Microsoft Messenger for Mac 7

Not to be funny or anything but one would expect a huge jump from version 3 to 7 would be more than changing the shitty gradient on the Contact List window and changing the crap MSN icon in the dock to something even crapper!

For a company with such an absurdly big turnover they really are taking the fucking piss!

I'm another one who doesn't really get why they would release the corporate only..hmm. The one feature I would like to see, and see other protocols adopt is the shared folders feature of messenger(for windows) Did they add that to the mac client yet? (doubtful)

I too am disappointed non-commercial Mac users are left out of NC Windows-only feature use, especially after all of these years. I'm running a small business and don't want or need to run a Windows-based server, so I'm looking at video-conferencing with Acrobat Connect - but that still leaves me not able to hook up with my MSN-lovin' friends who won't install an AIM client. As a Mac user who supports MS efforts (most of the time), I'm tiring of playing the waiting game for feature parity.

Aware of Apple's royalty payments to AOL to get iChat to work on their network, I hope that Apple steps up to get a conduit from iChat to the Messenger network - and I would pay for it. Today. Now. Click on the "Pay Now" button.

I understand that MS doesn't want to disrupt their network of paying customers - I'm sure MS uses the same justification for supplying Messenger on Windows as Apple does for iChat. How do we get Apple to construct the approved pipes from iChat - a great application - to the Messenger network? I'm guessing grumbling a lot and offering to pay a few bucks... Sign me up!

they can't just add offline messages. why? because they still use the same ancient protocol for years they have been using before. i honestly don't know about the corporate version but fact is the personal one hasn't changed one bit since the last version, except maybe for the uglyness factor and the windows live messenger text everywhere. i wish ppl would just stop using msn altogether and go for yahoo or whatever but meh. at least their beta works more or less.

Just to be clear, the reason why video is only available on corporate accounts is because it is using a different protocol from that which personal Windows MSN clients use. So it is not possible to "cheat" or "hack" it and it's not a scam by Microsoft to piss off mac users (believe me they want you to be using it).

Video is a useless feature to me anyways. What disappoints me is that there isn't even a remote effort to make this program decent. There's no support for tabbed conversation windows. There's no effort to update the design. I don't see support for winks or games or any of the other cheesy features my friends always use but don't work for me.

It just sucks.

It sucks! Basically nothing new. Not even to be able to receive offline messages. Sucks big time...

Since my company hasn't upgraded to LCS 2007 I can't use this release at all. I can't believe they couldn't at least build it to connect to the older releases of LCS and disable the unsupported features when they did; that's just sad.

For those asking why people still use MSN, it IS because everyone I know still uses it... aside from Canada and Australia (as RobK said), MSN is de facto in Taiwan (where I live) and much of south east Asia, Skype has only a niche market (mainly for people who want to save money on calls to mobiles and/or land lines), and AIM/iChat is practically unheard of... AOL just set up a Taiwan site a few days ago...

the icon is just horrible. the white surroundings...

i think i found a way to cheat the system.. but i have nobody login in my account that i can test with here is what u do.. log in right.. next click help---all the way on the top.. than type video on the search.. now click on the second one and now a box will pop saying (the the email of a person who you want to start the video)... can someone please test... and let me know asap.. thanks