Microsoft today released Messenger for Mac 5.1 which, according to Microsoft, “makes it easy to take advantage of the full power of instant messaging. By using Messenger for Mac, you can see when your friends, family, and coworkers and associates at other companies are online and then communicate with them instantly.”
“Messenger for Mac offers two types of communication services — a personal account and a corporate account. A personal account works with the MSN® Messenger service on the Microsoft Passport Network. Contacts that you add to your personal account include friends and family members. A corporate account uses the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server service. Contacts that you add to your corporate account include coworkers who are in the same company as you and associates at other companies. Instant message conversations with other corporate account users are not limited to corporate users who have Messenger for Mac installed on their computers. With the federation features enabled on Live Communications Server, users can also have instant message conversations with users who have other instant messaging services, such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger, and iChat users who are signed in with AOL accounts,” Microsoft’s “Mactopia” website states.
More info and download links for various languages here.
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another watered down MS product for the Mac.. missing features and poor performance, it’s amazing what they get away with because people let them.
This must be a maintenance update. What’s new?
So many windows users use msn for there video conferencing. Mac’s don’t have that feature!!
First post. Is that because absolutely no one is interested in Microsoft products killing off their Mac from the inside?
Where’s the universal binary?
i just wish i could use ichat instead, my friends suck
If your company does not host a Microsoft Office Live Communications Server, this does not apply to you. If you do not know what that server app is, then your company probably doesn’t have one.
Go to jabber.org and set up accounts for people in your company, and install freeware to do the same thing. PSI for PC, Mac and Linux is a good one.
two words:
get adium
Brandon,
Some of the most intelligent words I have ever heard.
Spread the word.
Get Adium
Which self-respecting mac-based corporation is going to use “Microsoft Office Live Communications Server service”?
Although I think adium is also very good, I actually prefer proteus… having conversations tabbed on the side in a drawer just seems much more natural than putting them down the bottom to me.
I’m not really sure why so many more people use adium.
http://www.proteusx.com/
Adium is great, but doesn’t support video, as the Windows version of Messenger does. Frankly I’m surprised the Redmond Retards didn’t release a video capable Mac version as well as a Universal Binary.
Instead, get Mercury Messenger. It supports video on the MSN network and works beautifully on the Mac.
MDN Word: “fear” as in Microsoft has fear of a Mac planet…
Yes Get Adium, so much better than the Messenger crap and its still in beta!
Hopefully Adium will be developed further and in time will support audio and video conferencing. in the mean time there is always <a >Mercury</a>
Mercury messenger is bruuuuutaal.
What’s wrong with good ol’ iChat? I love the word bubbles!
What’s a microsoft?
“So many windows users use msn for there video conferencing. Mac’s don’t have that feature!!”
Uhhh, David, have you ever heard of iChat AV???
(or a grammar check)
nah, Adium looks way cooler than Proteus, way more customizable
just use fire http://fire.sourceforge.net/ everything works well
MSN Messenger for Windows blows iChat out of the water, but the Mac version is worthless. Without video and audio, don’t even bother me with updates. iChat is so far behind MSN Messenger for Windows, it’s ridiculous.
How is iChat behind Winblows Messenger?
Fuck Microsoft……
Get Adium!
Sorted…….
Cubert,
Emoticons, integrated bells and whistles, user base, interface, game integration, web integration, you name it. The one person I iChatted with was my mom. She was using AIM and windows. Then video/audio stopped working. No one seems to know why. So bottom line is that I use iChat for nothing anymore. It’s useless. Sure, chatting with another iChat user using broadband and a Mac is great, but I have no one who fits that. Everyone I know uses MSN for Windows. Apple simply doesn’t get the Web. Case in point: iChat, Mail and .Mac, all lame, anemic, and years behind competitors in terms of features. I currently have NO chat options to allow video and audio to anyone I care about. It’s pathetic.
Yes, people, get Adium.
Proud to be M$-free.
MW: hard, as in it’s not hard to make your Mac M$-free (unless you’re a corporate slave and required to use some M$ junk)
Yes, people, get Adium.
Proud to be M$-free.
MW: hard, as in it’s not hard to make your Mac M$-free (unless you’re a corporate slave and required to use some M$ junk)