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Live Messenger 8.5 update no longer supported on XP x64

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:02 am
by Istik
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/02/2 ... -on-xp-x64

A special note for those of you running Messenger 8.5 Beta on Windows XP 64-bit or Windows 2003 Server: the final version of Messenger 8.5 will not install or run on your OS. We don’t want you to get stuck out in the cold so you will not receive the mandatory upgrade to the final version. However, these operating systems won’t be supported by future Messenger versions. You may stay on your current beta version, or to get to a more stable final version we recommend that you uninstall Messenger 8.5 and go back to Messenger 8.1.


Another ploy to get people to downgrade to vista?

Apparently people at the above link have got it to install and work without much trouble.