Chat online with friends and colleagues.

Send instant messages to any of your contacts who are online. Determine at a glance which friends are available to talk.
Have a conversation with a group of friends. Invite up to 20 friends to participate in the same conversation.
See the latest information about your contacts. Click your contacts' status icons to see a contact card that displays their current information and, if they choose to provide it, a link to their MSN Spaces site.
See and hear your contacts. Use the new Video Conversation feature to make communicating with video clearer and sharper than ever. Use full-screen conferencing for enhanced immersion.
Send and receive text messages with a mobile device. Use your computer to exchange instant messages with many models of mobile devices. You can also send messages to MSN Direct watch.
Send and receive instant messages with your mobile contacts. Enhanced mobile messaging lets you chat with a mobile contact in the same way that chat with a regular PC contact. This feature varies depending upon your region, your contact's mobile carrier and mobile device.
Send a voice clip to express yourself personally. Sometimes a message doesn't convey what you really feel. Now you can speak your instant message instead of typing it. Voice clips are small, 15-second voice clips that you send to your contacts.
Save your conversations. Keep those important ideas and funny exchanges as long as you want by saving all your MSN Messenger conversations automatically. This feature requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.