Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has released Messenger for Mac 6.0.
In a first for Microsoft, Messenger for Mac 6.0 is a Universal application built to run on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs
More info and download link here.
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“now both of them can get back to work on Office”
Bravo, I almost spit beer out my nose when I read this. How true. Hey Microslop, why do you even bother?
I’ve always thought that Apple should do a proper iChat client for the PC. It would help sell Apple cameras, make it easy for us Mac folk to chat with our PC using relatives and it would be another way for Apple to demonstrate how good their software is to PC weenies. Perhaps it’s too big of a challenge to make something reliable on the PC, Apple probably has their PC department overworked keeping iTunes working on the PC.
FSCK MICROSOFT
Don’t run their buggy, snitching, exploitable code on your precious Mac.
You’ll be glad you did because you’ll live longer from reduced stress.
Well my office uses Microsoft Messenger for instant messaging, so I am pretty pleased they’ve updated this and made it Universal Binary. Don’t care about video, use Skype for that with friends.
Hopefully this is Microsoft’s first steps towards Universal version of Office 2004.
I really hope they make a Universal Binary of Office 2004, Mac Excel 2007 will be completely useless for any real work once VBA is removed. 🙁
In case anyone is wondering, the team that does the mac version MSN Messenger is not part of the MacBU. To me, this explains a lot between the extreme crappiness of MSN for mac compared with the feature parity achieved with Office for mac.
adium still wins.
http://www.adiumx.com/
Some observations – do what you will with them:
Fact: MSN Messenger for Mac is the MacBU – same as Office for Mac, Virtual PC (what was) and remote desktop. The now defunked Media Player was NOT part of the MacBU.
Fact: MSN Messenger for Mac v. 5 was a Carbon/Cocoa app to start with. The fact that it took them over a year to check the ‘compile for Intel and PowerPC’ and do some debuggin is just down right rediculious. It may have not been an XCode native port at that point but it isn’t exactly a big application to move into XCode. Other larger apps move in much less time (see Divx, Google Earth, Opera, etc) so telling that Microsoft can move Messenger over in a few weeks is just bogus.
Fact: MSN Messenger for Mac is crippled because Microsoft chooses to ignore resources for it. I have no doubt in my mind that there probably isn’t more than 1 or 2 full time developer assigned to the project as the rate of new features and version translates to about 1/2 of an intern it seems.
Fact: The MacBU has some sharp people working there but they are pretty much under the bastard child of all divisions. I mean, putting them in the same division as the XBox team? That makes about as much sense as a screen door on a submarine. The sad fact is Microsoft realizes that making the Mac Office better than the Windows version only provides either: 1) the Windows Office people are not the sharpest people in the world (Let’s hope this isn’t true now that the people working on Office are shifting over to the Windows team) or 2) Windows really is a crumbling tower, kept together time after time with more and more band aids. I’m guessing its mostly #2 but you don’t exactly go around making better products/innovations for your competition.
Well, that’s enough rambling for now…
Microsoft fails to see that if they make truly awesome software, they could dominate all platforms without “strategy.” Instead, they bolster their platform, cripple their Apple offerings, and ignore Linux. Why? They’re scared. They know who’s better and have since the beginning.
Their dominance is the result of a business coup, not a technological one. If they keep their strategy up, they will pay a heavy price. It won’t come immediately, but they’ll be surprised when things suddenly fall apart.
Choice is good. If Microsoft say’s they are working on video, that’s cool too!
For other choice’s see
http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/stories/2002/03/14/osXChatClientsSoManyProgra.html
and
http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/
Isn’t the answer just for Apple to make iChat for Windows?
*yawn* like we use crappy windbloze apps. ichat AV is the best and M$ can go suck it. PeeCee’s suck anyway, especially w/ crappy software. wake me up when some cool new apps come out for my badass mac.
adium is so overrated…
but MSN sucks
I have this sneaky suspicion that with the addition of software update for windows, Apple may try and consume windows from the inside out. One day they’ll all wake up with OS X waiting to be installed or something.
In the Mac Utopia, you don’t eat Apple, Apple eats you! Or something to that effect.
Great. One of the most malware-like programs MS makes… the first to be Universal. Man, MS has got some bizarre priorities.
I use Mercury. It is an MSN client which has more features than MSN Messenger for Mac. It has video support and you can video chat with PC users. Not sure why Microsoft can’t do this if it is already being done by a third party developer apart from the obvious of course!!
It would also be great if Yahoo updated their messenger to include the features available to PC users.