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If you use Windows Live Messenger (WLM) regularly and want to use it even in your mobile phone, then there is a good news for you.

Now you can download WLM in your mobile phone. You just need to select your "Operator", "Mobile Phone Brand" and model number and that's it.

Go to following link:

Windows Live Messenger on your mobile

The site is flash based and once the flash file is loaded, you can select the desired options.

Its a full WLM version. You can chat with friends, can use emoticons, can have group chats and can send images as well.

Thanks to Windows Live Channel Blog and Rob Margel...

Source: Microsoft

There is a good news for Cricket lovers. Now Live Search provides Cricket scores, schedules and many more interesting things related to Cricket.

You just need to type your desired query related to Cricket in Live Search box.

Here is what “Ravi Datanwala” (Group Manager – Live Search and Acting Windows Live Lead) has to say regarding this new feature:

A few months back, we launched some cool new features for Live Search (Image/Video Search, Local Search, xRank, Instant Answers etc) which enhance the search experience for consumers. One of the core tenets of Live Search is to bring solutions to consumers which help in “getting the job done … quicker” when searching for information.

Continuing on this trend of bringing features which help in “getting the job done … quicker”, we bring to you another interesting feature in Live Search for all cricket lovers. Cricket scores (when a match is being played) and schedules (dates when the next cricket match is scheduled).

Type in any cricket related query on Live Search (cricket, cric, scores, Live Cricket India vs Australia, etc) and get better results for cricket related information, match scores or match schedules. Do check out the features at http://www.live.co.in.

Here is a screenshot:

1. Open Windows Live Mail (The Desktop Mail Client not browser one) and click on “New” button in toolbar.

2. Now do not enter any recipient in “To:” text field and click on “Send” button.

3. It’ll show following error message:

4. Click on OK button and try to enter recipient in “To:” text field. Yep, you got the bug. It’ll not accept any text. Type anything but it’ll show nothing.

5. Go further and click into “Subject:” text field. now click again in “To:” text field and type something. Now it’ll accept the text.

6. One more bug. Don’t follow Step 4 and when WLM will not accept any text in “To:” text field, click in message composing area and again click in “To:” text field. Now whatever you’ll type in “To:” text field, will be entered into message area. Funny. isnt it?

When I installed the Windows Live Wave 3 pack released by Microsoft Live team recently and run “Windows Live Mail” desktop client, the first thing which I noticed was the new toolbar:

As you can see in the above screenshot, the toolbar background has been changed and surprisingly, they have removed the small icons from all buttons in the toolbar.

First it was looking a bit odd and I had no idea why did they remove the icons and why a new toolbar background cause the previous toolbar background was Vista default which you can see in Vista Explorer as well.

Now all the things are clear to me when I saw the screenshot of Windows 7 M3 Build Explorer:

Above screenshot shows how the Explorer window looks in recently leaked Windows 7 M3 build. This screenshot has been taken from ThinkNext.net website.

As you can see Windows 7 Explorer has the same toolbar background and it also doesn’t have toolbar icons similar to new Windows Live Mail version.

So the things are clear now. Microsoft is trying to make all new applications looking similar to Windows 7. Same as they did in past when Windows Vista was released.

So does it mean they have finalized Windows 7 UI? Are they not going to chage it any more? There are many such questions which will only get answered when we’ll get the first Beta of Windows 7 very soon.

Did you know there is an extra hidden tab in Windows Live Messenger Option dialog box? Its called "Add-in". I don’t know why its hidden by default? Today I found a registry hack to enable it in WLM while playing with WLM’s EXE file in Resource Hacker.

Before:

After:

So here is step-by-step tutorial to enable it:

1. Open regedit and goto:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger

2. In right-side pane, create a new DWORD value and give it name “AddInFeatureEnabled” and set its value to 1

3. Thats it. Now open Windows Live Messenger and goto “Tools -> Options” and you’ll see a new tab "Add-ins" at last.