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OH MY GOOD!!! just imagine where skinning is going!!!

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Originally posted by dwergs@Mess.be
Forget about the leaked Windows Live Messenger 9 build, it is sooo last month. The LiveSide boys have discovered these two screenshots of what just might be the final version of Windows Live Messenger 9.


>> Screenshot of Main and Conversation windows.               >> Screenshot of Main window personalization options.


Let's sum up changes and possible new features we can derive from these visuals:

1) Main window header (dashboard) backgrounds are customizable.

2) New, bigger e-mail inbox icon located at the right in the header.

3) Personal Status Message (PSM) and "music you're currently listening to" are now separated.

4) Colored display picture frames show the contact's current status: green means available, yellow is away, red is busy, white means offline, pink means pimping. Ok, I made that last one up.

5) Buddy icons in the contact list are replaced with the similarly colored squares.

6) The What's new feed below your contact list keeps you posted on what your contacts are up to in terms of blogs posted or photos uploaded to Windows Live Spaces, files uploaded to Windows Live Skydrive, etc... the potential of this feature is huge). It'll also show a thumbnail picture if applicable and there's a personal feed per contact in the conversation window.

7) Promotional tabs have been moved to the footer, right above the banner ad.

By the way, dear Microsoft, before you send us another DMCA takedown notice, first check out who owns the domain these screenshots are hosted on.

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Ha looks like its gonna get worse that dashboard image replacement thing might cause problems. If its anything like how the contact cards do it its going to be a bit tricky to do.

XP users have nothing to worry about, the majority of problems for skinning will be caused by vista.

lol on a side note they copied the feature where the color of the display picture changes depending on status from me! I DEMAND REIMBURSEMENT!

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Originally posted by warmth
By the way, dear Microsoft, before you send us another DMCA takedown notice, first check out who owns the domain these screenshots are hosted on.

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The pictures appear to be hosted on msghelp.net now, maybe  you should just link to it rather than hosting it... We don't want DMCA notices either lol

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff

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Originally posted by warmth
By the way, dear Microsoft, before you send us another DMCA takedown notice, first check out who owns the domain these screenshots are hosted on.

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The pictures appear to be hosted on msghelp.net now, maybe  you should just link to it rather than hosting it... We don't want DMCA notices either lol

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I did that to avoid that if somebody erase the original files we won't have anyway of see the new features anymore... that is what dwergs wrote at mess.be not me...

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Originally posted by warmth

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff

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Originally posted by warmth
By the way, dear Microsoft, before you send us another DMCA takedown notice, first check out who owns the domain these screenshots are hosted on.

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The pictures appear to be hosted on msghelp.net now, maybe  you should just link to it rather than hosting it... We don't want DMCA notices either lol

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I did that to avoid that if somebody erase the original files we won't have anyway of see the new features anymore... that is what dwergs wrote at mess.be not me...

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Well, yeah... but they won't get in to trouble if MS see it, MS will just remove the image from their servers... They can't do that with this site though, so will issue a DMCA notice (unless it's not supposed to be secret; it could be a "leaked" picture, like I have a feeling the Google Chrome comic was)

I was wondering where the space, telephone and all those icons will appear ...

This might be controversial but I actaully quite like the look of it

Although yeah, it could make skinning a bit of a nightmare.......but then again, if the interface is decent enough to start with it might reduce the necessity for skins to make it look good

hey i just noticed something. In the left screenshot look at what the ad says:

"Feb 10: In what the writers guild is calling "the best.....""

lol that news item is about the the writers strike how long could MS have had this for..... hmm interesting

Wow...7 months and not leaked...that's quite impressive, lol

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Originally posted by djdannyp
Wow...7 months and not leaked...that's quite impressive, lol

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or.... it could be we are looking at the mockup design and this is not an actual screenshot. Its quite possible MS had this designed early on and yeah haven't reached that point yet. Its done all the time.