Windows Live Wave 4 leaked

More news regarding Windows Live Wave 4 has been leaked all over the internet, which includes Windows Live Messenger 2010 (version 15) beta. As you can see from the pictures below, the user interface has changed quite a bit! Social Networking is starting to be implemented into Messenger including your Windows Live Profile and Facebook intergration (which isn’t working at the moment). The new features also allow you to instantly share photos and links from a status window built into Messenger.

The testing for Windows Live Wave 4 has actually been kept very quiet recently, with only 18 BETA testers outside of Microsoft, in Europe. However a timeline has been leaked now providing quite a bit more information about when us, the public, will be able to get our hands on the BETA!

Spanish blogger and official tester Francisco Martín García has shared more information including the following dates:

• 28 April – the selected testers “get access to latest builds”
• 18 May – Windows Live 2010 M3 RTW (release to web)
• 3 June – “complete public disclosure” (and compile date for the public beta, according to MuyWindows)
• 7 June – “public beta” released
• 7 June – Messenger for iPhone released in “main languages”
• 25 August – “additional languages” for Messenger and iPhone, and public RTW of the final version

These dates haven’t been confirmed by Microsoft however, so they could change at any time!

Other new features in Messenger include tabbed chat windows, which is a feature I personally  loved having from installing MSN Plus! Tabbed chats allow for multiple chats tabbed in one single window, which saves space along your toolbar at the bottom. Also the standard emoticons have been removed, and updated with updated icons!

(Thanks to Neowin for the image)

Stay tuned to DigiLounge for the latest updates on Windows Live Wave 4!