The brand new IM software Windows Live Messenger 2009 is a popular freeware messaging platform created by the Microsoft Corporation. It helps you stay in touch with friends and family quickly, easily and best all for free any time you want. One of the benefits of this new messenger is its list feature that lets you put the people you chat with most often at the top of your Favorites list and keep in touch with them at the click of a mouse. That way you can see who is online without scrolling through an alphabetical list or sorting through buddy names.

If there are several people online at once you can set up a chat room and talk with all who want to chat at once. This allows you all to be involved in a single conversation with the entire group that is currently online, rather than one-one one communication only. Another benefit of this live messaging service once named MSN Messenger is that sharing photos is easy and convenient. Not only can you share your photos through photo sharing sites such as facebook, you can share them through messaging as well. This in nice because you may have some photos you cant to just share with a few select friends and not everyone, but that’s hard to do in Facebook, but with the New Version of MSN Messenger it is very easy.

Also, using Windows Live Messenger 2009, photos can be posted and viewed by all participants in a single conversation, directly from the conversation window. Its notification features tells you when people in your contact lists have posted new photos on Windows Live so that you can stay up to date on the lives of your friends and family.

One of the best ways to show your individuality in your messenger is by customizing Messenger. Custom scenes, signature sounds and animated displays will allow you to create a personalized online environment. To download the latest version, you must have Vista, Vista 64, Windows 7, Windows 7 64 or Windows XP. There are updates available frequently, so check often to stay current. You can also download Smileys and emoticons for Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger and share your emotions and feelings very easily with just the click of a mouse.

There are tens of thousands of Smileys that you can download for free and place on your computer to easily use during your conversations while instant messaging. There are happy smilies, sad smileys, mean smileys, fun ones, 3d smileys and all kinds of emoticons that let you really express who you are and how you are feeling while you message your friends. No more do you have to just use the goofy text smileys and emoticons, you now have access to all the free smileys and emoticons for free that you could ever want.

 Windows Live Messenger 2009 Features

There are several features in this new Messenger that have not been included in earlier versions. The first is the level of personalization that can be achieved and you can slo personalize your messages with custom 3d smileys. Now you can add a profile picture or display a specific scene on the chat window and the standard status message can be modified. Add your latest personal news, a link to your current favorite site or even post what song you are listening to. The “What’s New” feed has been integrated into the conversation window as well. This lets you stay in touch with your buddy’s and see what they are up to at a glance.

There is no need to log in across several destinations. The favorites feature is like speed dial for Windows Live Messenger 2009. The people you chat with most often can be put at the top. Private chat rooms can be created on the fly. This means you can chat with many of your contacts simultaneously, rather than having a separate conversation window for each. You can stay connected without the hassle of juggling windows. In the latest version, up to 20 members can be included in one conversation. This multi-function freeware by Microsoft lets you stay in touch with those closest to you with just a click of the mouse.

The nice thing about the free MSN Messenger is that it can save you money on your phone bill. With all the added feature to the new version of MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, you might want to use it more than you do the telephone or your own cell phone. Since your cell phone isn’t quite as robust as MSN Messenger, you may even use your phone a lot less.

Whatever you do and however you like to stay in contact with your friends, the latest Windows Live Messenger update will help you do it and stay in touch with your friends and family as often as you want to. If you feel like you never have enough time to chat with your friends because you are on the computer so much, this is the perfect software to download and install on your system because you can chat with people when you are working at the office, (not really recommended) or just cruising Facebook or doing whatever you do on your computer all day long.

MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger is very easy to install and get running on your system, and don’t forget about the thousands of free MSN animated Smileys that you can download and install as well. Keep updated with your friends and download and install your Smileys for Windows Messenger right away.