It has everything you already love about Messenger – your contact list, emoticons, and plenty of ways to access to your friends via text, voice and video – plus new ways to connect and share documents with magical ease. The new Windows LiveTM Messenger Beta is the next-generation MSN Messenger and, as always, it is free to download. Please let us know what you think and how we can improve it in upcoming releases. I ultimately fought for the current implementation because I loved both its simplicity and that I don’t have to use my mouse to get extra functionality (and apparently both Mick and Andrew are starting to like it) We discussed having a dropdown with more of our verticals, but decided that we didn’t want to overload the feature right out of the gate. Should the results appear inline or in the browser? What results will people want? We considered adding a search tab underneath or a button on top, but decided that they weren’t discoverable enough. Not only was it two different groups collaborating, but everyone had a different idea of what a shared search was. This was a tough, but fun feature to work on. We include Encarta answers, web results and an ad - all of which will spawn a browser window. If you type something and then hit "Search" (that’s just ) then both you and your croney share the results and see them inline, a shared search.
The third way is a new button right under “Send” that allows you to query MSN Search. There’s a search box on the buddy window and you can right-click on text in the conversation window, both of these allow you to pick from our verticals.
If you download the new IM client you’ll see that we’ve added 3 ways to search the web. Shared Search on MessengerYesterday marks the release of Messenger 7.0 for Windows (and the official launch of Spaces).
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