msn beta's

I went to use WebMessenger today and was suprised to see that it asked me what status I wanted to be before I signed into the system. Handy for logging onto the system to see who is on and not letting everyone else you are online at the same time (although if everyone did this, the chat system would be very quiet. Microsoft have been pretty busy with their software updates this week with the MSN Messenger Beta released, hotmail changes, Spaces.msn.com - their blogging service whose homepage looks absolutely awful in firefox, and last but not least a critical update for windows, namely an IE patch for the latest vulnerability discovered a month ago.