Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Universal Binary
Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0
Microsoft has just released its first Universal application: Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0. New in 6.0, besides the fact that it is Universal, are the following features:- You can chat with Yahoo! Messenger buddies
- Add status messages
- You can display what is currently playing in iTunes
- Custom emoticons
- Spotlight integration
- spell checking
- I can't set a 'note' like I can on the Windows version (unless I am just daft)
- Every time you initiate a chat with someone you get a long winded message telling you not to give out your credit card number to people on IM
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Stephen Downing said 5:11PM on 9-27-2006
Still no video, what a waste of time it was even releasing this MS!
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fero said 5:15PM on 9-27-2006
Here you go Scott: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050923123756815&lsrc=osxh
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Jim said 5:49PM on 9-27-2006
You still don't seem to be able to pick your status before you sign in (so you can appear offline). Either I'm retarded or it's something else for MS to fix...
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Sticky said 5:46PM on 9-27-2006
Well at least yours works! when ever I double click someone to chat to, theres a pause and then MSN just closes and brings up the OSX error report.
I'm on Panther.
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lee said 5:29PM on 9-27-2006
yeah the lack of video is something that means i wont be straying from aMSN
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Scott McNulty said 5:28PM on 9-27-2006
Thanks, fero!
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Andre Reis said 5:31PM on 9-27-2006
Stephen,
In case you haven't already, read this post at the Mac Mojo blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2006/09/27/774149.aspx
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Stephen Downing said 5:34PM on 9-27-2006
As far as I'm concerned I'll believe it when I see it Andre but thanks for the link!
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Daniel D said 6:17PM on 9-27-2006
Yeah okay I will be sticking with Adium thanks anyway microsoft! Also I use mercury messenger for msn video also I hope that you can use .exe applications when leapord comes out so I can use the real msn otherwise I might have to start using crossover or something.
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Daniel said 5:47PM on 9-27-2006
"Microsoft, if you are listening,"... yeah, right. And monkeys might fly out my ass.
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Irma said 5:49PM on 9-27-2006
And still no audio chat :(
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Sticky said 5:51PM on 9-27-2006
Jim you can if you don't auto sign in, click sign in, or sign in with different account....
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John said 6:04PM on 9-27-2006
Ah My font won't change! Darn.
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hibbleton said 6:08PM on 9-27-2006
It's easy to get rid of the credit card warning. Open up your Applications folder (or wherever Messenger.app is stored). Navigate through Contents, to Resources, to English.lproj. In that folder, find InstantMessageWindow.strings and open it with a text editor. At the bottom, it will say something along the lines of IMWarning = "Don't give out your credit card infoz, omg!";
change it to:
IMWarning = "";
voila!
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pkny said 6:11PM on 9-27-2006
how about adding web cam support!!
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Jim said 6:14PM on 9-27-2006
Hey thanks Sticky! It always auto-signed in before I had a chance to do anything. This means I can lurk again, hurrah!
Does it also mean I have to apologise to MS? :-(
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RP said 7:47PM on 9-27-2006
I want nudges and Rrrings! on the mac versions. those are cool and useful
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Peter said 8:22PM on 9-27-2006
Åctually the first universal binary released by Microsoft was the intellimouse explorer driver package and pref pane, a few months ago. Yes, I know, fascinating.
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Andrea said 10:00PM on 9-27-2006
OMG It's awfull. I can't believe how AWFULL it is! The BIG BLUE send button makes my eyes hurt :( I'll stick with Adium!
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axel said 4:10AM on 9-28-2006
One word: ADIUM
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