Tabs tell Windows XP users where to go

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Thanks |CEMAN who posted this in our Back page news section. He stumbled on yet another striking evidence that Windows Messenger will be phased out. Windows XP users have been waiting patiently for the Windows Messenger update since November when MSN 8 and MSN Messenger 5 was released to the public for Windows PC's other than (the no longer supported Windows 95 and) Windows XP. Windows XP users were greeted with update notifications only to later realize that MSN Messenger was installed next to Windows Messenger which was in many cases still active and present on the system. Little thought -it seems, had gone into the migration for Windows XP users. Was it to be a Windows Messenger update or not? The web-based newsgroups for Windows Messenger seemed to be split on this decision. Some saying Yes others saying No. No official response has been announced. Only that pop-up reminders and now disappearing tabs seem to be serving as an un-official decision from Redmond.

It has also been mentioned a few times that Microsoft were forced to drop Windows Messenger integration in Windows XP and all future OS (like Longhorn and Blackcomb) but while searching for this in official documents on Presspass.com I couldn't come up with the goods. Only statements that Windows Messenger was NOT forced on users of Windows XP any differently than a AOL INTERNET connection and its AIM service.

So is Windows Messenger going? Are we going to be forced to take on board MSN Messenger that really isn't tied in as Windows Messenger (Remote Assistance is absent on MSN 5 for XP) If anyone can share more on this subject maybe we can try to get an answer once and for all.

I have included quotations and a screen-shot of what tab users of Windows Messenger get now.

View: Civil Action No. 98-1232 (CKK) FINAL JUDGMENT (November 12, 2002)

View: Windows XP users are directed here (MSN Messenger)

News source: Microsoft PressPass (unless stated otherwise)

#1 creamhackered on 01 Jan 2003 - 15:40

Like I told ya ages ago, Windows Messenger is ending

(2 replies) #2 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#2.1 Neobond on 01 Jan 2003 - 16:08

This is the problem, you can't un-install it. You can only remove links to it in XP

#2.2 Neobond on 01 Jan 2003 - 17:12

Yea we know this trick to un-install, but its not the "right" or correct way to do it from Windows XP which is my point. I also know you can remove IE and DirectX and Windows Media Player from Windows, but you wont find the instructions anywhere on Microsoft.

(2 replies) #3 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#3.1 creamhackered on 01 Jan 2003 - 16:56

[neoquote=#6.0 by warr]windows messenger is another monopoly act by microsoft. it is the same way that IE was done. if you see it, you may not care about that. if you really know what this windows messenger means on xpee, thinking of the way IE became dominant. well, i doubt windows users realize this.

[/neoquote] I don't think any computer user will understand what you just said

#3.2 Neobond on 01 Jan 2003 - 17:09

[quote]windows messenger is another monopoly act by microsoft.[/quote] I disagree, why shouldn't Microsoft be able to ship its Operating Systems with communication software that links up its userbase. The only thing that might be monopolistic is that they allow Mac, Linux and another platform to login to its service (which I think is more of a convienience than a monopoly, [b]but hey who am I right? I'm just the customer[/b] - you know, the customers most US states, AOL, Lindows and any other 2 bit crappy company that I'd never BUY software from are tryng to "protect" from Microsofts dominance.

(1 reply) #4 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#4.1 Neobond on 02 Jan 2003 - 11:15

I concur with all those points and its the reason I have gone back to 4.7 and mvp is Microsoft Verified Partner I believe.

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