A new build of Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta will be released on 30Th October on http://get.live.com/.

New features :
- New skin for contact card
- News emoticons and winks
- Our avatar will be hosted on the Microsoft 's servers so, we always will have our avatar on every computer.
- Security update
- .....

Sory for my bad english .
More on http://www.msncreative.net (french)

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Originally posted by Poska
Windows Live Messenger 8.1 will be released on 30Th October on http://get.live.com/.

New features :
- New skin
- News emoticons and winks
- Our avatar will be hosted on the Microsoft 's servers so, we always will have our avatar on every computer.
- Security update
- .....

Sory for my bad english .
More on http://www.msncreative.net (french but can be translated in english with Voila)

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Originally posted by MSN Creative (Translated by Google)

On October 30, beta of WLM 8.1 will be available on the site of ideas.live.com. The users will be invited by email and via the Msn page to download it today.

This new version will include/understand the following updates:

    * New design of the charts of contact, posting of the photographs.
    * The misadventures will be preserved whatever the computer on which the user will be connected.
    * Increased safety.
    * Improved authentification
    * New winks and emoticons
    * Possibility of posting the site where one is in message perso

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heaven.fr reported this, they didn't seem to quote their sources. Release dates can create a lot of hype especially as testers have received no new build yet. It would be careless to release an un-tested build.

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Originally posted by absorbation
heaven.fr reported this, they didn't seem to quote their sources. Release dates can create a lot of hype especially as testers have received no new build yet. It would be careless to release an un-tested build.

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The managed 8.1 testers got a newsletter from Microsoft last Monday saying that there will at least be 2 more beta builds (a normal build and one released through automatic update). Niether of these two are released yet, so public release on the 30th is extremely unlikely.

If it's releasing on ideas.live.com, it's just going into public beta, not a release

Considering this is the "vista version" and Vista will be available to some customers less than a month from now, this doesn't surprise me.

Sorry, i gaved an erroneous information . It will be a new beta build.
I will change my previous post.

When is 8.1 realesed (not bete the whole thing)


sorry for spelling

If 8.1 does get released, i hope patchou will release plus Live 4.10 at the same time.
I doubt it will get released on the 30th, but we can hope...

I have no doubt the PUBLIC version of WLM 8.1 will not be released on monday. The current beta is far too unstable to be considered an improvement over WLM 8.

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Originally posted by Chestah
I have no doubt the PUBLIC version of WLM 8.1 will not be released on monday. The current beta is far too unstable to be considered an improvement over WLM 8.

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new skin

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* Nouveau design des cartes de contact, affichage des photos.
* Les avatars seront conservés quel que soit l’ordinateur sur lequel l’utilisateur sera connecté.
* Sécurité augmentée.
* Authentification améliorée
* Nouveaux clins d’œil et émoticônes
* Possibilité d'afficher l'emplacement où l'on est en message perso

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Originally posted by MenthiX
The managed 8.1 testers got a newsletter from Microsoft last Monday saying that there will at least be 2 more beta builds (a normal build and one released through automatic update). Niether of these two are released yet, so public release on the 30th is extremely unlikely.

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Originally posted by MenthiX
The managed 8.1 testers got a newsletter from Microsoft last Monday saying that there will at least be 2 more beta builds (a normal build and one released through automatic update). Niether of these two are released yet, so public release on the 30th is extremely unlikely.

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I can confirm, no new builds available at the moment, just newsletter (I'm managed tester)

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Originally posted by xJ +
Do note that it will seriously spoil Microsoft's reputation if an extremely buggy beta is release to the public as a public beta. moreover, the current build crashes as and when it likes.

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Originally posted by words06
When is 8.1 realesed (not bete the whole thing)


sorry for spelling

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Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta going public tonight

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Originally posted by dwergs at mess.be
French bloggers last week were let in on an exclusive regarding the next 8.1 beta-release and we can indeed confirm their reports that Windows Live Messenger 8.1 will go into Public Beta starting this evening (US time). The new build will be downloadable (as previously announced) by all of you from the official ideas.live.com website. No information on any new features yet, other than the ones we've already covered in the private builds. Anyway, watch this space for more!

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Gonna be interesting to see what bugs are fixed and "whats new", i might install it for a quick mess around and trial, because i cant be without plus for long

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Originally posted by Shadow
Gonna be interesting to see what bugs are fixed and "whats new", i might install it for a quick mess around and trial, because i cant be without plus for long

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Originally posted by markee

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Originally posted by Shadow
Gonna be interesting to see what bugs are fixed and "whats new", i might install it for a quick mess around and trial, because i cant be without plus for long

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Keep a copy of 8.0 as well then.  It's not hard to have both, just do a search I'm sure you will find threads about it when people were changing from 7.5 to 8.0 beta.

Btw, I hope they do make this build more solid than the last, it seemed very limited with the features it added from 8.0 but still was more buggy, you'd think with the time they would have added more than just that imo.

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its going public tonight,we must wait bout 3-4 hours for see whats changes.

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Originally posted by RaPLeX
its going public tonight,we must wait bout 3-4 hours for see whats changes.

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Quoting another source, the date of the release has been delayed.. Someone could affirm?

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- "when we release something we will announce it".
- "one thing about MS is that we make many plans and unfortunately those plans can change quickly, that is why it is not good to leak information".

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Originally posted by Poska
Quoting another source, the date of the release has been delayed.. Someone could affirm?

    quote:- "when we release something we will announce it".
    - "one thing about MS is that we make many plans and unfortunately those plans can change quickly, that is why it is not good to leak information".

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http://lapytsh.free.fr/ (typo in your link )

My French is not that good, I can't make up from Google's translation if their source is a beta program manager or just a beta tester.

It does say however that lapytsh itself doesn't know what to think of the message, so they're not to sure about the source themselves i guess.

I guess we'll find out within 24/48 hours anyway .

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Originally posted by Poska
Quoting another source, the date of the release has been delayed.. Someone could affirm?

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- "when we release something we will announce it".
- "one thing about MS is that we make many plans and unfortunately those plans can change quickly, that is why it is not good to leak information".

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An MS official just commented on the newsgroup for managed beta testers.

He basically said:
- There will indeed be a public beta (confirmed)
- There was an private beta build planned before the public beta will come out, but because MS discovered some more bugs they didn't have the time to release a private beta to managed testers only. So the private build got canceled and the next build the will release will be a public beta.
- He says: "The build that is going out is a major step up from what you've been testing" (so it will be a big improvement from the build that is out now, don't know if he means stability, features or both)

He doesn't confirm the date though. But his reply is in a topic about the same newspost as is discussed here, and he isn't saying the date is wrong either.

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Originally posted by MenthiX
An MS official just commented on the newsgroup for managed beta testers.

He basically said:
- There will indeed be a public beta (confirmed)
- There was an private beta build planned before the public beta will come out, but because MS discovered some more bugs they didn't have the time to release a private beta to managed testers only. So the private build got canceled and the next build the will release will be a public beta.
- He says: "The build that is going out is a major step up from what you've been testing" (so it will be a big improvement from the build that is out now, don't know if he means stability, features or both)

He doesn't confirm the date though. But his reply is in a topic about the same newspost as is discussed here, and he isn't saying the date is wrong either.

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*Salem heads over to Newsgroups*

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Originally posted by MS guy on Private Newsgroups
...is a major step up from what you've been testing...

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It is available to everybody
http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionid=39014087-6c05-4de9-98ac-b37d7ccd5617

The french were right

MsnCreative is super !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks msncreative, I like you

Indeed, the public beta is available for everyone. Sign up is needless though.
Don't be too happy, it's still as buggy as usual.

yup, its out.

ehh i'm still gonna just wait till the new Messenger Plus! Live comes out before i do any updating of my WLM.  I'm making my sister test it out and her computer

IMHO They should've waited before releasing this. The BETA is still too "bugged".

agree, still as buggy as usual, wont even allow me to insert a smiley , ..all i noticed they took out the Locations bit

Will plus 4.01 work with this cos if it dont, PATCHOU RELEASE 4.10 lol

No Plus! 4.01 won't work with WLM 8.1. Patchou is currently working on Plus! 4.10, but it will take time to get the new version working properly with the new WLM build.

You could stick with WLM 8.1 8.0 for now, because there really aren't much new features in 8.1 compared to 8.0... and it looks like 8.0 is still more stable than 8.1 too.

not looks like it, it is

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Originally posted by MenthiX
...You could stick with WLM 8.1 for now...

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* RaPLeX need updated plus! again.

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Originally posted by RaPLeX
* RaPLeX need updated plus! again.

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also Poska should rename the thread,cuz 8.1 released.

Where is this so called "show my location" feature anyways?
Is it country specific?

No, removed, maybe in the final release.

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Originally posted by Goshi
No, removed, maybe in the final release.

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Make sure you back up your custom content as due to a bug it will/might dissapear when you install 8.1

You can do this with MSN BackUp V1.2.1.

I'll wait for Mess Patch & Messenger Plus Live to be updated before i update to 8.1.

Note that the public build of 8.1 that was just released does not kill your smilies, and any smilies that were "removed" with installation of the last build are restored. (They were never deleted, just not loaded properly )

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Originally posted by BeerBro

Where is this so called "show my location" feature anyways?
Is it country specific?

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Originally posted by RaPLeX
also Poska should rename the thread,cuz 8.1 released.

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