Microsoft Messenger 5 stuck in 1995

AIM and Yahoo are barely used in the UK. Teens here (me included) are more likely to ask for your MSN address than your phone number.

Yep, here in Belgium, MSN has indeed become a verb... Sad but true.. If I ask someone to send me an "instant message", nobody knows what I mean. "*sigh* MSN me" But I think I found something most people understand... "see you online". To most people it means "see you on MSN", and for me it doesn't matter too much as my adium buddy list has all protocols...

Perhaps the author wasn't really using any net programs in 1995, but all the chat programs (i.e. IRC) I used then simply had a flashing cursor at the end of each line. Since you were in a terminal window (or worse, simply using a terminal!), all you could do was to hit Enter/Return to send your message. Clicking a send button didn't come around until years later. Oh, yeah, Micro$oft sucks, Macs teh rule, you're a troll, no you're a troll, yada yada yada.

Why waste time with this! I don't care! I really don't care!

Maybe their new UI guy was hired away from Hasbro. It does have that "My First Messenger" look to it.

You know that Skpe also has a huge Send button in its IM window, right? Basically the identical UI problem. It's true that it's pretty lame to put it there.

For those that are interested in video, the current beta release of aMsn which can be downloaded here: http://forums.cocoaforge.com I don't know if it supports transmitting video, i haven't splashed out on an iSight, and my intel camera isn't supported by the third party webcam drivers. But i've had zero problems with watching other peoples. It also supports the new custom emoticons and animations. I like it.

The button is there in the windows version since when using a pen to WRITE your message (which i don't think is available on any other messaging program) a send button is very useful! ...prob just trying to keep UI similar accross platforms.

there will never be video in messanger as long as ms says that video and audio 'require' specific windows api's. and AIM is only big in the states. as stated, msn is huge in canada and europe.

**Hands are Raised** But I still use it rather than adium, proteus and iChat simply because it seems to work best on my computer (iMac G5 still running panther :( ahwell)