MSN Automatically Changing Name?

[richardsim7]

WTF?! :s

Earlier my brother signed in from his laptop, his name is usually Mike - Laptop, however it just signed in as Mike, which I thought was odd

Later today I found my name as Richard instead of Rich. Another board member dh5 found his name to be Daniel instead of Dan everytime we signed in.

Is microsoft changing our names as we sign in? This is VERY annoying!! :angry:

-Rich-

[tehC0D3R3AP3R]

Woah !

That's odd.Never happened to me.Maybe the name you chosen were reserved for Microsoft Employees :p

[richardsim7]

I've had this account for 8 years, I doubt it :p

-Rich-

[Lechio]

Yep, happening here too. Reverted to another nick, like 5 times...

[Admiral Michael]

Still Admiral Michael here.

[richardsim7]

Well from the few replies I'd say it's only affecting Europeans? :s

-Rich-

[daiv_]

mine hasnt changed !

[Darksoft]

It does happen. It happened to my friend today. Everyday he signs in from his cellphone.. today, his name was magically changed to that of his profile.

It also happened to another friend like a month ago. Her name just changed when she logged in.

It's very wierd.

[buckboii]

Try changing your name from your MSN/hotmail profile. My MSN nickname is Jackson but my hotmail page is bob dole, and sometimes my msn nickname is bob dole. Good luck

[sibot]

MSN tries to retrieve your last updated name. Say for example, XYZ on Comp-A, when I sign in from Comp-B, it will check your live profile for updates and update the nick accordingly - XYZ.

Same goes for display pictures, Messenger Live retrieves them, that's why mostly you'll notice your last status message, nick, display picture being used while signing in from a different machine.

But on failure to do so, it uses your first name as your nick AND use one of the default MSN display pictures.

[richardsim7]

Except I'm not using WLM :p

I'm using Adium, but it happened on both meebo.com and BeejiveIM (iPhone) :(

-Rich-

[richardsim7]

Argh, it even does it when I come back from Idle!! :angry:

-Rich-

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I'd say the issue is the Adium/libpurple implementation of the MSN/WLM protocol rather than with Microsoft.

If you want a reliable Mac client for WLM, slap MS into finishing Messenger:Mac 8.

[_bobcat_ Veteran]

Yeah a friend of mine has shown up with some old MSN name for two of us .. from her end she couldn't see it.

Edit: I'm the only one using Adium, and mine seems to be fine.

[richardsim7]

Depends if they're using custom nicknames or not :\

-Rich-