Messenger Group, developed with Windows Live Messenger platform, is a service for a group of Messenger users chatting together in real time. Maybe you think that Windows Live Messenger supports multi-conversation, but this multi-conversation is temporary, will be dismissed with the finish of conversation.

Compared with multi-conversation, Messenger Group is an existing group with each member in, members can talk together at any time without creating a temporary multi-conversation. Messenger Group makes a group of people connecting closer, no matter whether they are on your Messenger contact list. You can create a group for a team, a department or a company to chat online together.
Now if you have a Windows Live ID, then go to Messenger Group website (http://www.messengergroupchat.com) to create your own Messenger Group.
  • Free to create Messenger Groups
  • Each Messenger Group can have 900 members at most
  • Group manager can change group name and display picture
  • Group manager can set an administrator to help manage group
  • Group member can change their nickname in the group

At present there are more than three million users and 500,000 Messenger groups have been created.

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News source: Messenger Group official website


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(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by kezzzs on 28 Apr 2008 - 19:28
Great. More annoying group conversations. Nine tenths of the time it boils my blood when I get invited plunged, into a multi-person conversation because:
1) It's usually always when I'm busy doing work
2) If it isn't while doing work it's while I'm playing a full screen game (and WLM hasn't changed my status to busy) so I constantly get new message noises.
3) The people who normally start them are just doing it to annoy people so therefore when you close the window - BOOM - you've been dragged back into it again by the same idiot with no way of stopping it happen besides from blocking the user.

Admittedly I have used them in the past to arrange nights out with friends but the bad outweighs the good by far.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by williamhook on 28 Apr 2008 - 19:30
(kezzzs said @ #1)
Great. More annoying group conversations. Nine tenths of the time it boils my blood when I get invited plunged, into a multi-person conversation because:
1) It's usually always when I'm busy doing work
2) If it isn't while doing work it's while I'm playing a full screen game (and WLM hasn't changed my status to busy) so I constantly get new message noises.
3) The people who normally start them are just doing it to annoy people so therefore when you close the window - BOOM - you've been dragged back into it again by the same idiot with no way of stopping it happen besides from blocking the user.

Admittedly I have used them in the past to arrange nights out with friends but the bad outweighs the good by far.

^What he said. I wish WLM would actually ask you if you want to be spammed like hell, like Steam does.
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by +Dakkaroth on 28 Apr 2008 - 19:53
That's why I keep friends and business on two separate accounts.
Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by Smigit on 29 Apr 2008 - 02:27
(Dakkaroth said @ #1.2)
That's why I keep friends and business on two separate accounts.
ditto. As for the other points just go to "appear offline" if your gaming. If the people annoy you so much why have them on your list?
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by n_K on 28 Apr 2008 - 19:53
Well, I'm glad my hacked MSN 7.0 will no longer have group conversations then, Good riddens.
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by Shiranui on 29 Apr 2008 - 06:35
(n_K said @ #2)
Well, I'm glad my hacked MSN 7.0 will no longer have group conversations then, Good riddens.


R-I-D-D-A-N-C-E
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by gtox on 28 Apr 2008 - 19:55
If only someone had come up with this earlier... oh wait, someone did... 20 frickin' years ago!!
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by PsychoDoughBoy on 29 Apr 2008 - 00:55
(gtox said @ #3)
If only someone had come up with this earlier... oh wait, someone did... 20 frickin' years ago!!


That's exactly what I thought. =/ This looks suspisciously like IRC, but without the multitude of cross-platform clients.
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by yottabytewizard on 29 Apr 2008 - 03:24
(PsychoDoughBoy said @ #3.1)
(gtox said @ #3)
If only someone had come up with this earlier... oh wait, someone did... 20 frickin' years ago!!


That's exactly what I thought. =/ This looks suspisciously like IRC, but without the multitude of cross-platform clients.


Indeed, just like IRC, but without bots?
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Chris123NT on 28 Apr 2008 - 21:10
Does the wording of this post sound gramatically awkward to anyone else or is it just me? lol
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by SniperX on 29 Apr 2008 - 08:42
No kidding. It reads like a translation, and a very poor one at that.

Maybe you think that Windows Live Messenger supports multi-conversation, but this multi-conversation is temporary, will be dismissed with the finish of conversation.


Eh?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by El Sid on 28 Apr 2008 - 23:14
And so did the famous chatroom return!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by duphus on 29 Apr 2008 - 03:51
I wouldn't expect this kind of junk on the frontpage of neowin. It's been done before, and didn't go anywhere because of lack of interest, though I do have to say this one looks like it will get some marketing (hey neowin), so who knows.

Group chat in IM is bull****, I'd rather use something specifically designed for that (IRC as already mentioned). It is poorly implemented in WLM and the fact no improvements have been made to it for as long as I remember just show Microsoft's commitment (or lack of).
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by +BigCheese on 29 Apr 2008 - 19:17
This sounds basically like Google Talk Party Chat
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