Microsoft Adds Tabs, Social Stream in Messenger 2010
Microsoft Adds Tabs, Social Stream in Messenger 2010
Posted 12/10/2009 at 2:12pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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Microsoft continues to plug away at Wave 4 updates of Windows Live. And the blogosphere continues to gnaw gristle about what changes these updates might include. Fresh meat has been tossed into the mix by Neowin, which claims to have received screenshots of an updated Messenger showing tabs and social streaming in the interface.
Social streaming is the more interesting of the two new features. Parsing Neowin, it appears that realtime updates of friends' Facebook entires, tweets, and blog posts, if enabled, will be displayed on the left side of the Messenger window. The streaming will be managed through Windows Live.
Tabs are a bit more mundane, but are a feature Messenger users have been asking for, and Microsoft promising. Tabs permit the hosting of several conversations in the same window, making it easier for users to manage.
Neowin notes nothing yet is written in stone, but that these screenshots do offer some useful insight into the direction that Messenger might take in its 2010 incarnation.
Image Credit: Neowin
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Quakindude
December 10, 2009 at 6:40pm
You're damned right!! Microsoft put the definition behind "alienating" when they pulled that shit. I still refuse to use Messenger to this day.
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1337Goose
December 10, 2009 at 2:33pm
Every time WLM gets an update something breaks on the unofficial clients. In other words, Linux users get screwed.
WLM won't run on Linux, even with Wine... and I don't think Microsoft is about to release a Linux version of their messenger. That's Maximum BS.
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gendoikari1
December 10, 2009 at 2:41pm
Besides, Pidgin works nicely, and looks good on Linux (not so much on Windows).
1337Goose
December 10, 2009 at 4:46pm
Pidgin has pretty good desktop integration on Linux, but you miss out on some major features. Groups, and lack of handwriting support are two major ones.
Also, as of the new MSN protocol spec. my display name isn't saved upon exit, which means I need to reset it every time I start pidgin. I tried downloading the source for the newest version and compiling, but to no avail.
It sort of puts me in an awkward situation. I'm not about to change operating systems for WLM, but there's not much else I can do to make the third party alternatives play nice with the MSN spec.
~Goose
gendoikari1
December 10, 2009 at 2:22pm
Messenger Plus Live works fine for this, even though it doesn't have social streaming (which I don't need). And, of course, it's already out.
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