Windows Live Messenger
December 14th, 2005
The Messenger Says blog (official Microsoft blog run by people who build Messenger) has a feature list for Windows Live Messenger Beta. There is a detailed description of each of the new features and screenshots so there’s no point of repeating it here.
"Word Wheeling" sounds like a really useful feature to find people. I currently use Messenger Plus’ rename contact feature so I can work out who is who even with their esoteric ever-changing nicknames. Messenger Plus works quite well but instead of contacts being ordered by nickname, they are ordered by e-mail address which makes people a little harder to find. Windows Live Messenger will allow you to rename people. One less reason to use Messenger Plus!
Windows Live Messenger also allows you to show timestamps in front of messages. I really like this feature in Messenger Plus! and I had it enabled up until the upgrade to MSN Messenger 7.5 when it suddenly decided to stop working. Ahem, one less reason to use Messenger Plus!
The new design also looks good although I’m not sure about the orange. Red and Purple looks hip 
File Sharing is also good and there is a feature allowing you to synchronise your files. If two people make changes at the same time, there will be a conflict.
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I like the look of this, and it now has some features I might actually use.
I personally like the design, however, almost everything i’m seeing from MS breaks their own Vista UI guidelines, I happen to love the Vista look, so I really want to see Messenger or Office use it.