Microsoft has released a free theme tool for Windows7 and other versions Windows called Windows Experience Pack. Windows Experience pack is a cloud application and it produces an executable with Windows7 and Windows live messenger customization package according to user preferences. Once downloaded and executed, the customization package will offer customers the possibility of saving the avatar locally and choose Bing as the default search engine and MSN as the default home page. For users that don’t have Microsoft’s IM client, the package is designed to also download and install Windows Live Messenger.

With the Windows Experience Pack, you are able create an alter-ego of yourself in a specific destination – a beach, mountain, safari, or city. When you create your alter-ego, you create a fully customized avatar for that destination that becomes a part of a Windows Live Messenger and Windows 7 theme for your PC. You’ll also be able to download a .jpg image of your avatar to share, print, or use as your icon on social networks. Windows Experience Pack is capable of creating a Windows 7 theme complete with a desktop background, out of a plethora of wallpapers, a screensaver, and an avatar which can be personalized and bundled with pictures of end users.

For a specific destination you pick, the following Windows Live Messenger elements are created for you to use in Messenger for your alter-ego:

• 1 static Display Picture
• Up to 4 Dynamic Display Pictures
• A Wink
• 7 new Emoticons
• A new Messenger Scene

For Windows 7, you are given the choice between 3 desktop backgrounds for your destination and a screensaver featuring multiple photos from your destination.

The Windows Experience Pack was created and optimized for Windows 7, but it can be downloaded and used on PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista too (although performance and features may vary).

Recently to promote I’M a PC campaign Microsoft has released a Windows Live Messenger theme pack.

Today ReadersZone comes with all major software releases by Microsoft in last month.

• Windows Vista Ultimate Extras : Three new Windows Ultimate Extras are now available for installation via Windows Update! This is the 6th wave of Ultimate Extras released by Microsoft exclusively for Windows Vista Ultimate users.
• New Online Food Website: Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a unit of Hearst Magazines, and MSN today announced the launch of Delish (a new online food destination. Delish.com, also available at msn, features thousands of quick and easy food and cocktail recipes from Hearst Magazines and other sources, as well as fan blogs on the most popular food television shows, and the latest on food events and festivals worldwide.
• Word2007 Redaction Tool : This open-source tool is unsupported by Microsoft, however advanced users and IT Professionals may wish to review it. The tool enables the process of removing specific parts of text which you don’t want to appear in the final document.
• Windows Server 2008 HPC Server (HPCS) : Windows HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate with your existing infrastructure.
• SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update #1 : You can find more information in the KB Article 956717 to take your SQL Server to build 10.00.1763.00.
• System Center Essentials Technology Adoption Program (TAP): The goal of the TAP program enables customers and Microsoft to build a mutually beneficial and long term relationship to build the next version of the System Center Essentials product. If you are interesting in joining the TAP.
• Windows Live Messenger BETA : The next version of the popular Windows Live Messenger is now available, get the BETA version here. What’s new? A new improved and cleaner User Interface, pictures of people right in your contact list, the ability to search for people and the web, new categories feature and much more.
• Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0 : The next version of Virtual Earth is now available with new features included, enhanced mobile support, better international support and more detail for more countries around the word, the platform infrastructure with new geocoding and parsing improvements, and a richer user experience and more intuitive functionality.
• Silverlight 2.0 RC0 : The release candidate of Silverlight will give developers the change to convert their sites from Beta 2 before the final release is announced.

Source : Microsoft News Summary, 28th September 2008

Here is another leakage from windows live messenger team. it is not happening first time, earlier an initial alpha release was leaked which introduced with interesting new features. Now this time the latest build of Windows Live Messenger 9 is 14.0.3921.717 leaked and it is also available on torrents and other forums and spreading very rapidly .this latest version is much more clear, colorful and stylish interface .Live Messenger 9 now also includes WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) features

after downloading (link below) and installing, you will notice the partial makeover of the main and chat windows. They haven’t been completely renovated but the noticeable changes are made.In the leaked WLM build, found two new feature, first is new photo-sharing utility that lets your contacts to share and browse photos simultaneously ,and the another feature is “group” which can create group sessions like never before.

Other features that are also expected from the final release are

• Sign-in from multiple locations

• Report and block users who spam via IM – SPIM feature

• Click able links in Status Message like Google Talk

• Animated display pictures

• Personalized signature and per contact sounds

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The leaked WLM (build 9.0.1407.1107) can be downloaded from here.

Windows live messenger releases 30 new funny emoticons they called them as “Fun Family”.you can directly download it from windows live messenger web site free of cost Package have emoticons showing: exploding bomb, funny lion, ugly pig, crazy cat, scary pirate and lots more. Besides the look, emoticons are highly animated making them overall very attractive. This package has 30 really cool emoticons ready for free download. These new emoticons are very colorful and jazzed up.

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