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
Main window
Signing in and out (only in Windows 2000 mode)
Contacts list and status
Conversation windows opens... you can also chat!
Emoticons & Nudges
Webcam
What does not
The nickname is not up to dated...
Personal images aren't shown.
Very very slow...
Signing in doesn't work in WinXP or WinVista modes.
Special characters in nicknames (probably UTF-8)
Ad tabs in the main window
Workarounds
What was not tested
Games
Audio conversation
Winks
Options
Audio/Video configuration
File transfers
Multichat
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
It's quite tricky to install. Do winetricks with the following: corefonts flash gecko gdiplus msls31 msxml3 riched20 riched30 tahoma Take Install_{508CE775-4BA4-4748-82DF-FE28DA9F03B0}.msi from your WinXP partition with this program installed or search for it using Google. do $ msiexec /i Install_{508CE775-4BA4-4748-82DF-FE28DA9F03B0}.msi Use winecfg to configure msnmsgr.exe for running in Win2000 mode. Enjoy!
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | 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 | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 13 2010 | 1.2-rc7 | Yes | Yes | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 30 2010 | 1.2-rc2 | Yes | Yes | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 29 2010 | 1.1.42 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 18889 | Multiple isolation-aware applications fail to load (MSN Messenger Live 2009, Lync 2010, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Quicken 201X)(embedded PE manifest search should support ISOLATIONAWARE_MANIFEST_RESOURCE_ID) | STAGED | View | |
| 29902 | Windows Live Messenger 8.5 does login, error 81000378 | NEW | View | |
| 29942 | Windows Live Messenger 8.5, lock in chat windows | NEW | View |
How to install:
The combined Windows Live Installer does not work. Therefore, to install the software, do the following:
