The new Windows Live Messenger Beta has some new features. One of them is the ability to set your mood. Why the fuck you’d want to do this is beyond us, but Steven has a go at explaining why it might be relevant. Yeah, possibly I guess. Oh, and you’ll need a web cam if you want to use it.

It’s all about making the IM experience more social I guess, and we can’t really fault Microsoft there with this feature.

In other news about the new IM Beta (it’s been out for two weeks or so now) the UI has had a nice revamp – it is certainly more enjoyable to use – feels like bubblegum.

Thank God for A-Patch.

We all love Windows Messenger, but those fucking ads drive us insane. Thanks to ars technica we were alerted to the latest A-Patch that gets rid of them right away.