Microsft Releases Windows Live Messenger Beta 1

Microsoft have released beta 1 of it’s Windows Live Messenger, the future replacement of the highly successful MSN Messenger software. Microsft recently announced a partnership with MCI to offer VoIP phone calls through a future version of MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Details on the beta are scattered, but certain features have been revealed in a beta invitation published on a MSN fan site.

Windows Live Messenger “has a fresh new look and feel, and lets you do things you’ve never done with Messenger before, like: Make domestic and international PC-to-telephone calls at incredibly low rates (you’ll need to sign up with a Microsoft Partner, but you can do this in seconds, right in the Messenger interface.), drop documents into special folders that you and your contact can access even when one of you is off-line.”