MSN Messenger 5.0

[SPeedY_B]

Looks like we should be seeing MSN Messenger 5 quite soon:

Microsoft Messenger 5.0 for Mac (previously MSN Messenger for Mac) has been confirmed for release within the next 7 days.

Sources indicate the development cycle for the application has ended and the documentation for the application has been completed and finalised slating the new version of Messenger for Mac to be released as early as Monday 16th May.

As with previous releases, Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit has a tendancy to release updates on a Monday however they have been known on several occasions to delay updating the site to reflect updates until a Tuesday, however we will publish the link to download the new version of messenger for mac as soon as it becomes available.

Source: http://r-james.myby.co.uk/messenger/article.php?id=021

Will be giving it a try as soon as it's released, having seen some early screen-shots, it looks quite nice

 

[muzikool]

Interesting. I might have to check it out.

 

[Kush]

looks nice but no display pic yet? ill tell my friend to get it

 

[SPeedY_B]

looks nice but no display pic yet? ill tell my friend to get it

Did you even click the link?

 

[Kush]

yeah i did, hmm the title pic wasnt that one it was only a convo when i saw it, i hadnt checked the feature comparison. nice ill sign the petition. btw do online petitions really have an effect anything?

 

[Geffy]

oh yay, display pictures..... thats something thats hard to do....

seriously MSN:mac could be so much better, though the main features I want is Audio/Video chat, granted Video could be hard to pull off, but it can be done. Mercury is proving that. Even if its just recieving. Audio, come on I cant see how that could be hard. The Microsoft Mac Business Unit is the largest mac software house outside Apple itself, but they probably dont care about messenger as it doesnt make money like virtual pc and office do

mainly I hope they have fixed the problem where msn will randomly just drop connections. the windows version is more stable :$

 

[SPeedY_B]

mafia, petitions mean ****. People just like to think they're doing something, however it's a very very rare occurrence that a large company will ever take notice of an online petition.

Geffy, it does make money, the ad banners aren't there for fun
The video in MSN uses a proprietary logitech codec (not a clue what audio's carried over.. Skype kick's it's ass anyway ) however that's actually been reverse engineered into a lovely C-library for all to use, and even converted into Java by the Mercury developer, so there's really no excuse for that.

Apparently we'll see official audio and video in MSN:Mac by 2007, until then I guess we just stick to those lovely open-source offerings. With regards to MSN 5 though... seems it's a no show, unless it appears some time tonight (weird time-zone things etc )

 

[Geffy]

Geffy, it does make money, the ad banners aren't there for fun

What ad banners, I dont got no ad banners

 

[SPeedY_B]

Because you have Office:Mac installed.

 

[Geffy]

ahh, I have had office installed since day one so I had assumed it was always like that

hoorah for office

 

[SPeedY_B]

there's an option on the menu bar, I think under 'display' or 'view' or something similar, to simply toggle the ad banner.. if you don't have office installed (I don't as I don't really need it, and it fecks fonts up ) then that option is grayed out.

 

[X-Istence]

there's an option on the menu bar, I think under 'display' or 'view' or something similar, to simply toggle the ad banner.. if you don't have office installed (I don't as I don't really need it, and it fecks fonts up ) then that option is grayed out.

There is no registry to save the setting, so with a simple strace you could potentially find out where the setting is hidden, and use it for everyone

 

[SPeedY_B]

That would involve installing Office though, which I refuse to do as it completely knobs up all your fonts. If it really is that simple I'm surprised that no one else has done it, and I can't seem to find anything about it on the net...