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MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by XM4ST3RX on 04-12-2005 at 06:32 PM

Hi,

yes, the new sleek design, the contact list... yes it's all very appealing... but is that all they have done?


• The emoticons displayed in the contact lists have simply just been resized, making them look pixalated.

• The options GUI is not what i expected either. It seems simple and has had no effort put into it. They have simply moved the frames from one to the other and exchanged the tabs for lists. (take some advice from MsgPlus!! :P)

• Also, theres not that many new fantastic features which we all may have expected. A very good one they should have introduced which we all thought was going to, but not just quite the way we wanted it, was Offline Messaging, that would have been awesome!


So all-in-all, a few new not popular features with an upgraded GUI :(.
What do you guys think?


Kind Regards,
XM4ST3RX

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by _Humphreys on 04-12-2005 at 06:33 PM

I think that the new msn is just a ram/process hog. Although I do like the built in 'Now Playing' feature.

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by XM4ST3RX on 04-12-2005 at 06:35 PM

Hi,

Ah yes, that feature is quite good. I also like the sign in status, but those are nothing really special compared to something which Offline Messaging would bring.


Kind Regards,
XM4ST3RX

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by Millenium_edition on 04-12-2005 at 06:36 PM

it's pure nonsense... but everyone uses it. so you have to use it too. and there's some new paying crap added too. it's just some money-gaining entertainment...

it didn't deserve a whole new version though...

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by _Humphreys on 04-12-2005 at 06:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by M_E
it's pure nonsense... but everyone uses it. so you have to use it too. and there's some new paying crap added too. it's just some money-gaining entertainment...

it didn't deserve a whole new version though...

I guess every one's updating before they are forced into it by the Microsoft Nazis. MSN 6.2 was clean and very stable why didn't they stick with it?
RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by Zephyr on 04-12-2005 at 07:10 PM

I do use MSN 7 at the moment, but i thought that 6.2 was a great version and the new features in 7 i will probably very rarely use if at all. Some are quite useful, but mainly they are more fun features. Loads of my friends still use MSN 6.2 after seeing that MSN 7 doesn't do a great deal more.

Btw, this thread should be in MSN/Windows Messenger.

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by RaceProUK on 04-12-2005 at 07:48 PM

My main annoyance was the recent instability of the final release. However, that may have been due to bugs in Plus and SPNG, so I'll wait and see.

Oh yeah, and it takes forever to load those Muggins and the like! And while it's doing that, it freezes the conversation window!

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by spokes on 04-12-2005 at 07:50 PM

It hoggs too much RAM, i had to give my pc 50MB more virtual ram just so messenger wud work a little faster

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by Dempsey on 04-12-2005 at 07:56 PM

yea i think its more worthy of a 6.3 release or something, nut not 7.0

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by Lt.Col.DraGon on 04-12-2005 at 07:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by XM4ST3RX
Hi,

Ah yes, that feature is quite good. I also like the sign in status, but those are nothing really special compared to something which Offline Messaging would bring.
XM4ST3RX


There is already some bots for offline messaging that noroom made. Go to http://www.offlinemessenger.com or see this thread for more information http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=42440&page=1 .

I'm quite dissapointing that they didn't add the offline messaging, that really sucks, but everything else I liked it. They should have put more features on it before they release a new msn version.



RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by .Roy on 04-12-2005 at 08:11 PM

imo 6.2 pwns 7.0

7.0 has so many useless features that i could have lived without.

Who needs winks, muggins, nudges, and all that outher useless features. It also hogs to much cpu when i try to open a window, and i have to wait 10 seconds before i can start typing.

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by RaceProUK on 04-12-2005 at 10:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Dempsey
yea i think its more worthy of a 6.3 release or something, nut not 7.0
Well, 6.5 maybe.
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
Who needs winks, muggins, nudges, and all that outher useless features.
So true.
RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by XM4ST3RX on 04-14-2005 at 05:18 PM

Hi,

LoL @ raceprouk... "Well, 6.5 maybe"... he wasnt purely thinking about the version of that it should have been 6.3 LoL, he was just stating it wasnt worth a full new version. :P


Kind Regards,
XM4ST3RX

RE: MSN Messenger 7.0 - Disappointing / No Effort? by XM4ST3RX on 04-14-2005 at 05:22 PM

Hi,

yeah ive used www.OfflineMessenger.com once before... but it would have been alot more trust worthy, no offence to OfflineMessenger.com, but i cant fully trust addons etc 100% to do their job unless its doing it right infront of my face or where i can see the results.

I'm just saying MSN should have added that feature as i believe it would have got alot of praise.


Kind Regards,
XM4ST3RX