Shoutbox

This kind of thing is going to be overlooked in the main window, because the idea of floating contacts is not to have to open the main window as often. This would be good for floating contacts only, providing the background of the contact on the desktop flashed blue to orange and the sound was still made, and it was also brought to your attention by the name jumping to the front of your screen.  When the  convo window is minimised it could go back to the contact on desktop instead of task bar. The message recieved icon on the contacts on desktop could be good for some kind of PM system within MSN...