Comments on: Is Windows Live Messenger Your Friend?

By: JoeJunior

JoeJunior — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:29:04 +0000

they forced me to upgrade from 7.5 and now it sodding doesn’t work. i am forced to use this by idiotic friends who abandoned ICQ for this dead messenger.

Why would anyone even consider PAYING for an ad-free version of this client when its so awful?

There are good IM clients that are free and ad-free at that.

By: alisa

alisa — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:16:49 +0000

they made me change to this windows live messenger and i think that is totally unfair! i don’t like being forced to switch not one bit!

By: jen

jen — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:06:43 +0000

my hotmail doesn’t load at all! i accidently clicked ’sign me up to windows live’ or something, now my account refuses to load :@ !

By: Dave Siefert

Dave Siefert — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:08:39 +0000

I just bought a web cam for me and my son. He is in the military. Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger secure or pirvate? I don’t want people peeping?

By: human

human — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:42:27 +0000

i hate windows live messenger so much damnnit,, im going to stick with 7.5 for probably years to come…

By: Genti

Genti — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:09:20 +0000

It would be really nice if I can use all my accounts like AIM, MSN from Yahoo Messenger. Is that too much to ask?
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By: ivan marcin

ivan marcin — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:04:09 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Advertisements are a necesary evil, and keeps messenger free, but those flash ads with sound are the most annoying thing ever. You are working , watching movies or whatever and suddenly an AD sound starts playing . Once I was listening music and turned the volumen down from the application rather than the master volumen, when the messenger ad starts playing, it almost kills my speakers and made me jump out from my chair lol, that was scary.

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:39:45 +0000

I agree with pretty much every point in this post. Most importantly: Why can’t we just pay for it to get rid of the ads?!

What I like is that it doesn’t feel like a teenage girls bedroom anymore. It is a lot more “professional” from an aesthetic sense, at default.

By: Angry chat addict

Angry chat addict — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:09:51 +0000

I just read your blog post about Windows Live Messenger and couldn’t agree more.

All the ads, non-reconfigurability, and crap like that are what keep me using gaim, Trillian, or Adium – I think of chat as a simple method of reaching out to people. I want it to be as configurable and tweakable as possible so I can make my experience be all about a box of text with an input bar at the bottom. Nothing else – no “winks”, “nudges” or fucking giant send buttons that are large enough to hit from across the room with my tablets digitizer pen like a dart…

Seriously Microsoft – look at Adium and base your chat on that.

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Alex Barnett blog : Feedback on Live Messenger — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:29:11 +0000

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By: Julian Bond

Julian Bond — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:16:55 +0000

Lord Pi. Thanks for the useful info. Which I’ll turn into a gripe ;-)
Developers are critical to lock in and growth. It’s a shame some of that stuff is so hard to find. And actually this applies all the way through. The information about what Messenger does and doesn’t do seems to be scattered all over the place. With the lanch of the Live brand, MS could usefully bring it all back together into one consistent web site.

Many moons ago in V4.7, Messenger used to have an open SIP gateway. There were partners (like BT) but you could also put in a 3rd party service like FWD. I was a bit put off to discover that their external voice links were now via Verizon.

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