MSN Messenger 7.0 BETA leaked!

[detn8r]

Extremely good points, Fanatic.

Most of the things that were incorporated into this build were things that many, many people requested in online chat sessions by Microsoft.
Things such as the yahoo rip of "buzz", and sign in under "offline" were heavy things that were asked for. Others like Nudge, or winks or whatever all came over from Three Degrees (as MSN have taken a hell of a long time to throw that into Messenger). Others like the download packs is just things to shut people up from complaining as far as I'm concerned.

As long as it has those god damn animated display pictures, the whole version 7 things will be worth it I guess. I also wouldn't be surprised considering that MS bitched at Neowin for the screenshots that it does become 6.3, rather than 7.

As for the protocol... after v10, I can't see them jumping the gun again, but that's my opinion.

[shifter]

Update from Neowin:

quote:According to Microsoft-watch.com and reliable sources, MSN are planning to release Messenger 7 into beta testing on BetaPlace as early as next Tuesday. We exclusively revealed the new client yesterday amongst a lot of hype and anticipation. MSN were due to encorporate some added features into MSN Messenger 7 but it seems like these are delayed until a later "wave". For those wondering, a "wave" is a release (be it .1 or major).

MSN Spaces integration: Blogging straight from MSN Messenger Window

Personal Information Management: Intergration with MSN Explorer to truely manage your contacts and build lots of information about them.

Since MSN Messenger 7 is now due to beta next week, the public preview will follow in November and an earlier final release is now expected.

The latest build is 207 and we'll keep you updated as always

View: New MSN Instant-Messaging Client to Go Beta Next Week

Blogging straight from Messenger, now that is an interesting concept!

[Fanatic]

AOL already has blogging from their AOL Instant Messenger (the subscriber-only version). It hasn't been a huge success, but that's probably because they wall it off for only their paying customers.

I wonder how many chat conversations will now be showing up in blogs?

The PIM stuff isn't very sexy. There are already a million ways to handle contacts, calendars and to-do lists, and having it managed through my IM doesn't seem to add much value. I like the ability to integrate, though, and get notices via IM (meeting reminders, etc.)... but again, all of this has been available for a long time already.

I do some beta-testing via Beta Place for other MS products; I'll check there next week and see if they throw the MSN Messenger 7 beta my way.

[detn8r]

Some bugs I have encountered:

I recieve the following when trying to close a conversation window with someone that is on my contact list. Anyone who is not, I don't recieve the error. *shrugs sholders*

This one is interesting... they seem to have forgotten to put in the crying emoticon in the list:

And the animated gif fanatics may be interested in this:

Have fun

Hmm I was thinking of trying it out but it could be very annoying that every time you close a message box that error message pops up. Animated gifs is not something I'm looking forward to but the sign in as any status may be pretty cool. I guess I'll wait til the real thing is out.

[detn8r]

Actually, there seems to be a problem with the logging feature. Although it's not a permanent fix, turning off logging does stop the problem from reoccurring.
As for the animated display pictures, I believe someone reported that they will be a pay-to-use only feature. We'll have to wait and see.

[AwesomeSauce]

quote:Originally posted by detn8r

Actually, there seems to be a problem with the logging feature. Although it's not a permanent fix, turning off logging does stop the problem from reoccurring.
As for the animated display pictures, I believe someone reported that they will be a pay-to-use only feature. We'll have to wait and see.

Meh. 'Not like we really need them, anyway. I think the idea of "Winks" is pretty useless too.

I'll download this once it comes out in Nov., when most of the bugs will probably be fixed. Other than those, it looks pretty cool. in ladie-vennom's screenshots, the default skin looks a lot similar to the one in Windows Media Player 10. Microsoft seems to be going somewhere with that.

[detn8r]

I've wipped up some screenshots of features that people may not have first noticed when they installed 7.0. If you come accross anything I may have left out, please feel free to add them here.

http://detn8r.info/msnmessenger7/

[shahid]

downloaded version 7, its nice ...but messenger plus stopped working in it

[FirefoxMan]

um... I really think this is kind of a step down. I mean, the screenshots look like someone just hacked up MSN 6 and released it as version 7. I kinda think that whoever "leaked" MSN 7 is pullin ya'lls leg...