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Windows Live Messenger 9.0 private beta leaks out

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On November 28, 2007, 3:43 PM

Earlier this month, Microsoft began rolling out a private beta to about 5,000 testers for an exclusive preview of the upcoming Windows Live Messenger 9, which is scheduled for public release at the end of 2008. Inevitably, the download has been leaked and is now available for download.

This major upgrade over the current Windows Live Messenger 8.5 will enable users to be online in more than one place, meaning you can be connected to Messenger on a mobile device as well as on your desktop PC. Other features include animated display pictures, clickable URLs in personal status messages and a new anti-spam feature called “SPIM.”

Microsoft did warned, however, that the private beta is intended for a very small audience only and if the build gets out too widely and starts causing problems on the service it would have to be shut down. So don’t be surprised if it stops working after a while.

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  1. November 28, 2007 8:30 PM
    canadian said:
    Well, since when is this news? Its a beta, its closed, its going to leak :PAnd to be honest, there isn't much difference in it so far since 8.x there is no real need to upgrade. The multiple locations online thing is kinda useless, since you are only in one spot
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  2. November 28, 2007 11:31 PM
    Julio said:
    I'm not a messenger user, I use Trillian in Windows and Adium in OS X but I can tell you for people switching computers all the time the multiple simultaneous login is very useful (AIM supports it) although I thought this would be more of a protocol/platform limitation rather than client.
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