If you can’t wait to use the upcoming
Windows Live
Messenger 8.5 you could try and download the leaked version of it which is not official of course. The language of the
leaked Live Messenger 8.5 is Spanish but you could
download the
English language file as well to change the language to English.
The program itself got a complete new
user interface better suited for
Windows Vista plus additional changes which have not been announced yet. Windows Plus users should download the
msimg32.dll and place it in the appropriate directory to add plus functionality again. Not everything will be working though as of now.
I would probably make at least a complete
backup of my system before I would install this leaked version. The above version appears to be without the
adware that was added by the initial leaker. You should still scan the downloaded files before you execute any of them.