With MSN Messenger you can chat online instantly in real time with friends, family and colleagues. It’s faster than e-mail, more discreet than a phone call. Chat using a webcam, send text messages to mobile phones, and express yourself instantly online in real time with new, cool emoticons.

MSN Messenger looks like you! Sign in with your own picture, create your own emoticons, and represent yourself with new, cool backgrounds!

Features

• Works with Windows Live OneCare Family Safety – If you use Family Safety, built-in contact approval helps you know exactly who your kids are talking to. You approve or disapprove each new contact for their Windows Live Messenger, and whether they can use Messenger.
• Talk to more of your friends, including those on Yahoo! – With Windows Live Messenger, you can connect with your Yahoo! Messenger with Voice contacts. It’s as easy as adding their Yahoo! e-mail addresses. Forget needing multiple accounts to talk to all your friends, you’ll be able to see when they’re online and communicate with them from one place.
• PC-to-PC Calling – Speak your mind: Have a high-quality voice conversation using PC-to-PC Calling. Free.
• Even better video conversations – Those old science fiction movies with TV phones? That’s what the new Messenger will give you, only better: live, full-screen (640×480) video.
• Sharing Folders – Drag a file onto a contact’s name. You’ve just created a Sharing Folder. Now you and your contact can get to all the files in the folder any time, even if one of you is offline.
• Text message their phones – See a little mobile icon next to a friend’s name? Just right click to send a text message.
• Your two-way, super-powered address book – With Windows Live Contacts, whenever your contacts update their information, it will also be changed in your Messenger address book(Your Windows Live Hotmail address book will be updated, too).
• Windows Live Alerts – Headlines, sports scores, traffic, or just about anything else you want to keep up with get pop-up notifications of things as they happen.

Other Information

• License: Freeware
• Filename: wlsetup-web.exe
• File size: 991KB (1,014,272 bytes)
• Requirements: Windows XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
• Date added: September 22, 2008
• Author: Microsoft Corporation
• Homepage: messenger.msn.com
• MD5 Checksum: B84D82399451E77E7184E7876296EE28

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