MSN messenger 5.0

[bazzler]

Does anyone know what the full feature set of messenger 5.0 will be? ive seen a pic of it , and the only new practical feature is that now you can set your own pic and see pc messenger users pics. No games, no custom smileys, no webcam. Lame.

 

[maya]

Does anyone know what the full feature set of messenger 5.0 will be? ive seen a pic of it , and the only new practical feature is that now you can set your own pic and see pc messenger users pics. No games, no custom smileys, no webcam. Lame.

I believe there is also better VNC support now inversion 5.0. For businesses this is a big thing.


M$ always seems to loose out the audio and webcam features on Mac, this is how they can make Windows "look more capable" in this regard. 🙄

Anyhow though it would be nice, another client might pick up the feature. And I believe iChat will have Jabber support that is a +. 🙂

 

[mfacey]

I believe there is also better VNC support now inversion 5.0. For businesses this is a big thing.


M$ always seems to loose out the audio and webcam features on Mac, this is how they can make Windows "look more capable" in this regard. 🙄

Anyhow though it would be nice, another client might pick up the feature. And I believe iChat will have Jabber support that is a +. 🙂

What is Jabber?

 

[maya]

What is Jabber?

http://www.jabber.org/about/overview.html


Fun reading. 🙂

 

[mkrishnan]

So MS is going to release an MSN 5 for Mac even though they're at 6.something for PCs? That seems strange from their usual way of doing things.... 🙁

 

[mfacey]

http://www.jabber.org/about/overview.html


Fun reading. 🙂

Hmmm yet another IM client. So what does it do that MSN/AIM/Yahoo/etc. can't?

I would love to see msn support in iChat but i somehow I feel it won't happen soon. MSN is a great IM program, IF you're using windows. I just use AdiumX which is only marginally better than MSN for mac. Both are a bit lacking in features. But, hey, its better than nothing right? 🙄

 

[notjustjay]

Adium

Yeah, I use Adium now too (after trying a few other ones like Proteus and Fire). Adium supports MSN pictures and of course it also connects me to AIM, Yahoo and ICQ. It's everything I need except of course webcam chatting.