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In a quite syrupy Valentine post, the Messenger team has listed a dozen of roses feature requests gathered from your feedback. Although the wish list is officially acknowledged, there is absolutely no guarantee they'll ever make it into Windows Live Messenger. It's like they write: "feature selection for Messenger takes into account many, many factors including customer input, business needs, available resources and level of effort estimates. It's a complicated process but one we know will ultimately produce the best possible Messenger we can build." Now on with the list, copy-pasted (almost) integrally:
* Contact/group unique behaviors, such as playing a unique sound when a specific contact or group member signs in or out.
* Support for multiple accounts at the same time. For instance, someone could log in with their work email account and their home or social email account and send/receive IMs from both groups of contacts at the same time!
* A spelling/grammar checker for conversations. An optional feature to make sure IMs are spelled and worded properly before sending.
* Tabbed chat. Conversations are in one window with tabs allowing you to select individual conversations to be brought forward. (Similar to tabbed browsing in IE7)
* A way to automatically install Messenger updates and fixes without downloading a whole new messenger (like Windows does).
* The ability to appear offline or have different statuses for different groups or contacts. For instance, you might appear offline for group A, busy for group B and yet let 2 or 3 other contacts see you as available.
* An easier way to invite friends and family to download and install and join the Windows Live Messenger community.
* Animated Display Pictures or custom avatars (or other enhanced personalization/online presence features).
* Stored and searchable chat history.
* Better formatting of text within individual IMs – bold, underline, colors, fonts.
* Easier/better search for contacts - maybe a directory of messenger users or better integration with spaces for finding WLM users there?
* N-way audio/video conferencing.
Obviously we have seen a lot of these lists pass by here at Mess.be and polygamy, tabbed conversations, animated display pictures and group-specific statuses are included in nearly all of them. Complete skinning and single file transfer resuming, surprisingly not on this list, are other requests I hear often. Anyway, I've opened a topic/poll at our forums so you Messers can contribute to the discussion, and I suggest you do so because they're definitely listening!
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This kinda sucks becuase plus is going to be eliminated if MS steals plus's features all of the time
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