Yes people, you heard it right for those who didnt know you now know, a few days ago it was annouced that the next instant messenger program will be called Windows Live Messenger (8??) and below are a few screenshots of its over bloatedness (what do you expect the product manager is female and they want every feature going )

As you can see theres still alot of work (chuck it in the bin start again) but it uses the new msn protocol 13 so we should see some improvements to the system (logon times ect), so lets have a look at the contact list first.

looks like msn 7.5 (ewww) however you got this glass effect over your DP's which I quite like! you can now colourize your contact list too, MsgPlus! is totally borked in this version, and theres some nice rollover effects too! - No big changes.

The convo window is nothing to piss your pant over either, 200+ buttons for more crap and "fun" two fuck off buttons for searching msn (copied google) search, and one to send… but does anyone even use the send button? what about hitting Enter

Final verdict - Nothing to be excited about, And i am ment to be in the msg 8 beta too lol ( MSN Messenger 7 to 7.5 Beta Tester)

Now for a update on life:
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Drving lesson yesterday wee so fun did some reversin down a road, my linux cds/dvd come yesterday too so I have been trying them out (fedora, mandriva, SUSE10). Dont get me started on my phone thats really annoyed me lol, ok so I have been told I blog too much so I won't be blogging for another 2 days or so, I got college work to do anyways!!

And finally.

- Tom

Posted by Tom Parker / Blog and Boring and College and Computers and Milestones and Random