Software review - Windows Live Messenger 14.0.8117.0416
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Windows Live Messenger is the successor to MSN Messenger 7.x, Microsoft's highly successful instant messaging (IM) solution. If you're familiar with MSN Messenger--and hundreds of millions of consumers, myself included, use the application every single day--than you'll feel right at home with the new version. That is, you get all the cool stuff from Messenger 7--including the borderless windows, Contact Cards, customization features, content tabs, integrated Web search, and other features--along with a bunch of new features, which we'll discuss below.
Main Messenger window improvements
Visually, Windows Live Messenger is cleaner and more attractive than its predecessor and is designed to resemble the Windows Live look and feel. (Microsoft notes that the UI could change before the final release; in the several months that I've been testing the product, it's gone under at least two major UI changes.) (Figure). That is, it features sharp lines with few curves, tight and almost Spartan design, and subtle coloration.
The Messenger main window adds a quick link to Sharing Folders near the top of the window (see below for details about this feature) and loses the MSN Today link, which is just fine with me. There's also a nice paint bucket icon that lets you customize the color scheme quickly and easily (Figure).
Below the top section is a new section devoted to inline searching of contacts and phone numbers. This search box features the word-wheel functionality MSN first revealed in its Desktop Search tool (see my review), which you might think of as "find as you type": The search results list, which temporarily takes the place of the normal contacts list, is narrowed down, literally, as you type. What's interesting here is that this feature searches both your local Messenger contacts list as well as your Hotmail-based contacts online (Figure).
Next to the search box are handy buttons for adding a new contact and managing your contacts (mostly via sorting and grouping), which makes these tasks much easier. Previously, you'd have to know how to activate the menu, which can hidden as with the prior version. On that note, Microsoft has also added a new window button next to the Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons. Dubbed Show Menu, this button lets you access the application's menu system via a single pull-down menu, similar to how it works in Windows Media Player 10 and 11 (Figure).
Below the search box is the tab set and contacts list you know from previous versions. As a matter of design, the contacts list has been cleaned up a lot and made more compact, and thus easier on the eyes. The differences are very subtle. For example, in Messenger 7, the expand and contract buttons that accompanied contact groups were large and square, but now they're smaller, lighter, and are angle brackets. Offline contacts are now simply grayed out and don't include "(Offline)" text; likewise, mobile contacts are identified by a mobile phone icon rather than "(Mobile)" text. Personalized messages are now displayed in gray text rather than black.
Because of the subtler new color schemes, the tab list doesn't seem as visually jarring either. The list of default tabs has been altered somewhat as well: Now you see Contacts, MSN Video, Make Your Own Messenger, Q6, eBay, Rhapsody, MSN Dating & Personals, CNBC, Xbox and Xbox Live, MSN Games, Alerts, and FOX Sports. You can, of course, customize this list via the Tab Options dialog, or simply choose to hide the tabs if you don't use them.
Below the contacts list is an area that alternates between advertisements and links to videos supplied by MSN video. Unfortunately, this area often animates as it moves between ads, which I find annoying. In fact, I'd pay for a subscription version of Messenger if it would let me turn off this pane.
The Web search box has been moved below this pane to the bottom of the window. Curiously, when you search the Web, your results are returned by MSN Search and not Windows Live Search, but I suspect that will change by the time the final Windows Live Messenger version is released.
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