Windows Live Beta's

**moneoa** · February 13th, 2006, 01:58 PM

Anyone else sign on board for testing these services?
I am in the live mail beta, hotmail for most tasks and in regards to layout has turned into Outlook.
I have to say I do like it when presented but I am not sure if the changes go deeper than cosmetic
(I.e is it just hotmail with a new gui)

I am also a part of Messenger live Beta (ie MSN 8.0)

.........well by default it is bright orange....thats not so cool.
However you can modify color, look and feel of the new msn even more so than 7.5 to get your own look to it.
Online status indicators are a bit buggered as they only have dark green for online contacts and light green for everything else (busy, away ect.) they dont actually show anything other than the icon from the main window so you only really know what someones status is when you open a chat window with them.

Given it is beta and they are still working on it.

One noticeable change is you can set up shared folders with individual contacts and drag
and drop files to share with said contact regardless if the person who put it in there is online or not.

This also tells me though that anything dragged to this folder is stored on MSN servers (hence available offline) so it is interesting to me how they will deal with the OBVIOUS uses of such a folder, I think perhaps stringent file sizes will be one method.

So tell us if you are on these betas and if you think MS is actually doing something other than regurgitating code with gui and cosmetic changes.

**Krell** · February 13th, 2006, 02:10 PM

Uhh whats an "intensive purpose" ?

is that the same as a serious mission?

FYI - it is more than a GUI revamp.

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**moneoa** · February 13th, 2006, 02:21 PM

lol I corrected the grammar.

Was not sure if it was more than a gui revamp in mail live, still get spam and I still lose mail being sent to me.
That's what made me question.