Microsoft has released Microsoft Messenger for Mac 7 which Microsoft claims “is an integrated communications client that enables you to communicate with contacts within and outside your organization.”
Built for corporate Mac users on Office Communications Server 2007, Messenger for Mac 7 gives co-workers new ways to communicate easily with each other in different locations or time zones. Additionally, personal users will find a few improvements for managing their contact lists.
Messenger for Mac 7 is a Universal application.
More info and download link (21MB) here.
sorry to be the dissenting voice on this one but I’ve actually been waiting for this. Being an in-house designer on a Mac with everyone else on PCs going “why can’t I see you on messenger” and having to explain why the Mac version of messenger doesn’t support the exchange server isn’t fun. Also, it just gives them more ammo to make fun of me for using a mac. SO YES!!!! I’m happy about this one.
seriously, why do microsoft bother?
I will never install this pos bloated and virus ridden shit on my mac.
Do I care?
Nope!
@uh oh,
No apology necessary – You Go!
100% of the contacts who’ve requested to IM me from Europe have inquired about MSN
That thing is demonic on a pc, why would I want to infect my mac with it?
I use a client called Mercury Messenger which pretty much has parity with MSN for Windows. This is just as much a piece of crap as version 6 was.
ONLY AMERICA USES AOL IM.
Microsoft is FAR more universal than “AMERICA” Online
The rest of the world uses MSN and Skype for Video.
Seriously, this isn’t a bad thing… but it would be nice to have video.
@Nunya
“Why on earth do we need this?”
I think the answer is in the MDN column:
“Built for corporate Mac users on Office Communications Server 2007 …”
This is about MS lock-in corporate-wide.
Of course home users will be better of with the multi-protocol Adium X:
http://www.adiumx.com/
And best off persuading friends to switch to something that uses Jabber, as that’s open.
Just to clarify, MS Messenger is very popular outside the US, mostly for text messaging, but for video/audio at least on the Mac, Skype i think is far more popular given that it is multiplaform (win, max, linux)
And according to MS (after what 5 years?) this personal version will have A/V capabilities this year.
Here in Stockholm (the home of the syndrome) most use MSN for chat and Skype for video. At work we are still on PC’s and using Notes 7 and the instant message function sucks, so we send mass updates via MSN. By having Messenger on my iMac at home I can maintain contact on days when I work from home.
In my experience text chat works pretty much the same whether using iChat, Skype or one of the many flavors that MS offers (Live, MSN, Messenger). Haven’t tried Jabber yet, but I’ll look into it as well. The main thing for me is being able to reach those who I need to reach, no matter which network they are on.
Messenger for Windows is amazing! Messenger for Mac w/o video is a WASTE OF HARD DRIVE SPACE!
Damn, MS made the MSN7 logo uglier than before. Why is there a white outline on it??? Idiots. Luckily I only installed it to see what the fuss was about. Back to Adium it is for me!
Boy, are some people here twitchy! What’s most hilarious is the suggestion by (I presume fellow Eastern European) Reality Check to “get a passport and visit…”, only to follow that with a fairly succinct insult of an “…average obese American”!
If you had read my post properly, you would have found that nowhere in that post have I implied that either of the two groups of countries (the also politically incorrectly called “Third World”, as well as the Eastern Europe) are ignorant, uneducated or in any way inferior than any other country or countries in the world.
If my first paragraph was somewhat unclear (“… third world… including Eastern Europe…”), in the second paragraph it was obvious that I had referred to these two groups separately.
While most of us from any of the “Eastern European” countries don’t feel comfortable being lumped together with the poor countries of sub-Saharan Africa, or even the developing countries of Latin America or South-East Asia, the fact remains that our economies have some years to go before we could comfortably call ourselves the developed world.
My reasoning was that economy may be at least part of the reason why MSN seems to be disproportionately popular in these countries.
There. And if you haven’t noticed, I didn’t even try to offend you here… Perhaps it’s my Eastern European education that you claim is so superior to American…?
@ iamdj
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Glad you caught that!
there aint no a/v… looks like the old version to me
BUT WHY?
Whooopdie fuckin’ doo.