Microsoft releases new Windows Live IM service

"Microsoft Corp. has launched its newly branded instant messaging system, Windows Live Messenger, the first major release in a wave of online services Microsoft plans to offer to grab a larger share of Web advertising revenue.

Windows Live Messenger builds on top of Microsoft's MSN Messenger -- used by 240 million people worldwide -- and offers free PC-to-PC calls, inexpensive calls to ordinary phones from the PC and video conferencing using Web cameras."

The Live Messenger has been available in Beta for a while and there is not much visible change in the final version 8.0.0787.00 - but surely worth getting the final version.

According to the Windows Live Messenger site you will also soon be able to talk to Yahoo! Messenger users through voice.

Source: Reuters