Surprise,Surprise! Windows Live Web Messenger will be introducing Video chat into the web client. A close examination of the Windows Live Web Messenger screen shot, shows this:
The circled icon in the top shows a webcam icon, to view the contacts webcam. The bottom circled advertisements, advertises the new Video chat feature in Windows Live Web Messenger.
More information to come about Video Chat!
Stay Tuned!
Now, you wont have to spend hours trying to find that contact you are dying to talk to in your contact list. Similar to the word wheel in Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Web Messenger will introduce easy contact searching using the word wheel. You will be able to search for contacts, by their display name, email address, and much more.
Stay tuned!
Beta is the new passé, and dogfood is where its at. Calendar and now Web Messenger are now both in dogfoods that are running on external urls (you have to be signed up to the internal dogfoods in order to load the products - ie you need to be a Microsoft employee).
Here's the tiny Web Messenger shot from the homepage (with the new Windows Live Wave 2 UI)
Windows Live Web Messenger adds Personal Status Message integration, tabbed conversations (ok so they are stacked vertically in a "conversation workspace") and display picture options, though those are already available from most Wave 2 Windows Live services, such as Spaces
Stay tuned for more information regarding Windows Live Web Messenger!
Source: Various sources, Mess.be
