The link to the latest Messenger Live is listed in the box above after MSN Block Checker. It's 2009 14.0.8117. Just to review the key features:
Talk to your Yahoo! friends:
You can now connect with your Yahoo! friends so you can forget about multiple accounts.
PC-to-PC Calling:
Speak your mind: Have a high-quality voice conversation using PC to PC Calling. Free.
Even better video conversations
Those old science fiction movies with TV phones? That's what the new Messenger will give you, only better: live, fullscreen (640x480) video.
Sharing Folders:
Drag a file onto a contact's name. You've just created a Sharing Folder. Now you and your contact can get to all the files in the folder any time, even if one of you is offline.
Text message their phones:
See a little mobile icon next to a friend's name? Just right click to send a text message.
Your two way, super powered address book
With Windows Live Contacts, whenever your contacts update their information, it will also be changed in your Messenger address book. Instantly. (Your Windows Live Mail address book will be updated, too.)
Windows Live Alerts:
Headlines, sports scores, traffic, or just about anything else you want to keep up with get pop-up notifications of things as they happen.
Windows Live Messenger 2009 14.0.8117 is licensed as Freeware for the Windows operating system / platform.
(0) Comments The Case of the Missing Apps By gene - April 12, 2010
Microsoft has stripped out some non-essential apps from Windows 7 to focus on the core operating system. Missing are Windows Mail, Windows Calendar, Windows Photo Gallery, and Windows Movie Maker.
And where are these apps now? They've been re-branded and moved inside the mega-app Windows Live. You know, the one that includes, among other MS apps, Windows Live Messenger.
How well do these versions work? Judging from the blogs, very well indeed! You can download all or some of the apps if you need any of them. Simply click Windows Live.
(0) Comments Messenger for MAC and More By gene - March 09, 2010
Two news posts this month...
Microsoft To Release Messenger for MAC
Yes there are some MAC users who like Messenger. Unfortunately, the current Messenger for Mac 7 is woefully out of date compared to the PC version. Late in March, however, Microsoft promises a new Messenger (in beta) for MACs that have most of the features we PC users take for granted. Look for audio/visual conferencing, webcam and audio support.
Check Out SkyDrive
One of the coolest and least publicized web apps in the Windows Live galaxy is called SkyDrive. It's a free, 25-gigabyte virtual hard drive on the Internet, accessible from any computer. It can serve as an intermediate parking place for files you want to shuttle from one computer to another. You can also use it for offsite backup of your most important files, or as a handy intermediary for sharing big folders with other people far away.
The key point is that you can pull the SkyDrive onto any computer's screen--Mac, Windows, whatever--at your office, at your home, at your friend's house, so you don't need to carry around a physical disk to transport files.
