Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Menthix
http://windowslivepreview.com/

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Originally posted by http://windowslivepreview.com/
403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.

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It was working earlier

Windows Live
Reviewer's Guide
Coming soon on April 28th

thats what i get on the page

Blah. There was more to see. They'll probably make some official post/announcement and open up again later today.

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Originally posted by ICQ

Windows Live
Reviewer's Guide
Coming soon on April 28th

thats what i get on the page

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I just get the page cannot be found.

Still getting the 403 error....I wanna know

Try again now.

There is loads of info coming out at the moment.

http://messengerpreview.com is the starting point of everything, which will lead you to http://windowslivepreview.com/, which in turn will eventually lead you to http://windowslivepreview.com/messenger/resources where all the videos are.

If you didn't get enough from that, see http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowslive/arch...ive-messenger.aspx. Still not enough? See http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowslive/ which is about a keynote Ballmer is giving/gave in Brazil where he talks more about wave4. The actual keynote should be on demand later, but there already is a demo video online. Also, a 14 minute interview on http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LarryLarsen/New-Wi...Messenger-Preview/ just in case you still didn't have enough. That's all released today, although a lot of things were already known from leaked screenshots.

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Originally posted by @fmartin_MS on Twitter
The Windows Live Wave 4 screenshots are the same M3 of MVP Summit 2010... Not actual version.

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So even while all the above became public today, all the screenshots are from a build which existed at least since late February when the MVPs were shown some screenshots. I guess the only exception to that is the Channel9 interview (which shows Messenger runing directly from someone's PC in the Live team, where all the other screenshots and demos are likely made by a PR company). Notice the smaller ads in the build shown in the Channel9 interview.
Follow @fmartin_MS for interesting wave4 news in general.


As for actually downloading it:
* Supposedly MVPs got access today
* Most likely of all rumors is a limited beta May 18th (relatively small group)
* Public beta June 7th.
...Although nobody is really sure and a lot of people are saying contradicting things. Everbody is just still speculating based on the leaked timeline:

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* 28 April VIP testers will get access to latest builds…
* 18 May WL2010 M3 RTW.
* 3 June Complete Public disclosure.
* 7 June Public Beta Day.
* 7 June iPhone main languages Messenger.
* 25 August iPhone additional languages Messenger + PUBLIC RTW

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The web services and essentials suite can also be released at separate dates and nothing in the time line says which of the 2 they are talking about.

One feature I think I'll like:

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Originally posted by http://windowslivepreview.com/messenger/new
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Availability by category

Once you have those categories, it’s easy to choose your presence availability by category so you can be offline to one set of friends while you’re online to another — letting you decide who can reach you in real time.

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Originally posted by http://windowslivepreview.com/messenger/new

Synchronized status updates

When you post an update, you can have Messenger automatically synchronize that update with your other networks and vice versa.

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Although the interface is not exactly Picasso, I think the feature set has been improved.

* blessedguy waits for Gizmodo.com.br to release more information on this, as they were in the event.

Update: http://www.gizmodo.com.br/conteudo/novidades-do-p...ows-live-messenger

• You can be invisible for some selected people instead of for everyone, without blocking. You can choose to be invisible for selected people or groups.
  
• The video messages work as offline messages.
  
• YouTube videos on chat windows.
  
• Tabbed chats.

wtf this is going to be uglier them 2009! I mean common... why we need more junk in messenger... And i see the crappy "online jewels status" are here to stay... i hate those.

Since this is now Microsoft's app, someday its going to turn into a really big unnecessary program that takes ages to load but gives you: msn, a music player, a video editor, a calculator, a music shop, 500 games in one, youtube player, TV, etc etc...