Posted by djpowelly
Well?
Posted by Merovingian
a mate of mine has a version of MSN 7, but it's still in developement status, and it's only available in english. haven't tried it though.. and I also can't find any place to DL it..
Posted by mixin
http://www.mess.be have mirrors listed for the msn7 beta. I personally can't see enough changes in it to justify it being version 7, and think it should be 6.3
Posted by djpowelly
I think its pretty good, @MixiN, i know
Posted by Sammy_boy
So what are the changes between the current release and V.7?
Posted by masseur
I've never seen the point in MSN messenger when windows messenger does all I need. I hate loading extra apps and avoid it when neccessary.
the only thing making me think of getting msn messenger now is that since XP SP2 it no longer shows me how many new hotmail messages I have and the add on no longer works. Indeed it now only thinks my inbox is my outlook box
So, it might be worth checking out this latest version of MSN messenger
Posted by mixin
If you are gonna upgrade from windows messenger, i'd suggest the official release of 6.2 instead of this beta. Because it still does have a lot of bugs in it.
Main differences are the all new annoying nudge feature that shakes the window around like crazy and makes a ring ring noise so you can grab the attention of the person who you are talking to, and a new winks thing. That are flash animations that fill the chat screen making it hard to see what convo is going on for about 15seconds
Posted by masseur
you're probably right. I don't like betas on my main pc either.
I've got the latest yahoo messenger and that has the buzzer/shaker thing which I quite like as it scares the .... out of my wife when I do that!
Posted by mixin
Starts huting your eyes after a 5minute nudge match
You can now sign in as Away /Busy/Offline now aswell
Posted by govigov
@ masseur..
u can disable that
go to main messenger window >> messenger >> prefernces...
sounds and alerts and messages option ought to do the trick....
in messages, 'when i recieve a new message' should be in 'minimise to taskbar' to avoid that shaking.. the bar just turns orange after that...
(p.s it is not everyday i get to do this...)
Posted by djpowelly
Oi a moderator has gone off topic on my thread
EDIT: Sorry @mass, i did it in a joking mannor, but that didnt seem clear did it
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Posted by masseur
oi! no he didn't!
in summary, he was discussing how he never saw the need for MSN messenger but was considering giving this beta a try (on topic conversation) but accepted a suggestion to not take the beta but to take the latest official version
relevant comments stating some differences between that and v7 (your thread topic) were then mentioned followed by a passing comment of how one of those different features was already being used for fun by me in another messenger product
phew! I think I got out of that one
oh well... please do continue
Posted by djpowelly
Well sorry chap
Posted by Vlammetje
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You're not supposed to follow the screen with your eyes!
*nudge*
i like V7 for the nudges... they're quite usefull for me because I am using a (self-amended
) windows skin which does not show which MSN window is activated.... so people nudge a lot when I don't respond imediately 
In 4 days it has only crashd once on me, when loading it the first time.... so I'm not terribly dissatisfied.
The winks are rather useless though
and very annoying when the convo continues behind them 
Apart from that it seems very much the same?
I like how it displays the last used smilies (yes I'm a smilie freak
)
Posted by djpowelly
Its good init @Vlam
Posted by Lynx69
Any screenshots of msn 7?
Posted by djpowelly
www.mess.be might have some
Posted by Vlammetje
I did one for you though
Posted by djpowelly
I though the wnks were 'dodgy'
Posted by Vlammetje
Seems there might be some trouble though
Friend of mine got this:
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Yesterday, The Messenger team has implemented a CVR update that will force all existing MSN Messenger V7.0 users to downgrade to V6.2. Anyone running MSN Messenger V7.0 build 0205 needs to downgrade. If you do not downgrade, you will be unable to sign into the Messenger service. We're unsure whether this will effect other builds. |
Posted by Ayush
@Vlammetje is that your childhood photo?
v. cUTE!
Posted by Vlammetje
Posted by vinnieza
I was using it, till i had to downgrade due to that thing vlamm mentioned
. I think they did it as the winks had a security vunrubility?
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As you probably know now already, Microsoft has blocked the leaked beta of MSN Messenger 7 from being used, because we found a way to exploit its Winks feature and make it do awful things to one's computer system. |
However they have found a work around, if you want to risk it
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Posted by Vlammetje
well i risked it and nothing happened
meanwhile there is a new beta out, version 7.0.0225, without the winks function. Made a new screeny for those interested... not how the winks feature is greyed out but not actually removed.......
Least the nudges work
Posted by rrojas260
I like the new features but its full of bugs, i cant start games, download packs and some problems starting audio conversations.
Posted by Jim
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That's why it's beta ! I really like msn 7, I hope they will introduce new things before final, maybe they will finally merge 3degrees and msn ....