Get the Windows Live Messenger Public Beta

Windows Live Messenger Beta is the next-generation MSN Messenger and is now open to the public. Previously Windows Live Messenger 8 Invites were needed to test this instant messenger service.

What you will be able to do with it
• Send all your familiar winks and emoticons, plus some cool new ones
• Have real-time text, video and voice conversations*
• Call your friends’ mobile or land-line telephones by signing up with Verizon to make affordable domestic and international calls
• Easily share documents of all kinds with Sharing Folders
• Make free PC-to-PC calls with other Messenger users

Download Squad says “The biggest new features are Sharing Folders, the fruits of Microsoft’s acquistion of FolderShare, which aims to simplify sharing photos and files with your contacts, and Windows Live Call, a pre-paid service that lets you call regular phones, a la SkypeOut, via Verizon.” Download the Windows Live Messenger Beta and get a new perspective in Instant messaging, PC calls and Folder Sharing.