Windows Live Messenger Begins Beta

This week, the Windows Live Messenger beta begins. Like it was with the Gmail beta, only a handful of users have been given an invite to test the new messenger program. It won’t be until later this month that those users will be given invites to hand out to others. "…this new version has a fresh new look and feel, and lets you do things you’ve never done with Messenger before," said Microsoft in an email to beta testers. Some of the new features in Windows Live Messenger include international PC-to-telephone calls and online drop boxes called "Sharing Folders" for sending files to users that actually store the data on a Microsoft server. One of the new features in Windows Live Messenger is international PC-to-telephone calls. Another new feature are online drop boxes called "Sharing Folders" for sending files to other users. These files are actually stored on a Microsoft server. The new messenger will only be available to Windows XP.