UI consistency with live

Why does messenger not have a consistent appearance with the rest of the
live family? All the other live programs I've used are using a consistent UI
except live. Is this in the works or is the UI as intended?

What I'd like to see is my color settings saved. So if i log in to messenger
and have a black UI, i want to log in to live mail (desktop and web) and have
a black UI. Photo gallery, black UI, live.com, home.live.com black UI, ANY
live program a black UI.

if a user doesnt want this, they can change it in their account page
(account.live.com).

Make this option defalut. many want this...

"mike" wrote:

> Why does messenger not have a consistent appearance with the rest of the
> live family? All the other live programs I've used are using a consistent UI
> except live. Is this in the works or is the UI as intended?
>
>

Greetings Mike,

It's interesting that Messenger gets a gradient effect and the others doesn't isn't it?

I think you can get away with the gradients in Messenger since conversation windows and the
contact list aren't generally maximized. It is a bit interesting the toolbar in Messenger
conversation windows are devoid of any text too.

I wouldn't expect any changes at this point, Messenger even lost its 'beta' moniker in the
application itself.

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"mike" <> wrote in message
news5312C82-43BB-4B1F-A55C-...
> Why does messenger not have a consistent appearance with the rest of the live family? All
> the other live programs I've used are using a consistent UI except live. Is this in the
> works or is the UI as intended?

The question is what verson is mike using? 8.1 or the 8.5 beta. 8.5 looks
much nicer, but i cant use it since theres no 64 bit support. Though I did
use beta 1 and liked it....

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings Mike,
>
> It's interesting that Messenger gets a gradient effect and the others doesn't isn't it?
>
> I think you can get away with the gradients in Messenger since conversation windows and the
> contact list aren't generally maximized. It is a bit interesting the toolbar in Messenger
> conversation windows are devoid of any text too.
>
> I wouldn't expect any changes at this point, Messenger even lost its 'beta' moniker in the
> application itself.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
>
> "mike" <> wrote in message
> news5312C82-43BB-4B1F-A55C-...
> > Why does messenger not have a consistent appearance with the rest of the live family? All
> > the other live programs I've used are using a consistent UI except live. Is this in the
> > works or is the UI as intended?
>
>