MSN Messenger 7.0.0820 now available for Windows XP

You may be interested in this post from the Windows Live Messenger team:
http://messengersays.spaces.live.com...9E!29966.entry

MSN Messenger 7.0.0820 now available for Windows XP
posted by Anand

We’ve seen feedback from several people that they would like to stay on a
version of MSN Messenger. Given that many of us currently on the Windows Live
Messenger team also worked on MSN Messenger for years, we can appreciate the
sentiment. Based on this, we have a new option we hope you’ll like.

For those of you on XP who are passionate about staying on MSN Messenger, we’ve
now released the new, more secure build of MSN Messenger 7.0 build 0820 for
Windows XP, and we recommend you install and use this build (rather than running
MSN Messenger 7.5 on XP in Windows 2000 compatibility mode as we realize some of
you are doing). If you currently have MSN Messenger 7.5 installed, we recommend
you uninstall it via Add/Remove Programs and install MSN Messenger 7.0.0820 from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...4-9505f47bed45


-steve



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Stephen Boots
MVP Windows Live
Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator

I know change is hard, especially when it comes to a communication system
(MSN Messenger) so widely used all over the world, and you will never please
everyone, we know that. BUT this option is a fantastic contribution by the
Windows Live Team to deliver a stable version 7.0. I just loaded it onto my
laptop running XP and it is working without problems.

I am determined to persist with Live messenger on my Vista laptop though ;-)
That way I get to keep up with all the hard work you and your team are doing
here. And have a reliable standby :-)

BIG thank you for this!

Dennis
UK

"StephenB" wrote:

> You may be interested in this post from the Windows Live Messenger team:
> http://messengersays.spaces.live.com...9E!29966.entry
>
> MSN Messenger 7.0.0820 now available for Windows XP
> posted by Anand
>
> We’ve seen feedback from several people that they would like to stay on a
> version of MSN Messenger. Given that many of us currently on the Windows Live
> Messenger team also worked on MSN Messenger for years, we can appreciate the
> sentiment. Based on this, we have a new option we hope you’ll like.
>
> For those of you on XP who are passionate about staying on MSN Messenger, we’ve
> now released the new, more secure build of MSN Messenger 7.0 build 0820 for
> Windows XP, and we recommend you install and use this build (rather than running
> MSN Messenger 7.5 on XP in Windows 2000 compatibility mode as we realize some of
> you are doing). If you currently have MSN Messenger 7.5 installed, we recommend
> you uninstall it via Add/Remove Programs and install MSN Messenger 7.0.0820 from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...4-9505f47bed45
>
>
> -steve
>
>
>
> --
> Stephen Boots
> MVP Windows Live
> Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
>
>