Go to the Microsoft Connect Website, click Available Connections, and select Windows Live Messenger 8.1 beta and fill in the survey.

If you don't see it on Available Connections, like me, you can click [link removed] to go straight to the survey.

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Edit by WDZ: Someone reported this post and stated that the survey link was private and shouldn't be posted.

Thanks for that, although shouldn't thhe wlm 8.0 testers be directly chosen for that?

signed up!

Page Not Found error
EDIT: tried again and a different survey came up
worked...

Done

Thanks

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Thanks for that, although shouldn't thhe wlm 8.0 testers be directly chosen for that?

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beta, BETA?!?!!
argh ... here we go again. about 9 months of testing ... and a non beta for only a few months and here we go again ....

Yeah i got an email about it =P Signing up now.

Edit: I'm in!

What is this?. We have the latest version of windows live messenger and now this is a new version coming up?

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beta, BETA?!?!!
argh ... here we go again. about 9 months of testing ... and a non beta for only a few months and here we go again ....

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Managed testers of 8.0 are automatically accepted but get the invite automatically

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Originally posted by HSV

Managed testers of 8.0 are automatically accepted but get the invite automatically

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I was a Managed Tester of 8.0 and i havent recieved an invite, but i have signed up for it, apparently only MSN Butterflies get an auto invite.

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signed up!

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my mistake, from what i was lead to believe it was managed testers of it, .

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Originally posted by Zahid™

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Applied! Thanks for the info

Applied! Thanks for telling

Signed up, thanks for the info..wasn't in the Available Connections list on Connect for me

Maybe i'll get in this time.....

I've applied.

Thanks for the heads up, I've applied.

Biggest question, whats new in this Messenger, will it be the majorly wanted "Tabs", because there isnt much else they can add to the software

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Biggest question, whats new in this Messenger, will it be the majorly wanted "Tabs", because there isnt much else they can add to the software

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Biggest question, whats new in this Messenger, will it be the majorly wanted "Tabs", because there isnt much else they can add to the software

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That would be nice but I doubt it.  The reason why they haven't done it in the past is due to time constrictions and as stated before, it hasn't been too long since 8.0 was publically releaced.

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Originally posted by DevilFX
Biggest question, whats new in this Messenger, will it be the majorly wanted "Tabs", because there isnt much else they can add to the software

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That would be nice but I doubt it.  The reason why they haven't done it in the past is due to time constrictions and as stated before, it hasn't been too long since 8.0 was publically releaced.

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True yes but i remember someone saying to mess.be (this person was someone who worked at microsoft and was known in the messenger community apparently) a while back that the next major release will contain one of the most wanted features, i dont know if this still is true, but what would be classed as most wanted?

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The new....

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One-click sex offender report button added to Messenger

dwergs says:
     

Almost three years ago Microsoft shut down most of their MSN chat rooms because sex offenders were abusing the service to get in touch with under-aged users. The suggested alternative for online chatting at the time was MSN Messenger which allowed buddy list control. Needless to say sexual predators, often by posing as fellow teens, have found their way onto contact lists and police fear that more than 50,000 potential sexual predators are online at any given moment.

Last month 21-year-old Lee Costi from the UK was jailed after persuading a 13-year-old girl to perform sex acts for him to watch via his webcam. An examination of Costi's computer found more than 350 logs of online conversations with young girls in chat rooms and MSN Messenger, as well as with paedophiles around the world. And this is just one case of many, leading the US Congress to debate banning the sale of webcams to those under 18 (the idea has been dismissed by online child protection experts).

"Enough is enough", Microsoft and the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) must've thought, and they joined hands to safeguard children from online sexual abuse and grooming. The result: a Windows Live/MSN Messenger tab with a big red REPORT ABUSE button, and a weekly online safety tip for youngsters.

As for the moment, the tab is only available to people with UK accounts. But the London-based internet child protection watchdog CEOP has up to 100 staff and tracks sexual predators domestically and across international borders, using strategic partnerships and legislative powers to bring them to account.

In similar fashion, Amsterdam police has plans to employ Windows Live/MSN Messenger to investigage crimes involving youngsters or track missing teenagers. According to a spokesperson there are quite a lot of cases in which young people are the most important witnesses. Whether this will turn out to be a Messenger tab as well remains unknown.

