Windows Live™ Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video—plus new ways to connect and share documents with almost magical ease. As always, it is free to download Messenger and use most of its features.

Key Features

Call their phones. Call their PCs.
Call your friends’ mobile or landline phones. It’s affordable both within the US and internationally. And calling someone’s PC is always free.

See them on the screen
Show and tell: Grab a webcam and start a video conversation within minutes.

Share stuff
Set up a Sharing Folder with a friend. Drop in photos and other stuff, as many as your computer can handle. See it even when one of you is offline.

Soon: talk to your Yahoo! friends, too
With Windows Live Messenger, you can soon connect with your Yahoo! Messenger with Voice contacts. Forget needing multiple accounts to talk to your friends. Do it all from Windows Live Messenger. The world’s largest IM network is about to get bigger – and better.