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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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)
You will download it pudboys! Now! When you’re done with Jobs crank in your mouth, you will then learn how much Gate’s Hog feels in your mouth. Enjoy.
As I’m in the UK and my girlfriend is in Australia at the moment, the best contact we’ve had over the last few months is over video IM. I use iChat AV, she uses AIM (not the triton version) on XP. It works perfectly for us – although the windoze software needs to be reinstalled every so often to keep the video running smoothly. Even that seems to be a fairly simple task for my non-computer-geeky partner.
When I had to spend the weekend at my father’s house, I had to resort to using Messenger for Windows on his XP PC and felt that I’d stepped back in time. OK, it might have whistles & bells, but I care about seeing the person at the other end.
The situation is far from perfect – something that might be improved by either a proper mac version of Messenger or a perhaps even a Windoze version of iChat.
This must be the stupidest release of anytihng i have ever witnesed there is no diffrence to this MSN than 5.0 PEOPLE GET YOUR HANDS ON ADIUM
the question is, why doesnt apple make a windows version of ichat?
if apple wants people to switch, the switchers dont want to give up things like video chat.
the reality is, more people are on windows then macs, most people dont choose thier freinds, by the OS they use.
Proteus crashed and Fire was inconvenient. http://www.adiumx.com
will any of them work with video?
Does Mercury work with iSight? I cann’t get my hands on my Mac right now. Thanks.