What do you think?

Looks very unchanged.

And broken.

Very broken.... Unless No one likes the Inky person xD and no one has a name

Looks exactly the same to me

Hmm, I see quite a few changes.

And the names are missing as the person doesnt want his contact list being shown...

I've hated MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger since the very beginning. Microsoft had it right with Windows Messenger, as in, version 4.

GTalk all the way then?

And yea, its been bugged and made of fail since day 1

Looks pretty much the same with a couple of new features - favourites and groups?

NONE OF YOU HAVE IT SO IM STUCK TALKING TO MYSELF
(http://download.live.com for the latest beta fix)

I mean, its more stable than final versions generally

Looks the same to me.... anybody else notice anything NOTICEABLY different?

The pictures are on the left.

The statuses have changed to just 4 - Available, Busy, Away, Offline and are now represented by colours (Green, Red, Orange, Grey respectively). The green man has also gone, replaced by squares.

Person you are chatting too's status represented by colour around their pic (disappears with cam on, though).

New favourites group that can be configured differently to your other contacts.

Groups that you can talk to by just talking to the group, rather than having to add everyone.

A notifier of changes people ahve made (name, picture, PSM etc) in the main window.

New photo sharing feature.

Sharing folders appear to have gone.

Interface cleaned up a lot (there's a lot less buttons).

Quite a lot more too.

So yeah, there are lots of changes. It seems the image in Si's first post is out of date.

The current version looks like this;


http://download.live.com/messenger

OK now they have made it look a bit nicer... I'll download it later!

Oh yea, from like two months ago, theres been newer versions of everything since then.

I have it right now. It's an improvement!

Bug would you say?

WTF happened there?

Two title bars...
(I removed the text its not a blank screen)

Ohhh, I was being dopey, thought it was a chat window, lol.

Mine does the 2 title bars thing aswell.

Mine keeps using 25% CPU (or 100% of one core)... WTF? Anyone else get this.

Yes it crashes regularly for me using 100% of one core. I have to end the process and start again. Happens randomly.

It's mesenger, it was bound to do that anyway.

Yea, but I've noticed it a lot with this one.

Same here, it locks up a lot more than the current stable.

I haven't noticed a problem on my Win XP 32 laptop though.