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Messenger 5 for Mac

TorbX said:
www.messengerformac.com said may 16th. Now it says "Coming soon" with fontsize 36 or so. People are mocking the author around on his own forum :eek:

I kinda like this guy. He is REALLY in to getting Messenger for Mac up to speed. Or up to "en par" with Messenger for XP 7.x. Dedikating a .mac-domain, organizing a petition (21702 signatures until now). Thats grat, although I doubt MS gives a sh*t.

Dude, if u read this, keep it up :cool: :D
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Maby that is why apple still has QT7 for windows on "commin soon" :p
 
JUST as i'm logged out of messenger for the 6th consecutive time in 10 minutes, and i decide to try aMSN, i see this. Get your ass into gear, ms, because im relying on you...
 
Just a quick comment from my own experience:

Every single person I know who has left the Mac platform, usually graphic design students, have done so because of the lack of IM support. Its mainly been msn messenger, but a few have left because of yahoo messengers lack of features to.

Most computer users that I know use their computer to chat and socialise with other people. Because of the paranoia in 'wincrap' world regarding viruses, people are reluctant to download programmes like Skype or even aim. Any assurance I give them that they wont get a virus from downloading the programmes is completely ignored as windoze users start having cold sweats at the thought of downloading an application! If it’s not the paranoia around catching a virus, it’s the anxiety of their system locking up or crashing that causes them to be reluctant to download anything new. I used to think they were having me on, or just being stubborn when they refused to download applications. I was put right by a friend of mine who switched a few years ago, he was a solicitor (lawyer) at the time. He assured me that winblows users paranoia is founded on bad experiences, and not pure nescience.

So msn updates with webcam support and all the bells and whistles that come with msn 7, would go along way to entice many UK users to the Mac platform. ichat is just redundant most of the time, I don’t know anyone in the UK who uses aim and I know two or three other Mac users. As for adium, I'm sure it’s a great app for many, but for me it’s a waste of time.

I did say quick comment didn’t I?? :D

Jay
 
tell them to use mercury messenger, it's nearly as fully featured as the pc version and has a few of it's own features, there is nothing as good as it, the only things you cant do is send video and use audio
 
SiliconAddict said:
Ummm not really since there are other clients that can do MSN. What would be huge would be Office....
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I think he means if they killed support and made it impossible for msn users to connect via a mac. This would hurt mac sales, as alot of the new kiddies switching are dependent on msn to chat with other kids.

Edit: don't want to start a debate, but Proteus is so much cooler then Adium.
 
rickvanr said:
I think he means if they killed support and made it impossible for msn users to connect via a mac. This would hurt mac sales, as alot of the new kiddies switching are dependent on msn to chat with other kids.

Edit: don't want to start a debate, but Proteus is so much cooler then Adium.
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Proteus isn't free, though - that's why I never bothered to try it.
 
has anyone used Messenger 7 for windows? ouch. seriously id rather live with the current Mac Messenger than use that sad example of software. i mean... an IM app where you can BUY pictures to send to another person? what?!

this is where Mac Messenger 5 comes in. base it on Messenger 6 (windows) but add little cool things like individual log-in noises for your mates, avatar speech bubbles for text (like Adium, but actually looking good). the key to a perfect messaging system isn't an awkward design with a horribly cluttered feel (Messenger 7) its lots of little and small trinkets. of course keeping logged in for more than 5 minutes will be useful too.

needless to say MSN7 has been removed from all my PC computers replaced with the much friendlier 6. good day microsoft!
 
I wouldn't want Microsoft Messenger to turn into MSN Messenger Seven. MSN M. 7 has to be the worst piece of software made. Look at the contact list with all of those tabs. Who really needs all of that cr@p in an I.M. program? Maybe a 13 year old girl... Whatever happen to simple text/audio/video chat?
 
For those of you who haven't tried it or perhaps haven't discovered the its wonderful customizability, I give you a screen shot of adium:

ps: check out this site to download different icons, sound sets, layouts...
http://adiumxtras.com/
 

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rickvanr said:
Edit: don't want to start a debate, but Proteus is so much cooler then Adium.
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I tried Proteus twice. The first time, I didn't really like it that much. A few (several?) versions later, I tried it again. It deleted about 10 people from my contact list! :eek: Specifically, everyone I'd added since the previous time I'd run it. I immediately opened the official client again, and they were gone out of there too :(

Needless to say, I'm not going to risk trying it a third time!
 
Nermal said:
I tried Proteus twice. The first time, I didn't really like it that much. A few (several?) versions later, I tried it again. It deleted about 10 people from my contact list! :eek: Specifically, everyone I'd added since the previous time I'd run it. I immediately opened the official client again, and they were gone out of there too :(

Needless to say, I'm not going to risk trying it a third time!
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Strangely enough, I've had that problem with Adium, but never with Proteus. I will admit the newest version of Adium is attractive, but I like to be able to turn off groups, and organize statuses by colour, and I hate the message window in Adium, I like the tabs on the side, not on the bottom. Hopefully iChat will start to kick butt, as Proteus' creator and lead, Justin Wood, was hired by Apple. Proteus isn't what it used to be since he's left either.
 
consider?!

Well I'm sorry but until MSN 5 is used by all my friends, supports AT LEAST 10 audio conversations and 4-way video calls using H:264 encoding over black table, has a brushed metal look, is integrated with Mail, address book iCal etc, can transfer files easily between Macs & PCs and sits neatly on my menu bar only when I need it, I'm not interested in getting it.

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a program out there like that though?! :p :rolleyes:
 
right now I'd accept any IM application that woould WORK. ever since I downloaded the update to 10.3.9 I have had no luck getting onto any messenger service (yahoo or MSN) --- yeah yeah, "get Tiger" :rolleyes:

Yahoo and MSN are two shades of suck when it comes to Mac platforms. good thing I'm not much into chatting on those, but I would like to figure out how to fix it.
BTW, Adium didn't work either.

edit: Also, OnyX didn't solve it but it sped things up a bit. The Java update on Apple was no use either.
totally bizarre.
 
iBlue said:
right now I'd accept any IM application that woould WORK. ever since I downloaded the update to 10.3.9 I have had no luck getting onto any messenger service (yahoo or MSN) --- yeah yeah, "get Tiger" :rolleyes:
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MSN worked fine for me when I had 10.3.9 :confused:
 
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I use Fire,it has a nice interface and a bunch of features,still no videochat but if you look on the site they have plans for it. Fire IMO is the best chatting program for the Mac Platform,Virtual PC is worth the money just for all the little programs like MSN Messenger,I'm going to get VPC very soon.
 
sgwigle3 said:
Well I'm sorry but until MSN 5 is used by all my friends, supports AT LEAST 10 audio conversations and 4-way video calls using H:264 encoding over black table, has a brushed metal look, is integrated with Mail, address book iCal etc, can transfer files easily between Macs & PCs and sits neatly on my menu bar only when I need it, I'm not interested in getting it.

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a program out there like that though?! :p :rolleyes:
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*nods at each point*

That, my friends, is why iChat pwns Adium for me.

Sucks for the Europeans on here, you should've gone onto the AIM bandwagon like the Americans did :D
 
Skype

cooknwitha said:
I gave up on MSN a while ago. I now use Skype. It does fast file transfers, IM chat and audio chat. All with Mac and Windows.
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I agree with this. Why bother to use M$N when Skype is available. To top it off, all sessions, both text and voice, are all encrypted. I have to travel to many different offices and rely on IM to chat to other engineers. Skype works wonders when most firewalls in offices block M$N.

It may not look like the best IM program inthe world but it does "just work"! :p
 
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