Live Messenger for Xbox 360

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Xbox 360 owners will soon be able to chat with their friends on Windows Live Messenger. This should happen on 7th May as part of the free Xbox 360 “spring update”. Users will be able to talk to one another using a virtual on-screen keyboard, a USB keyboard, or the new QWERTY Text Input Device.

Integration with Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger. Before the dark times. Before the empire) will happen on 7th May as part of the free Xbox 360 “spring update”, which will also introduce a number of minor interface tweaks. As usual, they’re the sort of things that you hadn’t necessarily thought of, but can imagine finding useful.

7th May, of course, is the day that “Games for Windows - LIVE” launches in the US (18th May in Europe), introducing a raft of features that bind the Xbox 360 and PC together, but it sounds like the spring update’s Live Messenger integration will allow gamers to see their friends’ gamertags at a glance whether they have upgraded to Windows Vista and “Games for Windows - LIVE” or not

Source: Eurogamer.net

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