MSN Messenger 7.5 Final ( Build 7.5.0244 ) - MSN World

There are two significant new features in the new MSN Messenger FINAL, they are as follows.

Voice Clips

The new Voice Clips feature allows you to send sound recordings up to 15 seconds long to other users of MSN Messenger 7.5 (and newer). To record a sound clip, you hold down the Voice Clip button or F2 and speak into your microphone. Needless to say, the voice clips will not be of the highest quality (for minimizing transfer time). When receiving Voice Clips, they will either be played automatically or played when you click the play button, according to your settings. There is also an option to save Voice Clips as WAV (wave) files.

Dynamic or Animated Chat Backgrounds

As with MSN Display Pictures in MSN 7.0, Conversation windows also have a 'Dynamic' counterpart in MSN Messenger 7.5. That means, animated backgrounds for your chat window, as opposed to the previously available static ones. These dynamic backgrounds are also more interactive, and come with custom Nudges, that means when one of your contacts sends you a nudge, instead of the usual Nudge sound and Window shaking, an animation (most likely with sound) will take place. MSN Messenger automatically adjusts font colors to be clearly visible when you load a dynamic background, and most of the animations so far are not very annoying. MSN Messenger 7.5 comes loaded with 2 dynamic backgrounds, with several others available for free from BlueMountain, but they are expected to be mostly premium content in the final release of MSN 7.5.

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A word of warning about using Animated/Dynamic Backgrounds:
Using Dynamic Backgounds in MSN Messenger 7.5 will cause your computer's CPU usage to increase significantly (sometimes by up to 30%) and increase the amount of RAM (Memory) consumed by MSN Messenger. If you are using an older computer, you may experience some lagging.

Design changes in MSN 7.5

The first change you will notice is that the Sign-In screen has been redesigned to now show your MSN Display Picture (very similar to those MSN Messenger concept designs we saw earlier this year). There are several options for remembering your sign-in name and password, sign-in names are no longer saved to the list by default (as with the previous MSN Messenger releases). There is also an option to easily delete an address from the sign-in list.

In the main Contact List window of MSN Messenger 7.5, the 'Add a Contact' has now been moved to the top of the contact list.

In the conversation window we find several buttons re-named, a brand new Voice Clip button, and a Webcam indicator is displayed under your and your contact's MSN Display Picture. Dynamic backgrounds are now listed under the Backgrounds drop down.