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
You can login and check the contact list.
What does not
You're unable to chat because you can not see what you're writing or what others are writing to you. Also the UI looks really bad.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Winks
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Check the How to.
| 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 | 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 |
| 201 | Igowin: masking problem - image is not transparent | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 4781 | MSN Silently cannot connect to network | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 5971 | MSN Messenger 7.5 has no username, password area | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 8300 | Title bar shown in window style that does not have one | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8555 | No large display pictures in MSN Messenger 7.0 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 10059 | Windows Live Messenger 8.x login boxes unusable | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 12965 | Weird border in MSN Messenger when hiding tittle bar | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 13196 | Icons with inverted color or without transparent background | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 14252 | Windows Live Messenger 8.1 just show a blue box. GdipImageGetFrameCount, GdipImageGetFrameDimensionsList and GdipImageSelectActiveFrame unimplemented | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 14472 | msn messenger 8.5 final cannot connect | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 14473 | msn 8.5 final does not show the initial screen | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 16769 | MSN Messenger 7.0 Don't redraw the chat window correctly | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 18668 | WLM 8.5 is very slow | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 18669 | Display picture in WLM 8.5 is blank | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 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) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 18936 | Windows Live Messanger 8.5 crashes when receiving new message | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 19004 | Windows Live Messenger 8.5 and 2009 installer fail to start | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 21186 | Windows Live Messenger: No text in the chat window from version 8 and up | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 22437 | Internet Download Manager (IDM) 5.18 can't connect to Internet | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 24280 | WLM 8.5 crash at login | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 29902 | Windows Live Messenger 8.5 does login, error 81000378 | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 29942 | Windows Live Messenger 8.5, lock in chat windows | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
How to install:
The combined Windows Live Installer does not work. Therefore, to install the software, do the following:
