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hello!

I've just heard there is a beta messenger 8 and that one can get it on invitation.

I would like to know how invitations can be received and from whom?

I know that gmail users would send gmail invitations once they had open an account, would that be the same in messenger 8 case?

thank you

thaly

Go to ideas.live.com and register.

its public now the WLM8 beta.. scroll down mess.be website page an you'll see the languages versions Get WLM8 latest version here

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Originally posted by Animal
its public now the WLM8 beta.. scroll down mess.be website page an you'll see the languages versions Get WLM8 latest version here

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You still need to register you account IIRC and AFAIK.

If someone wants to use Windows Live Messenger for the first time, they need to register and download from there:

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Originally posted by -!Felu!-
Go to ideas.live.com and register.

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or direct main link (in case your browser messes up clicking the link on that page):
http://www.ideas.live.com/mainpage.aspx

According to the WLM Blog, WLM 8 Beta is now open to the world publicly without the need to sign up. Methinks the final is going to be released soon and you know what that means.....

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Originally posted by sufcste
and you know what that means.....

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all our friends argueing how it is not MSN Messenger and is Windows Messenger?

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Originally posted by absorbation

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Originally posted by sufcste
and you know what that means.....

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all our friends argueing how it is not MSN Messenger and is Windows Messenger?

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I must admit: Windows Messenger, Windiws Live Messenger, MSN Messenger, all different. At least now Windows Messenger has been renamed Office Live Communicator.

Windows Live Messenger.
Office Live Communicator.
Very obviously two different programs

Actually Windows Messenger is still a seperate product also. Though support will halt and Windows Messenger will die out (just as with MSN Messenger). Though the difference with Windows Messenger/Communicator and MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger is that WLM is a strait rename of the same product. Communicator is something entirly new (so it isn't a "renamed" new Windows Messenger though).

AFAIK & IIRC

Ah OK, but still, as WLM can be considered a replacement for MSN (it is a complete recode after all), OLC can be considered a replacement for WM.

It seems to me that people are still guna just call it "msn" ... like " are you going on msn later?" i doubt people will start sayin " going on windows live messenger?" I duno maybe im just being silly but it would be easier to just say msn! ..... or WLM in blogs and posts!