Application Details:
| Version: | 8.5 (Windows Live Messenger) |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://messenger.msn.com |
| Votes: | 12 |
| Latest Rating: | Bronze |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.8-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
- Logging in
- Adding contacts
- Chatting (sending photos, emotes, nudges)
What does not
- By default, the login boxes don't work.
- Sometimes, the application crashes when you try to pick someone on your contacts list. Ignore the crash message, but don't close it.
- Voice calls and recordings
- Winks don't display the animation
- Handwriting
Workarounds
To get login form boxes to work:
winetricks corefonts gdiplus msls31 msxml3 riched20 riched30 tahoma flash
What was not tested
- Video and voice chat (don't work)
- Recieving voice messages
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Using the Escargot pre-patched MSI installer from https://escargot.log1p.xyz/.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Fedora 27 x86_64 | May 31 2018 | 3.8-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | knuxfanwin8 | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 6.x "Squeeze" | May 18 2012 | 1.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 13 2010 | 1.2-rc7 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 30 2010 | 1.2-rc2 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 29 2010 | 1.1.42 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
How to install:
The combined Windows Live Installer does not work. Therefore, to install the software, do the following:
