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| Playa24_7 |
I'm wondering who uses the Windows Live Messenger. All these new features and stuff apparently, but who is actually using the new one? I had it for abit a month ago, then wen't back to the old one cause I wasn't use to the new interface and everything haha. I found it harder to see who was online, and who was away, because the status symbol is to small. I mean, it wasn't THAT hard, just bugged me lol. I'm thinking of switching to it though, to be able to send offline messages and stuff.
The thing is, I have a feeling alot of people haven't upgraded to this, so even if I download it, I may not be able to use the features cause no one else has the same one lol. Then if I try to get the old MSN Messenger 7.5 back, it will be hard to find it again lol.
http://get.live.com/messenger/features
Some features I like are that it time stamps messages, and you can send messages to people who are offline, like ICQ back in the day. Apparently you can do that with MSN Plus though. |
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| English Rachel |
I have the latest version of this and yes, it takes a bit of getting used to.
It also seems to have slowed my laptop down considerably.
Stick with the old one until they make it better - it has already had one update so hopefully, they will iron out any gremlins in the next couple of versions. |
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| klago |
| Where are all the miranda/trillan/googletalk fanboys? |
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| E2EK1EL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Playa24_7
I'm wondering who uses the Windows Live Messenger. All these new features and stuff apparently, but who is actually using the new one? I had it for abit a month ago, then wen't back to the old one cause I wasn't use to the new interface and everything haha. I found it harder to see who was online, and who was away, because the status symbol is to small. I mean, it wasn't THAT hard, just bugged me lol. I'm thinking of switching to it though, to be able to send offline messages and stuff.
The thing is, I have a feeling alot of people haven't upgraded to this, so even if I download it, I may not be able to use the features cause no one else has the same one lol. Then if I try to get the old MSN Messenger 7.5 back, it will be hard to find it again lol.
http://get.live.com/messenger/features
Some features I like are that it time stamps messages, and you can send messages to people who are offline, like ICQ back in the day. Apparently you can do that with MSN Plus though. |
I've tried it on my buddy's comp awhile ago, looks nice and all. But I'm still using 7.5, I'm affriad it will suck up memory for nonsense. |
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| ShadoWolf |
| quote: | Originally posted by klago
Where are all the miranda/trillan/googletalk fanboys? |
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| FunkyGroove |
| quote: | Originally posted by Playa24_7
I'm wondering who uses the Windows Live Messenger. All these new features and stuff apparently, but who is actually using the new one? I had it for abit a month ago, then wen't back to the old one cause I wasn't use to the new interface and everything haha. I found it harder to see who was online, and who was away, because the status symbol is to small. I mean, it wasn't THAT hard, just bugged me lol. I'm thinking of switching to it though, to be able to send offline messages and stuff.
The thing is, I have a feeling alot of people haven't upgraded to this, so even if I download it, I may not be able to use the features cause no one else has the same one lol. Then if I try to get the old MSN Messenger 7.5 back, it will be hard to find it again lol.
http://get.live.com/messenger/features
Some features I like are that it time stamps messages, and you can send messages to people who are offline, like ICQ back in the day. Apparently you can do that with MSN Plus though. |
i have a copy of installation package of 7.5, so don't worry Dan:) |
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| ChrisD |
| cant use normal messenger from work, so instead, Im sneaky and use MSN Web Messenger! |
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| SammyD |
| I got it last night, I just like how you can change the colours of more things in it. But I find it has made my lap top slow. |
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| klago |
I'm running Live, Task Manager tells me that mine is using 62MB of memory.
Firefox is using over 200MB.
Memory leak FTW!!! |
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| rabbitjoker |
| I've been using Live Messenger since the beta days (well over 5 months) and it is awesome. Highly recommended. |
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| Tranceplanted |
| quote: | Originally posted by klago
I'm running Live, Task Manager tells me that mine is using 62MB of memory.
Firefox is using over 200MB.
Memory leak FTW!!! |
My messenger has never really used that much, but that said, I'd doubt I'd notice either way since I usually am running other things I know are killing my machine.
Firefox using 200+ MB isn't that remarkable, depending on how many tabs you have open. I think Opera has better memory usage and management with their tabbed browser. |
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