With the release of Windows Live Messenger 8.1 approaching, former BETA testers received an official invitation to join the 8.1 BETA yesterday.

So what can we expect from the next release of Live Messenger? Although there is no official word yet, we can probably expect the Yahoo Messenger interoperability to be finalized and a few more bugs to be squashed.

The BETA could be out in as little as 2 weeks, while we can probably expect to see the final release in 2-3 months time.

For all the news about Live Messenger check out our Messenger 8 section.