MSN Messenger 5.0 for Mac announced!

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Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit has announced several updates to products at Macworld Conference & Expo on Tuesday, including MSN Messenger 5.0.

Version 5.0 of MSN Messenger for Mac will be released in the first half of 2005, adding several new features, like improved security and the ability to add users listed in a company?s Global Address List (GAL) or corporate address book. It will also enable users to view both personal and corporate messaging accounts from one location.

Other improvements remain unknown but we're hoping there will be plenty. As you can judge yourself from this feature comparison table, MSN Messenger for Mac has a lot to catch up with if it wants to match up with the Windows client.

Source: MacCentral via Mess with MSN Messenger

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Wow - it does actually look better than the Windows version. Finally, my friends can stop pestering me about my display picture, but I can still tell them that I can't get the 'games to work on my computer'.

I'm impressed Microsoft. Shame I'm about to ditch most of the Office suite for iWork, but you can't win them all, can you?

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ya, what a VERY fair poll. its like microsoft.com having a poll "what OS do you use"

"Mac"

"Windows XP"

"linux / other"

of cource windows is gonna win. they got that same poll on MSN Messenger for Mac. Thats so bias!

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That even looks better than the upcoming msn7

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You could just download a skin to have it like that....

They deserve the damn update. Its about time for MS to give Mac users the chance of compatibility with Windows users.

Next: MSN Messenger for Linux :D :laugh:

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You could just download a skin to have it like that....

They deserve the damn update. Its about time for MS to give Mac users the chance of compatibility with Windows users.

Next: MSN Messenger for Linux  :D  :laugh:

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A simple skin is not going to add the functionality. By looks I dont mean the appareance, but the functionaltiy.

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A simple skin is not going to add the functionality.  By looks I dont mean the appareance, but the functionaltiy.

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Hmmm im confused hehe

How can looks = functionality?

looks are apparance.....Maybe i mistook the context of what you were saying. I said it looks better than the upcoming MSN. By apparence yes it does and i said that it could be changed with a skin. By looks as features, MSN 7 brings little changes while MSN 5 Mac brings big changes from its last (and current) version. I think you mean the second one right..................

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I'm not a MAC user, but it sounds nice. It's really funny that Microsoft creates software for the Macintosh  :p

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Bill Gates aka Microsoft started out in life writing software for Apple, then the giants compared to the Microsoft minnows. Strange twist of fate really. Maybe if the bold Bill hadn't stolen the Macintosh iconic operating system for his Windows, things would be a lot different.....

That aside, Microsoft's 20 years of writing Mac software, you'd think that they would at least ensure Messenger for Mac had all the fuctionality of its Windows equivalent. If they can produce better versions of their Office suite on the Mac, there is no reason Messenger should lag behind..

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