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If you’ve been away for a few days you may have not noticed the new Windows Live Messenger 9 beta has been publicly released. Sporting some new features, old features reworked and a new Vista-like interface. To get it all you need to do is head over to http://download.live.com/ and follow the directions. For an overview head to Liveside for an comparative look and for all the features, information from the team itself head over to Windows Live Messenger team’s blog.
It’s certainly a good update in the sense there heading in the right direction. A big selling point is creating your own custom Dynamic Display Pictures which you can use pictures or even webcam video to create them and best of all its free! A few little glitches and bugs it’s back on the track to take back the Instant Messaging market.
And as the initiative keeps chugging along, the donation total now stands at $1,698,090 million spread to the various causes involved. Remember you can be involved by spreading it to your friends via your hotmail and more recently your facebook account via Invite2Messenger which will go step by step on how to help.
You can even create your own free muggin with the I’M message for Windows Live Messenger just by registering yourself to the cause. Lets get it to $2million!
With seemingly little news about the next version of Windows Live Messenger which is still being tested inhouse and a very limited group of testers, I thought we could start listing your ideas about what you would want or like to see or even improved in version 9.
How? Just register at our forums and post the ideas here or even just drop your ideas as a comment on this story. You never know, they see the ideas and may even try implementing or fixing something you may of suggested 
The Windows Live Messenger Library is (WLML) a client-side library for building presence-enabled instant messaging web applications hosted in any domain that site visitors can use to interact with each other and Windows Live Messenger users. WLML is written in C# and compiled into JavaScript using Script#; applications can be written either in C# (with Script#) or JavaScript. WLML 2.0 has been released: it is backward compatible with WLML 1.0 and the version 1.0 API is still available. The new version (documentation) contains the following changes:
Source: Ars Technica
