release dates can create a lot of hype especially as testers have received no new build yet. It would be careless to release an un-tested build.

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Hm...Heaven also do some of MSNs promotion stuff in the UK (if i'm not mistaken).

But this still doesn't mean it is true though.

~Salem

The managed 8.1 testers got a newsletter from Microsoft last Monday saying that there will at least be 2 more beta builds (a normal build and one released through automatic update). Niether of these two are released yet, so public release on the 30th is extremely unlikely.

If it's releasing on ideas.live.com, it's just going into public beta, not a release

Considering this is the "vista version" and Vista will be available to some customers less than a month from now, this doesn't surprise me.

Sorry, i gaved an erroneous information . It will be a new beta build.
I will change my previous post.

When is 8.1 realesed (not bete the whole thing)


sorry for spelling

If 8.1 does get released, i hope patchou will release plus Live 4.10 at the same time.
I doubt it will get released on the 30th, but we can hope...

I have no doubt the PUBLIC version of WLM 8.1 will not be released on monday. The current beta is far too unstable to be considered an improvement over WLM 8.