Shocked at ‘inspiration’ on MSN Beta 9 from Lotus Sametime
MSN tray icon similar to Lotus Sametime
When I upgraded to Microsoft’s Live Messenger 9 Beta 3 last week, I was intrigued to see the resemblence between the status icons in the system tray from Sametime and Live Messenger 9. Notice on the image capture above –how the green bar is similar? Away sign is same as well. Interesting?
Does this mean that there is a universal IM standard coming soon from the big players or just that Live Messenger is being targeted at Enterprise customers as well (along with Microsoft’s Corp Messenger offering) –since Sametime rocks the Enterprise messaging sector. Or just that they are copying whats good?
Thoughts? Is new Jabber platform going to implement these standards on the UI front?
Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta –
Microsoft has just launched a new version of Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta (14.0.5027.908) also known as Windows Live Messenger version 2009 aka Windows Live Messenger 9. WLM, right now, is in beta stage and can be downloaded from download.live.com/messenger
You can also grab the patch from A-Patch.org to get rid of the ads and other custom options. So far, from my review, it is sleeker and works fast here on my desktop.
Since the new version came out today on the 18th, there is no Apatch for it available yet.
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