Messenger 9.0 Beta to close by end of month

Mess.be: Today we, and probably everyone else who is an official BETA tester for the 9.0 client, has received an e-mail from Microsoft about the recent BETA program. According to the e-mail, over 1000 bugs and suggestions have been posted, and well over 5000 messages on the newsgroups! The e-mail continues to explain the long (unusual) silence over the past few months:

“For the past several months we’ve been gathering feedback from not only you, but also from past beta testers’ comments, other external Windows Live Messenger customers, and Microsoft employees. We’ve compiled a thorough list of feedback, and it’s now time to shift our focus to building the new version of Windows Live Messenger. Therefore, on June 24, we will close the official beta testing program.”.

The Messenger team looks dedicated to taking a look at all the bugs and suggestions which have been posted so far, promising to have process them all by the end of the week.

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Yahoo’s latest Messenger beta goes its own way

It’s clearly not a button-down, businesslike IM client: Having experimented with a special Vista version that apparently didn’t go over well, Yahoo now is adding personalized polish to its latest free personal messenger, still in beta.