MSN Messenger 8
Windows Live Messenger - Connect and share instantly on the world’s most popular IM network

Ta da! It’s the next-generation MSN Messenger. Along with everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emoticons, instant access to your friends—there are brilliant new ways to connect and share your photos (and other stuff). As always, Windows Live Messenger is free to download Messenger and use most of its features.

Call their phones. Call their PCs.
Call your friends' mobile or landline phones. It's affordable, both within the US and internationally. And calling someone's PC is always free.

See them on the screen
Show and tell: Grab a webcam and start a video conversation within minutes.

Share stuff
Set up a Sharing Folder with a friend. Drop in photos and other stuff, as many as your computer can handle. See your Sharing Folder even when one of you is offline.

Now: Talk to your Yahoo! friends, too
The world's largest IM network has just gotten bigger—and better. With Windows Live Messenger you can now connect with your Yahoo! IM contacts. Forget about using multiple accounts to talk to your friends—IM them all with Windows Live Messenger.

Here are some key features
of "Windows Live Messenger":

Talk to your Yahoo! friends, too
With Windows Live Messenger, you can now connect with your Yahoo! friends. Forget about using multiple accounts to talk to your friends. You can do it all directly from Windows Live Messenger. The world's largest IM network has just gotten bigger—and better.

PC-to-PC Calling
Speak your mind: Have a high-quality voice conversation using PC-to-PC Calling. Free.

Even better video conversations
Those old science fiction movies with TV phones? That's what the new Messenger will give you, only better: live, full-screen (640x480) video.

Sharing Folders
Drag a file onto a contact’s name. You’ve just created a Sharing Folder. Now you and your contact can get to all the files in the folder any time, even if one of you is offline.

Text message their phones
See a little mobile icon next to a friend's name? Just right click to send a text message.

Your two-way, super-powered address book
With Windows Live Contacts, whenever your contacts update their information, it will also be changed in your Messenger address book. Instantly. (Your Windows Live Mail address book will be updated, too.)

Windows Live Alerts
Headlines, sports scores, traffic, or just about anything else you want to keep up with—get pop-up notifications of things as they happen.


Requirements:

Computer and processor: Multimedia PC Pentium 233 MHz process (500 MHz recommended)
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista
Memory: Minimum 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)
Hard disk: Up to 50 MB of hard disk space for installation, 15 MB to run the program
Display: Minimum 800 x 600 screen resolution
Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6 SP1 or later must be installed on your computer, though it does not need to be your default browser.
Internet connection: Internet functionality requires dial-up or broadband Internet access (provided separately). Local or long-distance charges may apply.