Windows Live Messenger - What Happened?

[ienhz]

honestly, the program looks like garbage now and should be redesigned. 7.0 looked pretty good and they should've kept that sort of look instead of making it all huge, bubbly and almost vista-like (and the program still looks out of place even with vista)

[war]

Beta is starting up again now.. :)

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=660928

[Ambroos]

Indeed, the latest version looks unclean... Apatch fixes up a lot but the icons + the color scheme ruin it... It needs to be brighter, clearer and less fancy borders that take over space only.

I also still have that one on my pc, though, untabbed and A-Patched. Awesome how new it feels!

[PyX]

people love to bitch about anything that MS make

if it is apple that create WLM then all of you will says who great it is

I'm used to swear so much about this application that no.

I think people can recognize what's good and bad from Apple. I consider myself a fanboy, yet there's a couple of things from Apple that I don't like much. Ok, not a lot, but yeah.

For the record, I'm also using it daily and also consider it the app that sucks the most in everything I have.

I'm on the Mac and I use Adium because it is a little bit better according to me (it's still retarded a lot because it's using an old version of msn protocol and doesn't have all the features).

Basically, the full MSN on windows is bloated with crap and bugs. The stripped-down versions of MSN usually lack a few interesting features. It can be direct filer transferring, video conference, sending custom emoticons, offline messaging, handwriting, etc.

As I said somewhere else, stop changing the GUI, it was fine in MSN6, it had this 'special look' to it already, and squash all those nasty bugs man!

[EduardValencia]

Wich one is cleaner.......

[redeemed]

^Wow, WLM 9 looks (Y)(Y) :yes:

[random_n]

I don't know... I remember applying some patch or other to WLM last year (which I still believe is the current version), and that version still works fine. I don't see how much cleaner it could possibly get. I think the only feature I could want is tabbed chat windows (even though I hardly ever use the thing).

[redeemed]

You can get tabbed chats with MSG Plus Live.

Tabbed Chats

Use a tabbed web browser? why not use the same thing for your conversations? All your chat windows can now be grouped into a better single one. Different positions, different options, this feature is yours to customize.

http://www.msgpluslive.net/features/

[PyX]

Wich one is cleaner.......

Without a doubt, it's the second one. I mean, yeah it could be tweaked a lot, but globally it's an interface that I liked back in the time and that I still like today.

I especially hate that glow all over the text.

[CyberManifest]

I for one, love the WLM. I use the handwriting feature a lot, and since switching to Mac, I've really missed WLM. I wish MS would come up with something similar for us Mac-users.

Is this >> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/emai...ngerformac.html << what you're looking for?

[JOHW]

Wich one is cleaner.......

I prefer the 1st one :)

[Smethead]

Is this >> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/emai...ngerformac.html << what you're looking for?

Messenger:mac is even more a piece of **** than WLM

[MulletRobZ]

Yuck! Why can't Microsoft keep it simple and clean with the Windows version of Messenger like what they did for the Mac version?

[Mandy Pecly]

I like Windows Live Messenger, though I don't use it regularly.

But sometimes I think it's trying to win from Nero the prize of "bloatware of the century". :p

[_dandy_]

We want them to build a client that is sleek, no bloat, no winks, no eppilepsy-inducing nudges, etc... (no I'm not eppileptic but I have heard from people that are that the nudge shake CAN actually cause seizures.

The problem is that new releases tend to include more useless features, not have them removed. Thus, I'm perfectly happy not replacing something that already works.

[richardsim7]

Yuck! Why can't Microsoft keep it simple and clean with the Windows version of Messenger like what they did for the Mac version?

Because they haven't updated it for a long long time :p

-Rich-