Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta Released

http://get.live.com/betas/home

Also, Windows Live Mail beta and Windows Live Writer beta.

I also have a question for you guys.. On a parentally controlled MSN account, the new version of messenger can't sign in. By the way, in parentally controlled accounts you need to be signed in to MSN Premium browser to be able to sign in to messenger, and I can't seem to, messenger can't connect. No error message, it just stops trying. Anyone have any idea what I can do?

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Grrrrr not a beta! I'm gonna have to mod Messenger all over again to get rid of the Add banner in the contacts. Thanks for the link man.

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Yeah, no problem ;)

#458482

Grrrrr not a beta! I'm gonna have to mod Messenger all over again to get rid of the Add banner in the contacts. Thanks for the link man.

Just use A-Patch. It's a snap to remove all those unwanted things from Windows Live Messenger. Also, there's been a lot of users reporting major problems from the new installer Microsoft is using. If you have any problems, check out Neowin. They have a whole thread with hints (I included the steps I used to get everything working properly there as well).

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