Microsoft have released another website today in aid of informing people about what is coming with the large update to Windows Live, http://explore.live.com/. As you would expect there is lots of information about the new features of the Windows Live applications and services but there are two things that show even more of the update than perhaps Microsoft were expecting; you can preview the new themes to one of the new ones and use Messenger WebIM.
To access the WebIM you can go to http://explore.live.com/handlers/webim.mvc which is the “popped out” version of the WebIM. Then sign in which will present a list of contacts online which replicates the look of the client version of Messenger in Wave 4 with two columns of contacts.
Two useful parts of the pop out window I have discovered is that you can easily see if you have any new emails as a number will appear beside the Hotmail icon and you can collapse the contacts list so you only see the chat window.
If you can’t wait for Windows Live Wave 4 then I am sure some of these features and information will be quite exciting to you, not long now until its all official and we can all use it.
