{"id":405,"date":"2006-02-10T22:57:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T22:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/windows-live-messenger-800562-released-to-testers\/"},"modified":"2006-03-22T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T18:09:18","slug":"windows-live-messenger-800562-released-to-testers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/windows-live-messenger-800562-released-to-testers\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0562 released to testers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s something I don&#8217;t intend on giving that up by being stupid and breaking Microsoft&#8217;s agreement policy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello Managed Beta Testers!<\/p>\n<p>Beta Refresh Now Available!<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/\">http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/<\/a>. You are the FIRST to get this build and we are primed and ready to receive your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>In this release you will find many changes that were a result of your feedback! Some of what you will see is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New UI design<\/li>\n<li>New contact list design (no more hover behavior)<\/li>\n<li>A return of the old status icons<\/li>\n<li>A Sharing Folders status and progress bar<\/li>\n<li>The Sharing Folders activity log is now in a separate window<\/li>\n<li>New Voice platform<\/li>\n<li>Improved reliability<\/li>\n<li>Improved stability<\/li>\n<li>Improved performance<\/li>\n<li>Improved login performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Testing!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/02\/windowslivemessenger.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us\" alt=\"Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/02\/windowslivemessenger_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/windows-live-messenger-800562-released-to-testers\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0562 released to testers&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}