Shoutbox

Hm....I dunno what to make of this supposed Beta leak.

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Originally posted by absorbation
It's fake, it's totally branded by the website

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Originally posted by MenthiX
To those who tried this "WLM 8.5" download... Besides the skin, what are the new features, if any? If this is really 8.5 from MS, surely there must be noticeable new features in it.

Obviously the installer is already not real, and what i've seen from the screenies looks like just another home-made skin.

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Thats what i thought at first too guys. But then i saw that the MessengerAdictos.com branded "installer" just copies the WLM 8.5 into a special Messenger Adictos folder in %programfiles%

What makes me suspicious is that at the end of WLM 8.1 Beta it was confirmed to me by someone "on the inside" that there would not be another 8.x updates, but that it'd be 9.0. But yet the installer appears to be genuinly signed by MS.

And yes, as Chrono said, the same thing happened when screenshots of "Messenger 8" appeared (remember the "orange" GUI?), before it was officially renamed to Windows Live Messenger. Many people (myself included) put it down as being fake due to the orange GUI, and also the lack of "MSN" being in the applications name. And look what happened, that turned out to be genuine.

Could this indeed be a legit version and that MS have decided the next update will be a 8.5, or is it just known as 8.5 now, and will be renamed/renumbered to 9.0 later?

~Salem