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Messenger for Mac 8 does not use the modern emoticons introduced in Windows Live Wave 3.

You wonder why no emoticons are showing up in chats with your friends? Here’s a solution.

Messenger 2010 will get a new set of emoticons. You don’t want to wait until Windows Live 2010 (Wave 4) is released? There is a way how you can use the new emoticons right now.

I thought it was about time to let you know what I am currently working on. While you can find the complete list at the Projects page, here is a summary of the most interesting bits.
MPLCode
A Messenger Plus! script for sending/receiving programming codes formatted instead of plain-text.
WLMStatus
Allows to display your current Messenger status on [...]

If you are using Internet Explorer 8 and see the following note when trying to add emoticons from Windows Live Gallery to Messenger: “This feature is only available in Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher.”, try this tip to get the import working again.

In Internet Explorer, click Tools, then Compatibility view settings.
Check the checkbox Include updated [...]

Willkommen zu einem neuen Interview in der Sommerausgabe der Serie „Windows Live und du“! Heute habe ich einen besonderen Gast eingeladen, um mit ihm über seinen persönlichen Bezug zu Windows Live zu sprechen: heißen wir Angus Logan willkommen, Senior Technischer Produktleiter für Live-Dienste bei Microsoft.
mynetx: Angus, ich freue mich, mit dir über Windows Live [...]

After a longer break, the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You” is finally back. Today I will be talking with Lance Manasse, who lives in the United Kingdom and is also known by his nickname “Salem”.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved [...]

Nowadays, displays offer a rich variety of colors, mostly 32-bit, allowing a multitude of 4,294,967,296 different colors—more than 4 billion! Graphic artists tend to use more and more of these possibilities. Messenger is one of them, especially in version 2009, also known as Wave 3. But if you have a display that [...]

Windows Live Hotmail is great: it’s fast, reliable and doesn’t require me to install any client application but a browser. But there are also things in Hotmail that annoy me.
Marking mail as junk
The Junk filters in Hotmail are very good, as they filter most unsolicited e-mail I receive. However, some e-mail gets delivered [...]

This is the first interview in the Windows Live and You summer edition. I’m sure that my conversation with Frans-Willem Hardijzer, who developed the Messenger add-on StuffPlug, and is also known as “The Blasphemer”, will be especially interesting for you.
mynetx: I find it great that you got some minutes to talk with me about [...]