Great news for us Managed Beta Testers or Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0562 exclusively to us, all non-managed beta testers like the people who got invited by a friend and do not have the Windows Live Messenger Beta on connect will have to wait, as we have instruct instructions from Microsoft not to leak this beta, not that I have done before or intend to do so in the future because I respect my position as a beta tester and feel very privileged to beta test Microsoft products before others do so and that’s something I don’t intend on giving that up by being stupid and breaking Microsoft’s agreement policy.

Hello Managed Beta Testers!

Beta Refresh Now Available!

We are pleased to announce that we are releasing an early version of the beta refresh exclusively to the managed beta testers! Build 0562 is now available on http://connect.microsoft.com/. You are the FIRST to get this build and we are primed and ready to receive your feedback.

In this release you will find many changes that were a result of your feedback! Some of what you will see is:

• New UI design
• New contact list design (no more hover behavior)
• A return of the old status icons
• A Sharing Folders status and progress bar
• The Sharing Folders activity log is now in a separate window
• New Voice platform
• Improved reliability
• Improved stability
• Improved performance
• Improved login performance

Happy Testing!