Shoutbox

Across the blogosphere reports are surfacing of Windows Live Messenger for Mobile users encountering the warning message in the screenshot above about a 30-day trial, suggesting that Microsoft may begin charging for the service (CLARIFICATION: This is Windows Live Messenger for Windows Mobile, Not Windows XP/Vista).  No official comment has been given on the situation from Microsoft yet, but my question is, Would you pay a fee to use Windows Live Messenger for Windows Mobile?  Why or why not?  What do you think of Microsofts plans to possibly charge for their mobile service?

Source: MoDaCo

No.

I'd just use a web based one =/

Hmm, just checked but didn't get any message like that.

Would suck if they were to charge for their mobile service, now that i finally own a WM device since a few days. I would never pay for it. I wouldn't pay for the regular Live services either, and the Mobile services are a heavily stripped down version of it... it's simply not worth paying a subscription fee. I might consider a small one-time fee but only if it was below $5 and i would be addicted to chatting on a tiny screen.

Windows Live comes with Windows Mobile, technically we already paid for it when buying the WM powered device.

Wow, didn't see that, will try it as soon as I get home..
But question though.. would this apply to people using WI-FI as well? I only use WLM with my wifi..

And the answer to the question is no..

Microsoft has now officially commented and said that the message was received in error and their are no changes to the way Windows Mobile is offered.

newbs got owned up

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Originally posted by Dane
Microsoft has now officially commented and said that the message was received in error and their are no changes to the way Windows Mobile is offered.

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Further explaination :

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Originally posted by Jeff, Microsoft
Hi folks, Jeff from Microsoft here (any Mobians on the thread will know me from Amsterdam and a few other events) – first of all, sorry for taking so long to get back to you; we needed to do some investigation as Windows Mobile users were not supposed to get that message.

Here’s what happened: This week we rolled out a direct-to-consumer billing service for the Windows Live client on Nokia S60 in the UK and Sweden. Although we are considering doing the same at a future time for Windows Mobile, this has not been implemented – however, something happened and many of you saw a trial message on Windows Mobile devices. Windows Mobile customers shouldn’t have received any notifications of a 30-day trial and we are working as quickly as possible to correct this.

As you may know, we offer Messenger services through mobile operators on lots of handsets, not just Windows Mobile. Traditionally, customers have been billed by their mobile operators for many of these services, either directly or through their data package.

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