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JoelJ
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 21:03
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Weird story, so I get an email in one of my 2 hotmail accounts (one for MSN and garbage, and another for school and more "professional" stuff ) with the news updates to all the Windows Live everything they have going on, and their online security thing was interesting, so I subscribed to the Office LIVE Beta newsletter using my OTHER hotmail account. and in there was this message, along with a hundred other messages from MS (thank you for registering Visual studio...):

From : Windows Live Messenger Team <msnbetax@microsoft.com>
Sent : Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:44 PM
To : <---------------->
Subject : Join the Windows Live Messenger Beta

Hello!

We'd like you to be among the first to try a new beta version of Messenger.

If you use MSN® Messenger now, we think you're really going to enjoy Windows LiveTM Messenger. It's as fun and reliable as the Messenger you already know, and you won't lose your contact list or any other personal information when you try this new version.

blah blah blah

so I thought "cool, they're letting people use the new beta.

so I install and try to log in using my joelthebod@hotmail.com account, all to no avail, says that account can't login. so I tried the account they emailed that too, and BAM , it works! odd.

So i tried to find a link that i might've clicked to let me try this out. so I googled it, and everyone else has to use HACKS and stuff to log into the new version of MSN.

so now i'm too the point where I think i was "randomly" selected to use the new version of MSN. Why would they choose me? and why THAT account? is it because i've registered so many Visual Studio 2005 thingies?

anywho, MSN8 rocks, they've done some cool stuff with file sharing, shame no one else uses it

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PowerSoft
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 21:05 Edited at: 11th Jan 2006 21:08
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Yea I use it:
rjs.powersoft@gmail.com

Had it for quite a while now.


[edit]
BTW to use your other account when you get the 'Invites' send one to your account you want to use...

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Dot Merix
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 21:53
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Yeah, i've been using it for awhile now myself aswell.. You'll have to send an invite and sign up for each account you want to be able to log into messenger with.. I've already sent out about 10 invites to friends.


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 22:00
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Send me one please

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JoelJ
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 22:10
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how do you invite?

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PowerSoft
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 22:24
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Wait till the invites come into your 'box'

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RalphY
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 22:36 Edited at: 11th Jan 2006 22:41
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Yup, I use it too. Have to say the new UI they got going is hidious though, plus the contacts list is way to small compared to the size of the form - I have to maximize the window just to see who's online and I always liked having it run in a small window to the side.

The other new features are good though.

[Edit] Sent you an invite Darkbasic MAD.
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Dot Merix
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 23:07
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I dont like how it no longer tells you the email of the person when you roll the mouse over their msn screen names.

6.2 was my favorite, and it worked with my webcam.. ever since the 7.0+ series came out my webcam chugs the whole computer almost to a stop before the webcam shuts itself down.. really weird..

I think they changed drivers though and that's why, but i'm not completely sure.. I think instead of using the native drivers to the webcam, tney're using some sort of direct x input.. Can anyone confirm this? If not, i'll still go with that assumption, heh.


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David T
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Posted: 11th Jan 2006 23:32
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RalphY - if you have any spare, would you mind sending an invite my way? My msn address is private but I can email it to you (my address is below).

Thanks alot!

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RalphY
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 00:02
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@David T - sent you an email
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dark coder
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 03:19
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so how many ads does this one have dotted around it? maybe the msn news isnt disableable now? perhaps under ach chat window they now add an image ad , imo all these new versions of msn just have more rounder edges more childishfeatures adn ads, like who the hell wants to use winks?? thats the most useless feature ever...

Halowed are the ori.
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John Y
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 09:30
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The new msn has been out on the Mac quite a while now, I wonder why they did that?


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Lukas W
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cool a new version of msn.

Quote: "Software Only $9.95/mo or $79.95/yr"

yay i cant wait to pay 10 bucks to chat with people


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Dave J
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 11:34
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This sounds suspiciously like they stole Gmail's advertising tactic. I guess it's no surprise though, it did work a charm.


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OSX Using Happy Dude
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If its not free, then I have no need for it...

Blog:http://spaces.msn.com/members/BouncyBrick/
Web Site:http://www.nicholaskingsley.co.uk
Smoke me a computer chip, I'll be baking breakfast.
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dab
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 15:28
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Same Here. It's not my life to chat, so I'm not paying for something that I'm not going to use frequently.

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 16:57
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another m$ con but honestly who pays for msn

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/csimon/spain03/days2_3.htm << where i went for my holiday or www.portaventura.es
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blanky
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 17:08
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Joel.. Might not somebody have invited *you* in the first place?

Support the AAANJL by doing nothing! Visit teh site below..
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JoelJ
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 17:09
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when they start charging, i will stop using! yay

and be careful, when I first googled for this new beta, trying to figure out how I got it, i read that there are viruses posing as this new version

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 17:18
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there's always a catch

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Jeku
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 17:53
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Well if you download it from a Microsoft site, then it's not a virus

Didn't you look to see what site you were downloading the installer from!?


