Here’s a pretty detailed description of what the next build of Windows Live Messenger 9 is going to look like, courtesy of Lonn, a product manager at Windows Live. I especially like the new Hotmail icon in the main window, which tells you how many new emails you have. Saves me the trouble of opening up my Inbox only to find that there are no new emails.
The current build of WLM9 supports animated gifs, so you can have fun with your display pictures. There’s a whole bunch of other pictures to download free of charge. Click on your display picture on the main window > Change your display picture, then click on the Download more pictures link.
If you’re still on an earlier version of WLM and want to give version 9 a try, go to the Windows Live Messenger site This is also where you can download and try other programs such as Windows Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer (I’m using Writer to write this), etc.
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