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According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft's MSN department are preparing a "Public Preview" of MSN Messenger 6.0. This preview could be launched as soon as next week.

As we covered before, the preview will contain new emoticons, a My MSN Picture, Logging, Games and better Webcam support for Windows XP. As for the emoticons side of Messenger we've got hold of a few of the new emoticons that are going to be included in MSN Messenger 6.0. Some of them seem pointless, and some are even animated (I recommend you download them) but I'm sure you'll enjoy them nevertheless. Unfortunately we have no new screenshots of MSN Messenger 6.0 itself.

MSN Messenger 6.0 is still due to launch on July 17th as we exclusively revealed.

Download: Download MSN Messenger 6.0 smilies [ZIP format]

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#1 XeroByte on 15 May 2003 - 21:25

edit: 've read too fast the news...

#2 xStainDx on 15 May 2003 - 21:27

i wanna download the software! cream, hook it up!

#3 Chicane-UK on 15 May 2003 - 21:29

Watch out for that Neowin & Neobond stalker dude... I am sure he is gonna report those emoticons to Microsoft..

#4 Byron_Hinson on 15 May 2003 - 21:36

Won't matter if you download it or not as you won't get it working til someone changes the registry keys etc from the internal IM site authentication to the regular ones like Winbeta used to when it leaked before.

(6 replies) #5 Banjo on 15 May 2003 - 21:44

Is it just me or do most of these smilies look like they were modified/drawn in paint?

#5.1 creamhackered on 15 May 2003 - 21:46

If you're trying to say they're are fake why don't you say it...

Last edited by 98 on 15 May 2003 - 21:51

#5.2 Banjo on 15 May 2003 - 21:50

No, I wasn't say that they're fake, I was saying that they dont appear to be as high quality as the current ones.

#5.3 creamhackered on 15 May 2003 - 21:50

Look exactly the same to me...

#5.4 Bizzard on 15 May 2003 - 21:52

I agree with creamhackered

they look the same and even better, i like the cry emoticon(moves)

#5.5 Dessimat0r on 15 May 2003 - 23:42

These new emoticons looks crap, in my opinion. I thought Microsoft had some designers and artists in their midsts, or do they choose not to use their talents?

#5.6 pctuk on 16 May 2003 - 05:30

They look fine to me - same quality as the old icons. I like them.

(3 replies) #6 andrewfee on 15 May 2003 - 21:53

What purpose does a sheep emoticon serve !???

#6.1 creamhackered on 15 May 2003 - 21:54

For the welsh jokes?

Now they're gonna get teased constantly.

#6.2 longwilli on 15 May 2003 - 22:01

lol true, and the four eyes joke with the smile with glasses

#6.3 Napalm on 16 May 2003 - 08:33

Great. More Welsh "jokes" in my direction . . . as if I don't get enough at work.

#7 xDEATHx on 15 May 2003 - 21:55

for all them farmers out there

hahaha

#8 wildliquid on 15 May 2003 - 22:10

msn 6 sounds great... i hope they change the emoticons though

(1 reply) #9 Xeon™ on 15 May 2003 - 22:12

hook us up cream!

#9.1 rob.derosa on 15 May 2003 - 22:22

Who says he has it

(4 replies) #10 Smash on 15 May 2003 - 22:16

Is it just me or is MSN Messenger getting more and more bloated with useless features over time? In a few years, it will be as useless and memory-hungry as ICQ

#10.1 Avenger on 15 May 2003 - 23:21

You want fewer features? Youre going to love Windows Messenger 5 then. Look for it when it goes public.

#10.2 Smash on 15 May 2003 - 23:59

That's why I'm still using windows messenger 4

. Making Windows Messenger a kind of "lite version" of MSN msg would be a great idea though.

#10.3 net-cruizer on 16 May 2003 - 01:29

[neoquote=#10.0 by Smash]Is it just me or is MSN Messenger getting more and more bloated with useless features over time? In a few years, it will be as useless and memory-hungry as ICQ

[/neoquote] Features? what features? MSN Messenger doesn't have anything. Everything in ICQ was very useful but if a feature wasn't needed, it didn't have to be installed. And it wasn't bloated. MS could definitely use some pointers from the creators of ICQ, they know how to make some damb good software. But I use Windows Messenger 5 anyways, becuz if I'm gonna use a plain Messenger with no feature, it might as well be Windows Messenger and not MSN Messenger.

