I have just installed MSN Messenger 2009. It got a new interface. That is more fancy. There is a section at the bottom,"What's new?". You can see the latest changes of your friends' status. But I don't like it can't display the number of unread emails if the number is geater than 99. It will display "99+". I have around 300 unread emails. Then I never know any new emails arrived.