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Top features

  • New! Keep up with friends online The “What’s New“ feed in Messenger gives you the latest updates about your Windows Live friends network.
  • New! Your favorites Easily interact with the people you contact most. Favorites is “speed-dial” for your contact list: your most important contacts are anchored at the top of the Messenger window.
  • New! Groups Chat simultaneously with up to 20 people to make staying in touch easy. Every new Group in Messenger gets its own home page and group calendar.
  • Personalize: Easily change how your contacts see you with various scenes and animated display pictures.
  • Video chat: Why just text when you can see and hear your favorite people? See friends and family in full-screen, real-time chat. (You and your friend need a microphone, speakers or a headset, a webcam, and broadband access.)
  • Multiple services, one account: Talk to Yahoo! friends from within Messenger—and sign up friends from Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged, and LinkedIn to be Messenger contacts.
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