Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta 2
Tuesday 18th September, 2007 09:29 Comments: 0
It seems to have lost most of its BETA status, and gained a 2008 name (normally WLM goes live about 3 months after the last BETA, most people expected 8.5 to be ready now, but this new beta version (came out in August?) should push things closer to a mid November rollout, with promotion happening across December (perhaps in time for everyone getting their new Vista PCs for Xmas?). So I tried installing it (using a setup file from mess.be, as my wireless connection briefly died halfway through the installation using the proper WLinstaller.exe) onto one of my XP machines over Remote Desktop. I had used \\\\tsclient to access the setup file that was on the desktop of my laptop and it was all looking fine until up came:
So I thought to myself "bugger" followed immediately by "I wonder if..." (as I didn't want to have to hook up a monitor, mouse and keyboard just to install WLM) and it turns out I was right. All I had to do was copy the setup file onto the desktop of the XP computer and run it from there instead. For some reason trying to run the setup file over a terminal services network share produced that rather odd looking error message. I've installed it now, and everything looks fine. Messenger Plus! Live also seems to be happy.
So I thought to myself "bugger" followed immediately by "I wonder if..." (as I didn't want to have to hook up a monitor, mouse and keyboard just to install WLM) and it turns out I was right. All I had to do was copy the setup file onto the desktop of the XP computer and run it from there instead. For some reason trying to run the setup file over a terminal services network share produced that rather odd looking error message. I've installed it now, and everything looks fine. Messenger Plus! Live also seems to be happy.