Yes, you’ve been asking us, and we promised you’d get it soon. Well, the moment you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived: instant messaging from the web is here! Now you can send instant messages from the Windows Live Hotmail and People pages! This means that, even if you’re on a public computer where Windows Live Messenger isn’t installed, you can still send IMs to your Messenger contacts!
Customers in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and USA will see this feature for the first time today (as usual, rollout to different individuals is gradual, so if you don’t see it yet, please be patient). This feature rolled out to users in France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK last month. Not in your area yet? We will be rolling out web-based Messenger to more locations in the coming months.
Sign in to Messenger on the Web in Hotmail
Here’s what you get with the new web Messenger:
- You can sign in to and send instant messages from any computer connected to the Internet, even if it doesn’t have Windows Live Messenger installed.
- You can also send IMs to your Messenger contacts from the People page (your contact list). Just click the contact’s picture, and you’ll see Send an instant message on the dropdown menu.
Send an instant message from a contact’s drop-down menu on the People page
- In Hotmail, if one of your Messenger contacts sends you e-mail, you’ll see their Messenger availability indicated in green, yellow, or red right by their name. If it’s green, click it and instantly start chatting.
A chat window in web Messenger
- If you have more than one Windows Live ID, you can sign in to web Messenger and regular Messenger at the same time, with different IDs.
- Don’t worry, people can only see your availability if you’ve agreed to be their Messenger contacts. You can sign in and use Hotmail or any other Windows Live service without signing in to web Messenger, so nobody can start chatting with you until you decide to let them know you’re available.
Have fun, and let us know how you like it!
- Antonia
Windows Live team
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@E. You never have to use web Messenger if you don\’t want to. You won\’t appear as "available" to your Messenger contacts unless you explicitly sign in to web Messenger from the Hotmail page. If you don\’t, you won\’t. So in a way, it\’s "disabled" by default.
Nice feature but i\’ll have to wait for the next months.@Windows Live TeamBy saying "We will be rolling …to more locations in the coming months. ", what is the timeframe ? I mean, is there a final date when it should be available worldwide ?
Finally! I just wish it didn\’t require opening up another window/tab, because it really adds more clutter to all the other windows/tabs! Do it the way Yahoo! Mail and GMail does it – on the same window/tab.
Great work Windows Live team. But it will be good to set custom message as status msg, same windows integration and video/audio chat as google provided. I know this is the beginning and i wish you improve the feature set as time passes and incorporate all the above specified and cool features. I am looking forward Web IM to be available in India.
thanks for the help guys
have a suggestion: While pop-ups is a way to handle conversation windows, I think it\’s not the preferred approach. Pop-ups may be blocked by the browser\’s built in Pop-up Blockers or other installed softwares. You might want to handle those conversation windows the way that, for instance, Facebook does it. By using a bar on the left, right, bottom, or top of the browser will reduce the number of browser tabs/windows open and will give you a way to display more information to the user like \’Who\’s online\’ as well as hiding/showing the conversation windows in the bar itself.
doesnt work on safari 4!
@ Secretary General PFUJ-PAKISTAN – To get help with your Hotmail issues, please go to http://windowslivehelp.com/. Sorry, but we cannot do anything for you here on this blog.
why Hotmail ID can\’t be open with LIVE mobile…can anybody help me………………………………………………………..
It would be nice if you could tell me why Internet Explorer opens a IM windows of Live Messenger and FireFox a window with a web client?
receved request for personal data using your namesaid hotmail acount will be shut off if i do not respondthink request is false seantraverse@hotmail.com is address in request bogus or not???
"E. Niworewrote: Glad so many people are stoked about this new service, but I don\’t want it. Can I remove it/disable it from Hotmail?Windows Live Team wrote:@E. You never have to use web Messenger if you don\’t want to. You won\’t appear as "available" to your Messenger contacts unless you explicitly sign in to web Messenger from the Hotmail page. If you don\’t, you won\’t. So in a way, it\’s "disabled" by default."Thanks for the quick response, but I don\’t even want to see the link. What I really want to remove the link entirely. I don\’t IM (so I have no Messenger contacts), & have no interest in starting. While we\’re at it, can I "opt out" of the social networking features as well? I don\’t want to add contacts to a network I don\’t have and have no use for anyway. Sorry if it sounds like I\’m ranting but its frustrating that MS seems to think I want to share everything with everyone I know. (Even if I did want to, I sure as h3ll don\’t have the time.) Thanx 4 listening…
This is great but I have one question. I have 2 Live ID. One is in msn.com and the other one is in live.fr. Could you tell me why IM is working when I log with my .com account but not with my .fr account ?Thanks
Hello，I am a fan of Windows Live，also the admin of Windows Live Community（China）。Now I found that when I use the language does not the Language which Country I sign up，I cannot found the Web IM in the Hotmail！
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@Tomer Cohen & KieranWeb IM in Hotmail is supported in later versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer. For more detailed info see this article in the Hotmail Online Solutions Center: http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/webim/archive/2009/04/14/how-to-use-messenger-in-windows-live-hotmail.aspx-DawnWindows Live team
Very nice!
