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Your instant messenger

Send instant messages, make voice calls, play games, and share photos with your best friends anywhere in the world - for free - with Windows Live Messenger. Use Messenger's "What's new" feature to see what your friends have been doing on Windows Live or other social networking websites such as MySpace, Flickr and Facebook.

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Messenger How To Guides
Messenger How To Guides
Windows Live Messenger

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Features

What's in Messenger?

Chat to your friends in real-time
Chat to your friends
in real-time
What’s new?
What’s new?
Make your Messenger more you
Make your Messenger
more you
Share photos
Share photos
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Real-time chat

Chat to your friends in real-time

Keep in touch with friends and family with Windows Live Messenger by sending an instant message whenever and wherever you’re online. Feel closer by using your webcam to have video conversations or IM from your mobile when you’re out and about.

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What's new feed

What’s new?

See updates from your friends as they happen; status updates, new photos uploaded to the web and posted comments. You can also see what they’re up to on other social networks including Facebook, MySpace and Flickr - all from your Messenger window.

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Personalise your Messenger

Make your Messenger more you

Personalise your Messenger by updating your status message, changing your scene, background and colour or adding a dynamic display picture or photo. Try using your webcam to record a short video clip to use as your display picture or associate different webcam pictures or videos with emoticons and use them in IM chats with friends.

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Share Photos

Share photos

Drag and drop photos from your computer straight into your Messenger conversations to share them with friends and family. Add as many photos to the slideshow as you like. Try dropping a photo directly on the Messenger window itself (where your display picture is) to change your scene – now all your friends will see this on their chat window when you IM them.

Works well with...

Messenger on iPhone

Send and receive instant messages from Messenger with Windows Live for Mobile on your iPhone.

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mobile

Hotmail

Use Messenger to check your Windows Live Hotmail e-mail account with a single click.

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Hotmail

Photos

Drag and drop photos in to a conversation and instantly share with your contacts.

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Windows Live Photo

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Messenger

Windows Live Messenger

Chat to your friends in real time on your PC or mobile with Windows Live Messenger. Share photos, chat in groups of up to 20, play games and personalise to make it more you.

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How to use Windows Live

It all starts with your Windows Live ID. If you're already using Windows Live Hotmail or Windows Live Messenger, your user name is your Windows Live ID.

Access them all on your Windows Live homepage.
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