{"id":626,"date":"2006-05-09T08:18:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T07:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/windows-live-messenger-8-beta-available-as-public-download\/"},"modified":"2006-06-03T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T13:21:33","slug":"windows-live-messenger-8-beta-available-as-public-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/windows-live-messenger-8-beta-available-as-public-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Messenger 8 Beta available as public download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today announced that the new Windows Live Messenger Beta is now available broadly to the public for download at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.live.com\/\">Windows Live Ideas Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But hasn&#8217;t it already been available as a public download for some while now, well yes and no because the download was public but you still needed an invite but now you don&#8217;t need an invite to try it out, just download and play!<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2006\/may06\/05-08WLMessengerOpenPR.mspx\">Microsoft Press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today announced that the new Windows Live Messenger Beta is now available broadly to the public for download at the Windows Live Ideas Web site. But hasn&#8217;t it already been available as a public download for some while now, well yes and no because the download was public but you still needed an invite but now you don&#8217;t need<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/windows-live-messenger-8-beta-available-as-public-download\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Live Messenger 8 Beta available as public download&#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-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}