#10.4 Avenger on 16 May 2003 - 02:55

[neoquote=#10.2 by Smash]That's why I'm still using windows messenger 4

. Making Windows Messenger a kind of "lite version" of MSN msg would be a great idea though.[/neoquote] Indeed. I'm going to keep using Windows Messenger 4.7. It has/does everthing I need it to do. Windows Messenger 5 is being designed more for corporate users, and not home users. [Lets not get that argument started, ugh.]

(3 replies) #11 Rocker on 15 May 2003 - 22:18

I want to download them but its in rar format.How can I do this?

#11.1 Bizzard on 15 May 2003 - 22:26

[neoquote=#11.0 by Rocker]I want to download them but its in rar format.How can I do this?

[/neoquote] Mess.be is posting them now as single emoticons.

#11.2 DarkLordSouron on 15 May 2003 - 22:27

[/neoquote] use winrar to open them

#11.3 creamhackered on 15 May 2003 - 22:31

Changed to zip, to make it easier for people

#12 mipra on 15 May 2003 - 22:48

cant wait for the release

#13 Sim31 on 15 May 2003 - 22:54

grab winrar at [URL=http://www.rarlabs.com]Rarlabs[/URL] a very nice program better then winzip

Hope you enjoy

#14 Quick Reply on 15 May 2003 - 23:03

nice one cream, i hope that some of them get improved before the final release/beta release, the geek one is crap

(1 reply) #15 nathanintu on 16 May 2003 - 01:42

They look fake...

#15.1 creamhackered on 16 May 2003 - 07:29

Alrighty then

#16 AshUK on 16 May 2003 - 02:37

They look great, but have you noticed the crying icon is a mixture of the old smiley icons but together in motion?

#17 dwergs on 16 May 2003 - 03:58

You think they look bad or plain fake? Show us you can do better

There's a little compo going on at [URL=http://www.mess.be]Mess with MSN Messenger[/URL] for the ultimate msn messenger 6 emoticon

#18 mr_da3m0n on 16 May 2003 - 05:30

Uhm... the last one looks like he's got a stick up his ass...

(1 reply) #19 TeeBall_Mark on 16 May 2003 - 05:43

hey, where do u put these emoticons? Surely they have a special place/folder. Otherwise....til the preview comes out, this is useless.

#19.1 Geo on 16 May 2003 - 10:46

Cant you make the decision yourself?, just put them in your my docuents, or your desktop even

#20 pruit on 16 May 2003 - 05:55

Yahhh new emotion that great

#21 altezza on 16 May 2003 - 06:13

Great emoticons but seem rather useless for most.

#22 DrAwesome on 16 May 2003 - 14:44

Finally! An icon of a sheep! Microsoft is now back in the IM game!

(2 replies) #23 Buitoni on 16 May 2003 - 15:09

*REMOVED for violation of Neowin's community rules*

Last edited by 98 on 16 May 2003 - 19:18

#23.1 whistlerxp on 16 May 2003 - 15:50

That page has ads for pr0n

#23.2 BigBlueBall on 16 May 2003 - 17:20

And no new screenshots, just crappy edited versions of the ones we've already seen. What a waste!

#24 timothy on 16 May 2003 - 17:39

Here is a small constructed one, how it would look like if you were using it: [URL=http://www.mdt.tech.nhl.nl/users/groen106/msn6.jpg]Simulated screenshot[/URL] * NOTE * Its a fake, I constructed it

* /NOTE *

#25 Drimacus on 16 May 2003 - 22:13

is there any way to make those emoticons work in msn messenger 5 ?

#26 cesardrgn on 17 May 2003 - 14:44

they look great...

(2 replies) #27 Darkness2k on 17 May 2003 - 22:34

What happens if a Windows Messenger 4 or 5 (or MSN Messenger 5), talks to a MSN messenger 6 then? Do Windows messager users still get the standard emoticons if they get sent, say, a sheep icon from a MSN 6 image?

#27.1 shockz on 18 May 2003 - 18:26

[neoquote=#27.0 by Darkness2k]What happens if a Windows Messenger 4 or 5 (or MSN Messenger 5), talks to a MSN messenger 6 then? Do Windows messager users still get the standard emoticons if they get sent, say, a sheep icon from a MSN 6 image?[/neoquote] It will probably just show a symbol, or maybe it will send a code for it to download the image everytime its used.

#27.2 Darkness2k on 18 May 2003 - 23:00

Hmm possibly.... we'll see anyway... maybe MSN 6 won't talk to people that have a different messenger (but I seriously doubt that lol)

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