MSN Messenger – mac

December 4th, 2006 Posted by Brett

What’s the deal with the default [MSN Messenger](http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=msnmessenger) client for the Mac? I could rave on and on about this, so I decided that I will just write it all down in point form.

  • No tabbed chat interface.
  • Clunky / large UI.
  • No web-cam, game, extended compatibility with windows client (could be seen as a good thing).
  • Lagging behind features of the windows client.
  • The “One or more messages could not be sent” message that shows up 5-10 min’s after you have just typed a lot of stuff. Giving no real indication what was, and what wasn’t, sent properly.
  • Preferences aren’t saved per messenger user-name. If I change the colour on my MSN user-name, someone else who logs in (using my OS X account) gets the same colour.
  • Rarely updated, and when it is new features are very /yawn.

These are just a few things off the top of my head. I could add more if I sat and thought about it. In summary, why does the official MSN messenger client for Mac suck so much?

**Note: It handles multiple group conversations very well.

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  1. December 4th, 2006 at 2:27 pm

    I actually read a blog post from a dev on the Windows Messenger Team, basically bagging out all the features of the OS X version of Messenger. They compared all the featuers of the OS X version and proclamed how the Windows version had them first blah blah.

    Seems like some nice team work going on at Microsoft.

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