I started using Windows Live Messenger in the last few days, and I like it. At first I was disdainful of people I saw upgrading just because it was a shiny new version and they just want to have the latest thing. But then I found out about two new features it has, and I was forced to upgrade:
- you can appear offline and still talk to people (this was a feature of ICQ about 8 years ago I think), which is cool if you’re trying to get something done but you still want to be able to talk to one or two people on your list.
- you can click a single button on the conversation window to hide the display pictures, and it remembers this when you open a new window! Finally this has been added, the big waste of display picture space was annoying to me before; you really don’t want to look at a person’s display picture the entire time you speak to them and it just makes the conversation window even bigger.
I’ve still patched my version with APatch as well, because it does a bunch of other useful stuff like removing ads and useless crap I don’t want to use. You can download my APatch settings if you want; I’ve done all the hard work of deciding what’s necessary and what’s not and of course the way I use software is the best so you’ll definitely want to use my settings.