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MSN Messenger 7.0 for Mac Released

Well they must have had all thir engineers working on Vista, that cen be the only reason for that being so ******* *******!

Then they switched them to MSN7 - explains the parity with Vista!.

Microsoft will never give Mac versions equal parity anymore, the moment they realised OSX market share was eating into Windows sales was the time development on MSN and Oraffice stopped.

If they made all versions equal I bet more people would swap to OSX.
 
newappleboy said:
Hmm. I've yet to be able to get MSN through Parallels to realize the iSight is there. Could you explain how I should go about locating it and setting it up? Pretty please? *puppy dog eyes*
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All I did was:

Installed Windows XP through Parallels Setup, then once XP booted into the Desktop for the first time Parallels installed all the drivers etc.

Are you sure you installed the Parallels Tools (or whatever it is called)?
 
Kilamite said:
All I did was:

Installed Windows XP through Parallels Setup, then once XP booted into the Desktop for the first time Parallels installed all the drivers etc.

Are you sure you installed the Parallels Tools (or whatever it is called)?
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Yeah I did, but maybe it's because I'm in Vista and not XP. Maybe Vista doesn't support the video crossover. *shrug* I wish this weren't the case, but oh well.

It's obvious we can't rely on MS for support, so hopefully Adium will get on the ball soon. Would love to be able to video chat with AIM/yahoo/MSN contacts all through the same client.
 
newappleboy said:
Yeah I did, but maybe it's because I'm in Vista and not XP. Maybe Vista doesn't support the video crossover. *shrug* I wish this weren't the case, but oh well.

It's obvious we can't rely on MS for support, so hopefully Adium will get on the ball soon. Would love to be able to video chat with AIM/yahoo/MSN contacts all through the same client.
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It doesn't seem like it will come to Adium soon.

http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/VoiceAndVideo
 
newappleboy said:
Yeah I did, but maybe it's because I'm in Vista and not XP. Maybe Vista doesn't support the video crossover. *shrug* I wish this weren't the case, but oh well.
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I've never installed Vista so couldn't give you any directions.

Check out the Parallel's support forum and see if its a known issue or whether it is your setup.
 
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While I totally agree this is a joke of an update and its ridiculous that the only way corporate users can get the A/V access is if they use Microsoft's own server software... I have gotten the Windows counterpart to use A/V on my iMac. Didn't have to do anything special... just worked... :apple:
 
could someone explain to me what in the hell are "bonjour users". all of a sudden there is a group with this heading (i have contacts set to online/offline). EDIT: nevermind, i found out. what a dumb idea

also, in the search contacts field, if you search for a contact but then remove the search entrance, the contact stays in the search box. highly annoying :confused:
 
Hahahaha what a joke, but really could we expect any more from Microtard?

Really, I'd rather stick with Adium. At least it's being updated regularly and there IS a solution for A/V, even if it's not integrated (MeBeam. While not integrated, it works perfectly and anyone can use it. Mac users and PC users - because it's Flash/Browser-based).

Seriously, I've given up ALL hope on MSN for Mac. It stinked before and it stinks now. I don't see why we thought it wouldn't suck at version 7, really. Maybe we're just too optimistic.

Adium it will always be for me.
 
According to comments from MS around the time Office 2008 came out, they are working internally on a complete re-write of Messenger that will bring it to feature parity with the Windows version, but it's not slated to appear in the wild until 2009 sometime.

Don't quote me on it though, I'm going from memory.
 
killmoms said:
According to comments from MS around the time Office 2008 came out, they are working internally on a complete re-write of Messenger that will bring it to feature parity with the Windows version, but it's not slated to appear in the wild until 2009 sometime.

Don't quote me on it though, I'm going from memory.
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Which means they'll say they're right on track when they have a private Alpha in December '09
 
they probably spend too much time watching mac vs. pc ads. lol, seriously, Im curious how they bring themselves up and get slight motivation to develop anything for mac...;)
 
All that money, all that supposed talent and this is what they come up with. Really really poor effort.
 
You can send messages now when you're "Appear Offline".

I don't see winks, nudges or games.

Does anyone know if you can make your personal account a "corporate" one to do AV chat?
 
dvince2 said:
Does anyone know if you can make your personal account a "corporate" one to do AV chat?
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I don't think it works this way... there isn't a setting that says, "look at me, I'm a fancy corporate user." Corporate MSN networks use a different server architecture that's privately hosted by the corporation in question. The AV chatting in this version of Messenger works when you're logged into a corporate server. It's probably an entirely different API structure, with some tweaking for the different assumption set on a corporate system (e.g. high bandwidth).
 
Wow... just wow

MSN/Windows Live Messenger is pretty much everything people here (and in the rest of Western Europe too, I've heard) use. I hate telling people 'sorry, I can't receive offline messages, I didn't know about that' or 'wait, I'll switch to my parents' Windows PC to see your webcam video'. And those are the only two features I need: offline messaging and video. I don't need audio (there's Skype), I don't need winks, nudges, games or anything like that. And Adium isn't an option since it doesn't support those two either.
 
aMSN supports video, but not audio, and it's a CPU whore. Mercury Messenger also supports video but not audio, and it's heinously Linux-like in its interface—conforms to NONE of OS X's conventions—but it won't spin up your fans to ridiculous speeds.

MSN is definitely the weakest on OS X, and I feel like it's intentional on Microsoft's part, considering that outside the U.S. it is the number one IM software.
 
mkrishnan said:
I don't think it works this way... there isn't a setting that says, "look at me, I'm a fancy corporate user." Corporate MSN networks use a different server architecture that's privately hosted by the corporation in question. The AV chatting in this version of Messenger works when you're logged into a corporate server. It's probably an entirely different API structure, with some tweaking for the different assumption set on a corporate system (e.g. high bandwidth).
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You wont get that to work, they are essentially seperate products with Corporate requiring an Exchange server to connect to, but mashed together so that it appears one app.

We use Office messenger here at work, and ok, its good from an office point of view (being able to tell what people are doing through calendar/msn linking), but I now end up with MSNM installed and Office Messenger installed and both running, the only plus side is MS appear to have rolled it properlly into one product on the Mac, although i have not tried to have both corp and personal both logged in on the Mac, I won't get that to work without some custom built Mac VPN software that the company i work for just wont ever make.
 
Thank you Mac BU for Messenger 6.1

A big shout out to the Mac BU for this MINOR update. :apple:
 
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