Today marks the premiere of a new program named Health Tech Today, which features informative interviews with some of the world's top health leaders; compelling health-related personal stories; and the latest new technology and IT innovations.  The show is hosted by Dr. Bill Crounse and the premiere episode features an interview with eHealth adovcate, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Here is the complete list of guests from the first episode. Archbishop Desmond Tutu – eHealth & human rights advocate, South Africa Dr. Kim Pittenger – MD, Medical Director, Virginia Mason, Kirkland, WA Don Detmer – MD, MA, Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Andrew Cull – CEO, Remote Medical International Cornelia Ruland - PhD, Center for Shared Decision Making & Nursing Research, Oslo, Norway Chris Otto – CEO & Founder, Halo Monitoring So what does this have to do with Messenger and why are we writing about it on the MessengerSays blog? Besides being a great show on a topic that many of us feel passionate about, we’re happy to say that Windows Live Messenger was used to conduct all of the remote vi

In September, we began asking users on 8.1 clients to upgrade to the latest version of messenger to ensure that they had the most up to-date and secure release.  (see post) Starting today, users on version 8.5 will also be required to upgrade before they can sign-in to the service.  Starting on the November 9th, users on Messenger 2009 (version 14) will need to upgrade their clients too.  Users who have already installed the latest version, which was released Aug 18th 2009 (Build: 14.0.8089.726),  will not be required to upgrade. If you are using Messenger 2009 and are curious what version you have, you can go to the Help –> About Menu. If you have any issues or questions during the upgrade process, here are the places you can go to get some answers. Troubleshooting Login Issues This post from the support team provides some guidance into how to determine what error you are getting and steps to resolve many of these. Online Help You can also try the online help pages.  On the left hand side, you can se

Over the past few weeks we have been asking customers using previous versions of Windows Live Messenger to upgrade to the latest version in order to ensure they had the most up-to-date and secure release.  If you’d like to learn more about this upgrade and why we’re doing this, please see the previous blog post, Upgrade Windows Live Messenger. Starting today, if you are using version 8.1, you will be required to upgrade before you will be able to sign-in.  After upgrading you will be able to sign-in and if you’re interested in learning more about the new release, please visit the Windows Live Messenger information page. We’ve seen comments from a few users stating that they have had some trouble signing-in after the upgrade and wanted to provide a few resources.  The following links can help you in case you’re having an issue. Troubleshooting Login Issues This post from the support team provides some guidance into how to determine what error you are getting and steps to resolve many of these. Online Help You can also try the online help pages.  On the left hand side, you can select ‘Table of Contents’ (near the bottom) and get information on troubleshooting and error codes.

We are currently experiencing technical issues that may cause you to have trouble sending IMs.  We are working quickly to fix this issue and apologize for the inconvenience. -The Windows Live Messenger Team