First
screens first, the sign in screen has been redesigned. If
you tick the Remember Me option, it will show your MSN
Display Picture and automatically fill in your e-mail
address. There are separate options for saving your password
as well, or sign in instanteneously altogether.
Not
much changes in the main window : the Add a Contact has been
replaced at the top of the Contact List (rendering the bottom
"I want to" actions pane obsolete) and the My Space
button is now titled My MSN Space .
Arriving
in the conversation window , the Webcam and
Audio buttons are now renamed to Video & Voice and the
Video button also has a new symbol. A completely new feature
we announced before are the Voice Clips , which enable you
to send voice messages (or whatever you sample, really) by
holding the button (or hold F2) and recording through your
microphone. Yelling your contact's name sounds like a good
alternative to the Nudge button. Obviously, this feature only
works if both contacts own MSN Messenger 7.5 .
Bloat-alert:
just like MSN Display Pictures , conversation
window backgrounds can now be dynamic. While I have yet to
see it in action, I can imagine many an epilepsy seizure caused
by these Dynamic Backgrounds . I don't think anyone was waiting
for this feature, but according to KebecoiS : " the animation
is more pleasant [than Winks], the text color matches it so
you can still see it clearly and it's not just annoying ".
Two Dynamic Backgrounds from Blue Mountain
are included in this BETA. One has a fish swimming , the other
shows world clocks (though according to Mini-Me the times
shown on the clocks are not accurate, screenshot by sinuz
).
Finally,
some bad news for the pre-XP generation. According to XxRebelSeanxX
on the forum, the MSN Messenger 7.5 setup
only supports Windows XP . There's a small
chance that this issue is limited to the BETA.
