While Windows Live Messenger 2011 brings a lot of new features such as integration with external social networks and HD video chat, it also removes quite a few useful features that make the instant messaging platform stands out among competition and popular since era of MSN Messenger. One feature that lacks in Windows Live Messenger 2011 is block list.
Wait, what?
Block list allows a messenger user to ignore contacts, friends, buddies, colleagues, college mates, co-workers or persons forever, and user will not see the online or offline status of the blocked contacts, nor the blocked contacts will know that the person who block them has already online. In addition, any instant messages (IM) from the blocked contacts will not get delivered.
The block list has been removed in Windows Live Messenger (WLM) 2011. The removal of the feature causes all blocked contacts or persons to be suddenly visible and can see the online status of users who upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 2011.
I facepalmed so hard when I first learned this that I nearly broke my nose. I have no earthly idea what would possess Microsoft to even joke about this being a good idea. Yes, the most critical usability feature of Microsoft's instant messaging client, second only to the ability to send instant messages, has been deliberately removed. This is the most boneheaded thing to come out of Microsoft since Bob.
Now, you have to now choose to appear offline to every contact you already blocked in previous versions, and this is only a partial workaround.
Stupid.
Get another IM client, and get an account on another IM network. Tell your MSN contacts that this unbelievable thing is why you're leaving MSN.
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