@philipMicrosoft will never ask you to provide your username, password, date of birth, country, credit card information, etc. via e-mail. Never enter your password anywhere besides the official Windows Live ID sign-in page. For other ways to spot a scam and what to do see the E-mail scams “from Windows Live” post: http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!36411.entry-DawnWindows Live team
This looks awesome!! Can\’t wait to try it out! =)
@Florian DamienHmm, WebIM in Hotmail is available in France, so you should see it in the Inbox when you sign in to your live.fr account. It might not be showing up because your home country isn’t set to France. To check your Home country setting, in the upper-right corner click your profile picture and then click “View your account”. Click the “Registered information” link. In the Home location section, make sure France is selected in the Country/region field. If that doesn’t help, try the Hotmail Online Solutions Center: http://windowslivehelp.com/.-DawnWindows Live team
That is cool but I still can\’t use it Looking forward to talking to you guy via web IM
I\’m using it, but doesnt work with Firefox, Messenger doesnt detect I\’m signed in @ web, and vice-versa.
Oh, now is working. O.o
Maybe an easier way to view Online contacts would be helpful, but yes I can now forget old MSN Web Messenger, Thanks.
the fonts are so tiny on my Today small page I can barely read them. Do you know where I can go to adjust the size of them?
when can i expect to see WebIM in Australia? I can\’t wait~! Finally MSN at school again
@Chuck Rollason – If you are using Internet Explorer 7 or 8, you should see a little magnifying glass in the lower-right corner that says "100%" (or some other percent). Click it to change to larger size. Or you can change text size in the IE "Page" menu at the top.
@Windows Live Team, nice job on Web IM, better than the old MSN Web Messenger. But can you guys make easiers to see online contacts in a window? or in Windows Live People?
How long will it take to see in Turkey ? I look forward to see it..by the way, there is no way to see online people in a category, just categorised as In messenger and In Network, and need history section.
Yes that was it ! it works now. Thank you Dawn.
Help! Sometimes I leave PC turned on. And I got out, when I use my laptop I singin from Web IM I get signed out from PC. Any help?
any one out there thatcan help me incorporated my Live e-mail account into outlook express?
It looks very impressive, I have been trying to get on MSN for 2 days now and it keeps telling me I am not connected to the internet, I have followed the instructions on how to solve the problem but with no avail. Is there anyone out there who can let me know how to remove MSN and then reinstall it I would very much appreciate any help many thanks – a new gramma.
Hi , can any1 tell me that when this feature will be in available to Indian Customers ??
I am able to see my friend but they cant see me How do I fix this
it just keeps getting better, i like msn live hotmail so much better then gmail.
But why does it delete the former Messenger icons that were my fast track into IM from the desktop or tray. Now I have to go through that whole business of getting into Live first, then into people, then into Page 5 of people (or whatever) – please put a link on the Live front page for Messenger and give us the option of a separate icon hotlink for the desktopA.
when can i expect this in India?
Is anyone even using IM anymore? Please dont bolux up hotmail AGAIN.
i keep getting photo albums sent to my account from random girls…did i hit something by accident to make this happen? what can i do to get them to stop?
I cant find any place to contact hotmail to ask what happen with my click4easytrade@hotmail.com account, because many people told me sent me e mails and I not recieved. I loock in filters abd is in standar. I looked in junk mail but something happen. do you can help me Thanks.
@ROSANA MAGALU and Lovely Guy – You can get help with Hotmail issues at http://windowslivehelp.com/.
how come i don\’t have that icon?
I am so annoyed that I cannot access my old emails and all deleted emails have been wiped off my file – how the hell am I supposed to send my friends emails when all my adresses have been wiped off also??????? I am not receiveing emails that I know have been sent in the last 30 minutes and I am thouroughly disappointed with the service that you are supposed to be providing. Please give me some feedback on how to access my old files and actually get some kind of a bloody service!!!!
someone out there who could help me it looks loke \\I have forgotten my password I do not get to the page where I could set up a new one. these pages do not open I am quite frustrated my email address is helmutheinen@hotmail.com
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Hi, great and thanks that you solved the problem of reordering the photos! But now I\’m trying to re-order the albums and it seems it is not possible!(?). I tried with the "Personalised selection of albums" option and then put the numbers according to the order, but this is limited to only 20 albums!Does any body knows how to do it?thanks!
