Yesterday I tried Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta.

Works pretty well, fast, nice interface (not to childish), and the ability to sign in with the same accounts onto multiple computers.

But there is an issue with the custom emoticons.

They get preserved on upgrade (luckily, they did it right this time), but they don’t display if you use them, not in the chat window itself, and not in the text input box.

Messenger 8

Messenger 9

Let’s hope they fix this in the future release

Since Adobe released Flash 10 I am unable to upload files with the Flash uploader, it seems they changed the API in order to make it more ‘secure’.

They do not allow any openfiledialogs to be opened without explicit click from the user.

This breaks a lot of usability.

I don’t know why they would break something like that, because the user still has to select a file and click ‘Open’. Because of some stupid user they break it for all users.

More info about this (unresolved, and propbably never resolvable) issue.