Seems like finally things are falling into place for Live Messenger. Previous beta which was called 'Messenger Beta' gave me hell lof of problems, such as crashing several times a day resulting in stopping me from using it for couple of weeks.

This time the UI looks very good. Speed and memory usage is considarably enhanced compared to the previous beta. One nice feature which I like very much is in the messaging window when one user sends several messages at once ... lets say me ... withing saying 'W# says' for each time, it displays messages one by one. Also I like the new icons.

However there is no enhancements for the emoticions. I wonder whether they are planning to upgrade the look of the emoticons. Current list looks pretty old