Microsoft launches final version of MSN Messenger 7

It has taken the world’s largest software company quite sometime to release the final version of their flagship instant messaging client. After four months of intense testing, Microsoft has finally released MSN Messenger 7 as a final release. The company has done its homework well and integrated many of their services together to release this latest version.

MSN Messenger 7 brings to its users full-screen video and PC-to-PC audio in addition to integration with MSN Spaces and MSN Search. In addition, to enhance their MSN Video Conversations, the company has joined hands with tech giants Logitech who would be providing them with the technology.

Microsoft has also brought in SMS text messaging to this updated version. This let the messenger users contact other people on their mobile phones using MSN Messenger 7. Messenger users get to add new friends using their mobile numbers. A test message to a mobile phone in the United States from MSN Messenger 7 in India worked fine.

MSN Messenger 7 is also now somewhat integrated with Microsoft’s own Windows Media Player and Apple iTunes application and displays the current song being played on these applications. Winamp is however missing from this list of supported applications. MSN Winks is of course present as in the beta versions along with the paid content from services like American Greetings, Sprite, and Adidas.

User would not definitely like the addition of paid services and advertisements on the chat windows of the applications. Nevertheless, this is how the company has decided to extract revenues from this otherwise resource intensive online service. Especially considering the fact that Microsoft is serving around 155 million users with 2 billion instant messages transmitting around every day.