WHAAAA! I tried to log on to messenger with my new cell phone and it deleted all my contacts! I am in trouble, I had 450 people in my list and I need this list for my new business, it could spell bankrupty for me! I managed to get some of the contacts back from the "people who have me in their list" options, but not all of them, still missing 150 people, HELP! I called microsoft and they told me to try here, I know I am not supposed to give out personal info but how wil you contact me? Anyone out there with a new cell phone, back up your contacts before you connect!!
I tried to send an email, but found that EVERYONE of my email addresses are gone! Please help me find them!!!
@Patricia Pickerel and Steven T – You can get help with Hotmail and Contacts problems from http://windowslivehelp.com/. Steven, I don\’t know who told you to try here for help, but this is really not a help site, just a blog with news, tips, and updates about Windows Live. Best of luck with this.- Antonia Windows Live team
Suggestion: Backup your contacts each time they change. If you lose them and you have no backup, I can\’t see that you can get them back unless each one makes contact again. Sad, but painfully true!
Ok, i\’ve found a trick for the unliky guys ( i was one :p ), just change the location in your account settings to one where this feature is enabled, e.g USA… Just do that to have the WebIM in your hotmail account.
It works like a charm. This feature will be useful for many people, I would imagine. Is this a sign that there will be a standalone Windows Live Messenger web version (the big trick would be finding an appropriate name!)? This is web messenger integration with Hotmail and People is great but it seems hidden. Maybe that\’s intentional so that users download the standalone Messenger app? Anyway, nice work.
Update info: You must have something like Windows Live Mail on your Desktop to try this: In there, Click your Contacts list. When they appear, hit File–>Export. Choose the Comma Separated Values option (CSV). Give that file a name and click save. You might have to click Browse first. Your contacts will then be saved on your hard drive. Put this newly saved Contacts file on a CD or other storage device and keep it safe! One of my own, tech savvy contacts on here taught me that one. It\’s been a life-saver!
Please stop the yellow teeth ads! I am so sick of seeing bad teeth when I check my mail that I am about to drop live mail entirely.Thank you.
@JenGood idea for archiving the contacts. The WLMail interface is not as robust in exporting contacts as the web interface with or without using a Live ID to signon to Windows Live in WLMail. e.g. WLMail can only export and import one mapped email address(ie..if one has data in all available email fields(personal email, other email, work email, IM address)only one can be mapped to export or later imported. The web interface at contacts.live.com will export all fields. An alternative in WLMail or suggested addition in lieu or addition to backup/save to *.csv is to copy the account\’s database file, contacts.edb to archive storage(cd, hard drive etc). If necessary it can be used to replace the existing, an earlier, or blank contact database in one or more Live accounts or the default account(no Live ID used to signin to Windows Live in WLMail) accounts.
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when it will be available to india?
Trying to find a simple feed to support is literally a joke here.
@JimSince you didn\’t specify what type or support or feed..maybe these might be appropriateWindows Live Support Homehttps://support.live.com/default.aspxHotmail Support for free Hotmail type accounts(Hotmail.com, Live.Com, Msn.com)Hotmail Online Solutions Center http://windowslivehelp.com/Default.aspx- Solutions for Common Problems http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/****Note: If you have a Hotmail Plus account(Fee based account @~$20/yr U.S.) you are also entitled to email, online chat, and phone support.How To Access Support for a Hotmail Plus accounthttp://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F92775FC46A390CA!341.entry …winston msft-mvp
how can I get my email on fedora 10 .?. do I have to give up my hotmail?
When will microsoft grow up and create linux based product suppors and protocal adaptors so we can choose their products on others OS? lets start with livemail … for fedora … $19.99 cd or dvd that allows us to have the livemail application but on Fedora … you win iwin qui all win when real windows aps can be found everywhere … grow up out and expand the 21st century to coexist with Open Source …
Hi………..I have been blocked by hotmail team, may i know why my account have been blocked???since i didnt do any violation????I request hot mail team to re-open my account as soon as possible.Reardsshaan mallick
why am I getting so much junk mail on a daily basis. I\’m getting hundreds of emails a day about viagra and pills. How do I limit this?
why don\’t I know when I have new messages until I go to my hotmail.
I have been using my hotmail addresse for a long time and I dnt see the web messenger sign when i sign in but I recently created a new email addresse and that email had the web messenger sign when i signed in hotmail so why doesnt it work for my older email addresse….
Can anyone help me figure out how to change the language on here from norwegian to english thanx
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Can one set a profile to reflect a business name or say a website as the name shown on the profile?
Also, it sure seems to be hard to locate folks you might want to add that are already on this network that, for networking purposes related to what your active in and also hard as hell to figure out if you have any pending add me request without searching all over to see if you have any new add me request/
Can you delete people you have accepted the request to?
plz open my email page plz
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i dont get it