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Oh kei, Well I've read this whole thread, And I must say Im confused. I mean it started in May, and this is July. And I mean maybe I'm a little confused but I dont see MSN 5 for mac's...
So if someone could please post and let me know what is happening. That'd be great..
Take Care,
Allison
Oh kei, Well I've read this whole thread, And I must say Im confused. I mean it started in May, and this is July. And I mean maybe I'm a little confused but I dont see MSN 5 for mac's...
So if someone could please post and let me know what is happening. That'd be great..
Take Care,
Allison
xNew_MSNx said:
Oh kei, Well I've read this whole thread, And I must say Im confused. I mean it started in May, and this is July. And I mean maybe I'm a little confused but I dont see MSN 5 for mac's...
So if someone could please post and let me know what is happening. That'd be great..
Take Care,
Allison
You summed it up. MSN 5 for Mac was promised anytime after WWDC by a Microsoft representative, however we're yet to see anything of it!
though it doesn't have webcam, the skype service is pretty cool - mp3 quality audio chat without lag, plus IM and file transfer that actually works in all the versions (os x / linux / windows). not a lot of people use it though (read: nobody i know, aside from the friend i convinced to install it so i could try out the audio chat).
drsuse said:
Skype is indeed very cool. I heard Niklas Zennström speak at a VoIP Conference back in April and he was definitely the highlight of the conference. Amazing speaker, excellent vision. I think you're wrong though when you say not a lot of people use it. There have been over 140 million downloads of the Skype software, so someone out there has to be using it! The SkypeIn and SkypeOut services are growing quite quickly as well.
Darwin said:The representative mentioned month or months in her little speech
If you can call that garble a "speech"
May 16th, first half 2005, June, July. Hmm... ok, where is it? Did microsoft forget about MSN 5 for Mac and just decide to waste time drawing all over XP to make it look like a new version?
They'll give Mac just enough stuff to keep us vaguely in the loop with the "Windows-centric world". If they truly think that Apple can be defeated, they will cut all ports to the Mac - but I think with all Apple's (and faithful developers') efforts, we are now fully compatible. We just need to wait for Leopard and, uh, it's identical-yet-Windows-branded counterpart to come out, so Leopard can PWN everything! HAHAHAHAHAHA!BlizzardBomb said:
It could be August 9th now - see the article on here: http://www.mess.be/ (scroll down to July 28th)
Thats what sites are pointing to, but theres a catch. It's only for corporate networks running a Windows Exchange Server (I think), either way its only for corporate networks. So no normal home user could make use of the multiple protocols.Nermal said:Either someone's fantasising or MS wants to get people off Adium and onto MSN
MSN 5 tomorrow ??
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1225
Check this out guys.. MSN 5 tomorrow morning.
Let see if it's real this time.
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1225
Check this out guys.. MSN 5 tomorrow morning.
Let see if it's real this time.
akshea said:
Already submitted this bit of news to MacRumors myself when I saw it - let's hope it's true this time!
Well, its now the 9th! Here's to hoping it comes out today!!!
Its sure lookin' good from New Zealand!
Its sure lookin' good from New Zealand!
im_to_hyper said:Well, its now the 9th! Here's to hoping it comes out today!!!
Its sure lookin' good from New Zealand!
Hope so, looking forward to the new Messenger, can't wait to start showing off my "corporate" tab and user pictures. They will be so handy when trying to talk to friends and family across the globe - certainly more handy than ooo, webcam support or voice chatting.
Yeah I could use iChat but nobody I know uses AIM or Jabber, I think they're only popular in the states.
Chundles said:
I agree, I paid for the privilege of having iChat (via a .Mac account) only to find everyone I know uses MSN and refuse to change over to AIM.
This year I won't be re-subscribing to .Mac (I'll use my free AIM account thank you) and hopefully we'll have the new MSN up tomorrow like mentioned earlier here.
Bern said:
Yeah i kinda agree too in the first part, but i think .Mac is not just all about iChat.
"Control the status of your personal and business accounts by synchronizing them or setting one to busy while the other one indicates you are online."
This is something really new that i've not seen before, even in the windows platform, not even the MSN Messenger 7.5 Beta.