Me and half the blogging world it seems has invitations to download and check out Windows Live Messenger Beta. Here is the 411 about it... If you would like an invite, drop a comment on this post. I have 5. Cheers!
UPDATE 1/19/06 - I am out of invites.
Windows Live™ Messenger beta
See. Hear. Share. Instantly.
What it is
Windows Live Messenger will be the next-generation MSN Messenger. It will have everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video—plus new ways to connect and share documents with almost magical ease. As always, it will be free to download Messenger and use most of its features.
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 for MCI Web Calling 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