WLM

Windows Live Messenger is a popular instant messaging software. It helps you to get connected to your friends, near and dear ones just by clicking a mouse. You can use text, video and voice to communicate with other people. You can also customize your personal informations and can make yourself visible only to those you wish to communicate with. Invisible mode helps you to hide your identity. You can easily share your files, folders, photographs and personal data with others. You just need to drag and drop the files into a shared folder. Files on any size can be transferred by WLM. Emoicons are also available.

The latest version of Windows Live Messenger or WLM is 8.5. It was released on November 6, 2007. The download size of Windows Live Messenger is between 14.8 MB – 46.8 MB. The download size of Windows Media Messenger depends on the chosen features. The file name is Install_Messenger.exe. The estimated time limit is nearly 1 hour 15 mins if the download speed of the Internet is 56 KB per second. To download Windows Live Messenger you need to have the following configuration on your system – 128 Mb of RAM is required. However, 256 MB of Ram is highly recommended. Up to 50 MB of hard disk space is required to install Windows Live Messenger and more or less 15 MB is required to run the program.

The first Beta of 8.0 version of Windows Messenger Live was released on 13th December in the year 2005. Some basic features of Beta 1 are :

• Modification of the contact list is done. Contact details pop up in a yellow colored box.
• Offline message facility introduced. The offlines will reach your acquintance and will show the messages when that person will be sign in by his/her login id.
• It also gives the opportunity to change the color of the windows. The default color is orange

Beta 2 or the second Beta of WLM was released on 26th February in the year 2006. It is an improved version of Beta 1. Some primary features of Beta 2 are :

• Transfer of single files was introduced again.
• The option of “Add A Contact” is enhanced.
• The color themes are improved.

Beta 3 was released on May 2, 2006. Few vital features of the third Beta is as follows :

• Phone calling option from PC is introduced.
• New icons were added.
• A new window, Windows Live Today, is introduced.
• The messenger sound can be customized or can be switched off.

Next follows the various 8.1 versions and the latest is the 8.5 version. Microsoft is working on developing Version 9 of WML.