MSN Messenger 7.0.0332 BETA released to testers

dwergs
October 28, 2004

Microsoft has released MSN Messenger 7 BETA build 332 to testers on Beta Place today. Top fixes in this version as mentioned in the Beta Program e-mail:

• Contact list spacing issues (used to occur when a contact had a long display name or an emoticon in it);
• Right-clicking Get this emoticon on a Premium (i.e. Blue Mountain) emoticon would crash;
• Spelling correction: “sent” vs. “send” when sending a nudge to an older client;
• Pinned emoticons now shows 60/60;
• Crying face emoticon :’( and disappointed emoticon now appear differently in the emoticon dropdown menu;
• Close and Minimize buttons are hidden only at the smallest width of the main window when in frameless mode.

Additional changes noticed by Mess with MSN Messenger:

• Handwriting seems to be enabled by default;
• The Nudge icon has changed from green to yellow. The sound has become less annoying and ’alarming’;
• The dropdown status icons appear to have changed and the Web Messenger contact list icon has returned;
• The Download Packs icon was replaced with the well-known gift emoticon. The option does not appear at all in regions where the BlueMountain service is not available (eg. Europe).
• Activities and Games pulldown menus now show in all regions.
• The Winks button -although still greyed out and thus unavailable- is slightly different.

Screenshots and more information over at Mess with MSN Messenger.