Windows Live Messenger: Formerly MSN Messenger
Instantly connect to the people who matter the most via text, voice, or video. Even if they’re offline, you can leave a message or send a note.

Choose from a variety of status messages for any occasion. Use Windows Live Contacts to control your personal information who sees it and what they see.

Download Links

Product
Windows Live Messenger (MSN) 2009 Beta 14.0.5027 / 8.5.1302 October 6, 2008, 12:47 GMT
Windows Live Messenger (MSN) 8.5.1302.1018 March 5, 2008
Windows Live Messenger (MSN) 8.5 Beta 2 November 7, 2007
Windows Live Messenger (MSN) 8.1.0178 March 24, 2007

Features

- Works with Windows Live OneCare Family Safety
If you use Family Safety, built-in contact approval helps you know exactly who your kids are talking to. You approve or disapprove each new contact for their Windows Live Messenger, and whether they can use Messenger.

- Talk to more of your friends, including those on Yahoo!
With Windows Live Messenger, you can connect with your Yahoo! Messenger with Voice contacts. It’s as easy as adding their Yahoo! e-mail addresses. Forget needing multiple accounts to talk to all your friends, you’ll be able to see when they’re online and communicate with them from one place.

- 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, full-screen (640×480) 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(Your Windows Live Hotmail 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.

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