Beta or Worse?

There is a new MSN Windows Live Messenger beta and i decided to give it a shot. I'll include some screenshots below but the long story short, compact view is a slightly flashier looking version of what you already have and full view more than doubles the window size to allow full sized news stories to be displayed. One new thing however is the ability to connect to Facebook and Myspace right from messenger. Compact view allows you to see Facebook Friends and quickly jump to their photo's, profile and a list of their status updates, while full view can show a full stylised view of your Facebook/Myspace home page. You can also now post updates to Facebook/Myspace directly from the messenger window and have it set so any update made on Facebook/Myspace automatically becomes your personal message on Messenger. My impressions... Some Facebook and Myspace regulars will love it, but for everyone else, it's just more crap and polish you didn't need. Anyone wanting to download the beta (designed for Windows Vista and Windows 7) can download it here.

Sorry about all the blank spaces... figured my friends wouldn't want their email address's posted publicly.

Full View

Compact View