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| Time: 10:53 EST/15:53 GMT | News Source: Internet Week | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft's move to bring instant messaging rivals into its fold, along with the Redmond, Wash.-based developer's continued push to put presence into its core applications, gives it a good shot at becoming as big in IM as it is in enterprise e-mail with Exchange, a research firm said Wednesday. "Microsoft's ultimate goal is to own the end-user experience around real-time collaboration and communications," said Mike Gotta, a principal analyst at Meta Group. "And the AOL/Yahoo deal gives Microsoft a major leg up." |
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| #1 By 665 (64.151.11.238) at Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:38:50 AM |
| I only wish it gave users the ability to log in as invisible and better text formmating options, like the ability to have only one word bold, or green, etc. |
| #2 By 12071 (203.217.25.124) at Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:23:16 PM |
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#1 I'm sure it has nothing to do with being automatically installed and automatically starting up and asking you to register in XP =)
#3 http://www.msgplus.net/ |
| #3 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at Thursday, July 22, 2004 01:22:00 PM |
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#3--I agree; with regarding to formatting, I also wish it listed the person's ID and their message on the same line rather than putting them on separate lines, which wastes space. I also really wish it offered the ability to send offline messages, as with Yahoo. But one thing that I like about it over Yahoo is that the message archive is searchable. To me, that is a huge deficiency in Yahoo's Messenger.
Oh--and this is probably a personal preference thing--the emoticons in MSN Messenger are much worse than Yahoo's; Yahoo's seem to convey the desired intent better, even though they're smaller. I know you can customize them, but it would be preferable just to exchange them, I think. Never thought I'd be the emoticon type, but whaddya know. Thanks, Chris--I'll have to give that a whirl. Looks slick! Amazed that you use MSN, actually.... :P This post was edited by bluvg on Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 13:28. |
| #4 By 665 (64.151.11.238) at Thursday, July 22, 2004 01:41:59 PM |
| #3, yeah, but it is flaky sometimes (in older versions the other person also has to have Plus, etc.) and Plus always seems to make my system crash after sometime. I do like Plus, but I think these features should be native to MSN's client. |
| #5 By 3653 (63.162.177.143) at Thursday, July 22, 2004 03:51:28 PM |
| kabuki, the "users use the default" argument is old and tired. Move on. No one likes a whiner. |
| #6 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at Thursday, July 22, 2004 08:46:21 PM |
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#5 No problem, don't be too amazed, I use Messenger and ICQ because that what my friends/family use. They both have their pro's and con's, and I've never been bother to try out Trillian or one of those "all in one" IM's although many people swear by them.
#6 v3 is quite decent if you haven't upgraded it's worth a go. It's never crashed on me and really does add a load of features into Messenger. #8 And yet you keep whining about it being old and tired... |
| #7 By 1643 (204.210.28.138) at Friday, July 23, 2004 12:57:20 AM |
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Messenger Plus has the ability to send messages to those offline.
http://www.msgplus.net/ humor |
| #8 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at Friday, July 23, 2004 04:01:11 PM |
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I use AIM because that's what all my co-workers are on. It works well, and with the addition of DeadAIM the missing parts (and unwanted parts) are pretty much taken care of.
However, do all IM programs take this damned long to load up? AIM is probably responsible for 75% of my system-tray load time. TL |
| #9 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at Saturday, July 24, 2004 01:48:52 AM |
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Is anyone using LCS? We think that it has a lot of potential and are looking for a test "Federation" partner to help us test these features and inter/intra company presence awareness and trusted communications. It does require a significant investment in time, W2K3 and a couple of servers. We can use our CA to support SSL.
We have set up test Federations, but want to model how well one can, or cannot work with a distant IT crew to set it up successfully. Our own tests don't really allow for that kind of testing. We have noted the huge demand for private IM as a business communications tool. Businesses already use a lot of IM, but are very concerned about emerging threats to IM security. Thanks |
