Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Chrissy
I can, but I didn't ask that?

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well i cant see how its gonna fuck a account up if you use the same one.  but as i said, use another account to play with. on the other PC.

First impressions

• Even in compact view the contacts list is ugly (like spread over the page)
  
• No nicknames
  
• Ads are to big and in your face
  
• Layout seems odd and award :/

The sign in Toasts are too big, the old ones were fine.

=> I like the way it's got services that all exchange data and updates.

**For some reason I'm getting told X is now friends with Y, when I don't know them.

Not sure if this is nothing new but I don't like the idea you can search for people with there name, email or number. I know you can disable it but the amount of people that have no idea may cause problems.

I don't think of it as an instant messenger anymore. It's more of a social application. They could of just released Messenger and made a Windows Live Social and had Messenger and the social bit to it too.

Complaining about RAM usage is just silly. I would like most programs to use more RAM. I have 8GB in this machine and it hardly ever gets used even for 50% .

Whatever is loaded in RAM doesn't have to be loaded from disk. RAM is a lot faster than a harddisk. As long as memory management is smart enough to cut back on usage when  space is running out. Smart usage of available RAM will only make an app faster.

We don't live in the days anymore when everything had to fit in 640k.

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Originally posted by Chrissy
Even in compact view the contacts list is ugly (like spread over the page)

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If you decrease the width of the contact list enough, there will only be one column of contacts.

Aye, but the window is not maximized

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Originally posted by ICQ
this is to funny   how could this be? WLM taking more Ram than firefox

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, but my Firefox is spammed with tabs, so it's around 200MB

But yeah it's around 65 for me.

Anyone using the new beta, the way I am seeing it, you cannot contact your facebook contacts unless they are on your messenger list also? And secondly in the social section is there a way of stopping posts from specific facebook users coming up or not?

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Originally posted by Eddie
you cannot contact your facebook contacts unless they are on your messenger list also?

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Facebook chat isn't added yet, is still coming.

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Originally posted by http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/06/23/announcing-the-new-windows-live-essentials-beta.aspx#comments
good news for you regarding XMPP and Facebook Chat integration.  Like we announced a few weeks ago and again earlier this week with the new Messenger iPhone app, Facebook Chat (via XMPP) *is* coming and will be available later this year.   This will let you do Facebook Chat natively from the Messenger Client, from WebIM in Hotmail and throughout Skydrive and our other web sites, and via the Messenger iPhone app.   stay tuned

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Don't know if this bug is said before:

I always need to install the platform update on my Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 64-bit system and the update is already installed (KB971644)

I already uninstalled those updates, rebooted machine, reinstalled them again, a new reboot,....

Retried to install the new Essentials Beta again, it says again to install the Platform Update

Solution?

Thanks in advance!

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Originally posted by Menthix
Complaining about RAM usage is just silly. I would like most programs to use more RAM. I have 8GB in this machine and it hardly ever gets used even for 50% .

Whatever is loaded in RAM doesn't have to be loaded from disk. RAM is a lot faster than a harddisk. As long as memory management is smart enough to cut back on usage when  space is running out. Smart usage of available RAM will only make an app faster.

We don't live in the days anymore when everything had to fit in 640k

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would you like to pay for a New Motherboard for me that allows up to 8Gig Ram? im sure others would like that to. sure i have 4gigs ram on my board but not the point when Firefox takes so much ram. then you got Thunderbird that takes up to 60MB ram then you  got WLM2010 that takes up to nearly a whopping 70MB ram.  you keep those running an your system will crash with the famous BSOD. so complaining about the Ram usage is not silly IMO. it uses fuck all CPU.

i wouldnt mind having a bet why its using so much Ram, cause it displays Photo's also from facebook, where as trillian doesnt do that, just displays the text.