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MSN Messenger lets you see when your friends are online and exchange instant messages with them. Send instant messages with cool, new emoticons, call anywhere in the world from your computer, see when someone’s typing, page a contact’s mobile phone, send pictures and music to your friends, and much more. You can also use this free program to make phone calls, send a message to a pager, trade pictures and music with your friends and much more.
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  REDMOND, Wash. — June 17, 2003 — Instant messaging (IM) got more spirited

  and savvy today with the worldwide availability of a public preview program

  for MSN? Messenger 6. The launch ends the era of “vanilla” instant messaging,

  when everyone’s IM interface looked the same;   was considered an expressive

  emoticon; and IM lovers had to go elsewhere to play games or share live video.


MSN Messenger 6, available beginning today at 11 a.m. PDT from http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp,

  helps users create their own online identities through customized display pictures,

  backgrounds and emoticons. They also can share more of themselves — silly or

  serious — with IM contacts by competing at live online games, sending photos

  to their friends, or sharing animated emoticons that breathe life into that

  sad old . In addition, MSN Messenger 6 lets users connect in fresh, new ways

  — via a webcam, a multitude of mobile devices or a Tablet PC — while blocking

  spam and helping protect privacy.

“MSN Messenger 6 lets everyone create their own digital personality and

  play in a virtual playground with friends from around the block or around the

  world,” said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president for MSN. “Consumers

  told us they wanted a place to gather and have fun online, and we’ve delivered

  a hallmark example of MSN’s commitment to delivering the best communication

  services for consumers worldwide.”

Designing a Digital Self With MSN Messenger 6

IM lovers who are tired of generic interfaces and a lack of personalization

  features can let their individuality run wild with MSN Messenger 6. More than

  30 new emoticons allow users to express their feelings graphically and, for

  the first time, through animated images, including a birthday cake with flickering

  candles, a happy face with a blinking eye, and a sad face that scrunches its

  eyes and cries droplets of tears. MSN Messenger also lets users take their IM

  experience to the next level by easily creating their own emoticons with any

  image they can create or upload.

MSN Messenger 6 also offers innovative features that allow users to do the

  following:

Choose a personalized background from a wealth of options such as cartoons,

  sports or international locations; create their own background from favorite

  photos or logos; and share favorite background themes with IM contacts

  Select customized display pictures of their favorite pet or celebrities or other

  pictures to represent themselves to contacts

  Choose from more than 150 fonts and 16 colors of type to represent their personal

  style

  Save favorite IM conversations to a personal hard drive with just one click

  via message logging

  Within hours after downloading MSN Messenger 6, Max Wong, a senior product manager

  for a technology distribution company in New Zealand, personalized his IM interface

  by using a picture of his car, a red Nissan Silvia S15, as his display picture.

  As his personal background, he picked a picture of him and a group of friends

  from a recent dance party.

“I’m loving this new release,” Wong said in an IM conversation. “Personalizing

  is all-important as it allows you to inject your own look and feel to what could

  otherwise be a work tool. The same goes for other items I use every day, e.g.,

  my car, my phone. It becomes a direct extension of my personality.”

MSN couldn’t have added the ability to save IM conversations at a better time

  for Ingra Ostheimer, a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army at Fort Huachuca,

  Ariz. Her husband, who is an Army staff sergeant, is currently stationed in

  Kuwait. “It is sentimental; sometimes he says something I want to be able

  to easily save so I can recall our conversations,” Ostheimer said in an

  IM conversation. “Now I can do this without having to cut and paste the

  message into a Word doc.”

She also was quick to begin using other personalization features. “It’s

  really easy to integrate your own pics onto the screen,” she said. Her

  display picture is of her dog, Sir Arthur, a 9-pound Shih Tzu.

Mike Montee, an eighth-grader at Sunridge Middle School in Pendleton, Ore.,

  uses one word to describe MSN Messenger 6: “Tight.” What was the first

  personal emoticon he created? One with a picture of actress and model Carmen

  Electra.

In addition, to coincide with the availability of the preview version, MSN

  will launch a Messenger Preview Group. The group will launch with custom emoticons,

  backgrounds and display pictures for users of MSN Messenger 6 to download and

  share with others. By joining the group, users can upload their own custom elements

  and share them around the world. The group can be found at http://groups.msn.com/messengerv6beta/.