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 17:59 Edited at: 12th Jan 2006 18:01
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lol someone might have made a fake e-mail of it and sent you it

@RalphY i'll download it thanks

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soapyfish
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 18:07
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Quote: "another m$ con"

@DarkBasic MAD, Why is it a con?

*Attempts to think of witty and original signature*
*Fails*
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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 18:39
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they charge for the full thing the beta isn't a con


@RalphY

Where's the invite button?

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Ian T
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darknessmouse@hotmail.com <-- I'd appreciate one


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Dot Merix
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 19:43
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Sent you one Iant.


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 19:50
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How do you send them?

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Ian T
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Thanks for the invite.

I have to say I'm disgusted with msnm 8 though.

Never mind the default puke-on-plaster color scheme or the annoying mouse-over setting I disabled; what really pisses me off is that the window now has to be two times larger to display all my online contacts right now without scrolling. The ugly, bigass windows live logo and bizarrely large video/ad panel at the bottom are real space hogs. Which will be removed in due time as soon as the next messpatch comes out, but still, that pisses me off.

The new windows are just too BIG, as well. The plush windows XP style was one thing, but this is like they're trying to simulate multiple layers of plastic stacked on top of one another. The colors also clash horribly - looking at a conversation window, there's the silver of the window background, and then the wallpaper, and then the ligher colors and whites of the windows on top of the wallpaper, and then the off-white information bar if said buddy is away, and then blue AND green buttons and the sorted call/activities/games/backgrounds/whatever buttons that nobody uses and just waste space in the window. It's a f'kin mess is what it is.

I genuinely liked MSN 7 after proper hacking because it combined a nice color scheme with good looks and minimalism rather well, but, as much as I never thought I'd say this, AIM Triton beats the living crap out of MSN 8. Hell, you don't even have to hack it to be able to remove all the tabs and extra buttons and other junk from the windows.


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JoelJ
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 21:53
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Quote: "Didn't you look to see what site you were downloading the installer from!?
"

yeah, i downloaded it from the MS site in the email, , went thru all the verification garbage.
I was just searching to see if i can get it for my other account and noticed the virus stuff

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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There's no viruses

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JoelJ
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I'm hoping they'll let me use an invite soon, first person i'm inviting is my other account

do you wait for them to allow you to invite or what?

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Sorry, you don't have any invitations left for Windows Live Messenger beta.
We'll let you know when you have more.


No idea

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JoelJ
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 22:13 Edited at: 12th Jan 2006 22:16
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where did you find that?

oh, in the HELP menu

when I click it, it takes me to the login page, and i type in my password, then it says
Quote: "Hmm, I think you have a bad URL. Can you go back and check it and try again? "


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Dot Merix
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Joel, what's your other account? i'll just send you an invite.


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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how did you get that? shame no one adds me i had to add all 72 contacts to my msn anyone feel free to add me

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Eric T
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Can someone invite my tomassetti13-@-hotmail account? I never got any invites on the one account I had, so last night to use this one i tried a crack thing for it (haha, yeah, i know, but i wanted to try it with an account that had people), but it blew with the crack.

Any help appreciated.

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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cracking the app is impossible to secure

o can anyone help please i long on a get an error messenger 8 has encountered an error and needs to close

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Hello guys,

This new MSN 8 Sounds great rom what I hear of.

However I also have no invite for it, which I find a bt upsetting.

However if possible, if you could spare the few minutes and send me an invite to gameserveruk@tiscali.co.uk I would really apperciate it!
Many Thanks.

Andrew

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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 23:47 Edited at: 12th Jan 2006 23:49
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Quote: "cracking the app is impossible to secure"


Actually, the crack worked, and quite well it did. What it did (from what I understand) was sent you through a proxy and changes your data to make the MSN server think your logging in from a 7.5 version of messenger. Atleast thats what I gathered from it.

The problems with it were the fact that it always had to be running, and that it was expectedly slow, being a proxy crack and all. That and the fact that I don't feel too good having to run through a proxy, not the safest way to do things.

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Dot Merix
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Sent you one Eric, also sent one to you XpProUser :p


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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Doh i just got some invites for it

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PowerSoft
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Who wants it.... Me on 8

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I'll have one please.

goodboys_dog3[at]hotmial[dot]com

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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it rules 8.0 i sent 5 invites in 10 minutes rofl

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You seem like nice guys. Do you have an invite in spare for little me?

frederikh7[removeTHIS]@hotmail.com


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JoelJ
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the thing I'm most excited about using is the File sharing... looks like it's actually going to WORK now

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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file sharing already works

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PowerSoft
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klu007 and other guy done you one.

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Hey thanks


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JoelJ
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Quote: "file sharing already works "

yeah, if you're lucky...

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