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wtf o.o

* Eljay is sooo gonna report traxor as a sex offender.. mwahaha

That wouldnt really be anything worth a Beta vaccination lol, but i agree with markee, all have to wait until Butterflies get hold of it.

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That wouldnt really be anything worth a Beta vaccination lol, but i agree with markee, all have to wait until Butterflies get hold of it.

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I signed up, I hope I actually get picked this time, there are a lot of noobs who got picked in the past who never report bugs

i cant find it, some one tell me where it is

Beta butterflies got an email fro for this (including me) with an Invite ID. Just filled in the Invited ID on Connect and instantly accepted .

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
i cant find it, some one tell me where it is

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Hmm... This is pretty interesting. I doubt if the new feature will be tabbed conversations though. I'd say skins would be more likely to be added and I think skin is something msn should have had ages ago!

Anyway, for the people who have been accepted, have they provided a new build for downloading yet? If so, what about screenshots for us? From the looks of it, I think there's no new build yet though, just invitation for something that is not on development yet. :/

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Hmm... This is pretty interesting. I doubt if the new feature will be tabbed conversations though. I'd say skins would be more likely to be added and I think skin is something msn should have had ages ago!

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for the people who have been accepted, have they provided a new build for downloading yet?

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
i cant find it, some one tell me where it is

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Go to http://connect.microsoft.com/. Sign in, then go on Available Connections and scroll near the botton and somewhere at the end you should see it.



or just click on the straight link to the survey from LiveSide or Mess.be.

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Signed up Hope I get it, i've never been in a messenger beta before And I use it too darn much if anything!

Cloudy

I was WLM betatester but i didn't receive any invitation

You have to be a butterfly to get an invite. Try going to http://connect.microsoft.com and applying there.

Cloudy

Already done

I don't understand why 'Windows Live Messenger 8.1 beta' wasn't on the list for me?

Don't they like me or something?

If you are already trying it out why don'tcha post some f the changes?

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If you are already trying it out why don'tcha post some f the changes?

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Because the beta program hasn't started yet...

Cloudy

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for the people who have been accepted, have they provided a new build for downloading yet?

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No, nothing to download or infor about new features yet.

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Beta butterflies got an email fro for this (including me) with an Invite ID. Just filled in the Invited ID on Connect and instantly accepted .

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i got refused because i was under 18, how fucking pissed off am i considering that WLM is used by the majority of > 18 year olds, and FFS they even invited me to connect in the first place


I always get offered to test shit, like Windows Live Mobile ooo yeah i only have a crappy phone so not bothereing to test that out,  and Office Beta (Which is public beta already ¬_¬)
Seriously pissed off now, been waiting for years to see it in my connect, whole reason i signed up, and now this


ARRRGGHHHH and now connect is fucked up and stuck on an error page keep trying different links all teh same except error code changes, even contact us is out error code is bc559004-d932-4d82-b41c-4a3ba69e4439 at the moment

F**KING MICROSOFT (and i'm normally very tolerant of them but ARRRGGGGHHH *goes to complain but can't because contact us isn't working either , considers going back to sleep*

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i got refused because i was under 18, how fucking pissed off am i considering that WLM is used by the majority of > 18 year olds, and FFS they even invited me to connect in the first place


I always get offered to test shit, like Windows Live Mobile ooo yeah i only have a crappy phone so not bothereing to test that out,  and Office Beta (Which is public beta already ¬_¬)
Seriously pissed off now, been waiting for years to see it in my connect, whole reason i signed up, and now this


ARRRGGHHHH and now connect is fucked up and stuck on an error page keep trying different links all teh same except error code changes, even contact us is out error code is bc559004-d932-4d82-b41c-4a3ba69e4439 at the moment

F**KING MICROSOFT (and i'm normally very tolerant of them but ARRRGGGGHHH *goes to complain but can't because contact us isn't working either , considers going back to sleep*

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is this free ?

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is this free ?

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It seems to not be on the list to sign up to any more, but we'll find a way around it...we always do... even if it means cheating microsoft for the 54th time this year, we'll do it

hmm well i'm pending now thanks for the tip felu

I'm fourteen (today ) but on every Microsoft shits stuff papers I write I'm 18. I applied too, I hope I got picked