Put the Contacts Gadget on the Side Bar.

"vanilla" <vanilla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I agree with you. I liked being able to double-click on a contact to
>initiate sending them a message. I dislike the separate window business.
>Perhaps this will be an option we can select in some future update.