Shoutbox

There was a leaked verion on the internal website on about Thursday (maybe) and then they did the release, realized there were some "bugs" and that they were going to "fix" them and re-release it on Monday.

Really microsoft are really poor people... they didnt update msn 6.2 at all... still 6.2 is sad... they never put this deluxe display pic and stuff and they will never do it. I hope for the next build for msn 6.2 they add the deluxe display pics and the mp3 stuff....

All i have to say is that MSN 6.2 was never updated from Thursday to Monday... Microsoft liars

Yep...I tried that myself...nothing was changed

But then, how is this explained? http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=24348

I dont think microsoft will ever update it,
they're to lazy...he he
i tried it myself also...no new features...

Perhaps the bug was on the MSN server and wasn't configured for 6.2.0133 and this could cause bugs...So there was no need to release 6.2 until the server was configured fully for 6.2...

If you checked out mess.be, you would find that a new feature caused a problem with the MSN servers, or they needed updating or something like that... so they pulled it off their site until it was fixed.

No, i just tested the installes, here are the results:

New: Are the installers i downloaded 10 minutes ago, English version from downloaded from http://messenger.msn.com/ (The new so called fixed version of MSN 6.2).
Old: Are the installers i downloaded friday the 23th of april from http://messenger.msn-int.com (The old "leaked" version of MSN 6.2).

en-xp-new: 78bcc464393b87ed900129cc56afac06
en-xp-old: 78bcc464393b87ed900129cc56afac06
en-98-new: c6bb4d00dea375c66f9cffce3fc237e4
en-98-old: c6bb4d00dea375c66f9cffce3fc237e4
en-2k-new: 48526979b9c93ef2ee356920e2e2581c
en-2k-old: 48526979b9c93ef2ee356920e2e2581c

As you can see, all their 3 installers are still exactly the same as the "leaked" version. If you want you can also test it yourself, i have the old "leaked" installers still on my mirror ( http://www.xs4all.nl/~mail2jae/msn/ ). Take a look at the filedate there and you see that those are indeed the old ones.

So indeed, there was nothing changed at all. Like Patchou said it could have just been a server-side change, but why did they uploaded 6.2 to the official messenger.msn.com and the just a few hours later took it away again if it just needed some server changes? Interesting, i already thougth they didn't change anything when i saw it was still the same build and when people reported bugs they had in the "leaked" version too.
Why is something re-released when they already recieved a lot of bug reports in just the few first hours after the "leaked" version became puclic.

Microsoft Watch ( http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1572366,00.asp ) brougth the news, maybe they can tell us more?


The Dutch site tweakers.net ( http://www.tweakers.net/meuktracker/6004 ) says there was a security problem fixed with animated smiles. No, i'm not saying animated DP's.

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Nadat enkele beveiligingslekken met betrekking tot geanimeerde smilies aan het licht kwamen werd de release van deze populaire instant messaging-client namelijk teruggetrokken. Inmiddels lijkt het er op dat de problemen zijn opgelost en kunnen we de software weer met gerust hart downloaden.

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Ofcourse the [i]might[/] have fixed that sever-side, but animated smiles have been in 6.1 too and it seems a bit unlikely they changed the animated smiles code so i wonder why they had to take 6.2 offline.

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Originally posted by gigablade77

Microsoft fixed SOME bugs from 6.1 in 6.2, but in doing so added new ones

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they also added new features, like the smilies you can see before you send it to your contact, and these have created new bugs. It's not that they made new bugs by correcting the old ones.

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Originally posted by doggie
errr.. it isnt a leaked version.. considering you can download it from microsoft rofl

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he was talking about the one you could download on Thursday.

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Originally posted by weirdal27
I think they just pulled it off for some other reason, because wasn't it on the official site for a couple hours as well as the internal site for even longer?

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It was on the internal site (http://messenger.msn-int.com) but not on http://messenger.msn.com. I checked that site Thursday.

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Originally posted by Lt.Col.DraGon
Really microsoft are really poor people... they didnt update msn 6.2 at all... still 6.2 is sad... they never put this deluxe display pic and stuff and they will never do it. I hope for the next build for msn 6.2 they add the deluxe display pics and the mp3 stuff....

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Microsoft never officially announced that they would implement the animated display pictures into 6.2. They also haven't spoken of animated display pictures. The only animated display pictures there are those for the Korean msn messenger with the Messenger Powerplus program.

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Originally posted by BaBy
I dont think microsoft will ever update it,
they're to lazy...he he

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if they were lazy they wouldn't code Windows, they wouldn't release patches, they wouldn't work on Microsoft related products (e.g. MSN Messenger) and so on. Thats bs.

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Originally posted by BaBy
i tried it myself also...no new features...

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not every new build has new features, mostly it are just bug fixes or security fixes. 6.2 has new features that 6.1 hadn't like the smilies you can see before you send it to your contact and other minor features.

I don't think they have updated as well.  I mean, it looks like 6.2 is still not officially publicised.  You go to msn.com and there is no mention of the msn 6.2, you type it in google, and nothing official comes up.  You go to msn.com and click on the messenger button, and it takes you to http://www.msnmessenger-download.com which does not have the 6.2 download file.  You have to manually go to the official site messenger.msn.com to download it.  This all seems very wierd.  Maybe they are still working on another release, who knows.

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Originally posted by sarkispc
I don't think they have updated as well.  I mean, it looks like 6.2 is still not officially publicised.  You go to msn.com and there is no mention of the msn 6.2, you type it in google, and nothing official comes up.  You go to msn.com and click on the messenger button, and it takes you to http://www.msnmessenger-download.com which does not have the 6.2 download file.  You have to manually go to the official site messenger.msn.com to download it.  This all seems very wierd.  Maybe they are still working on another release, who knows.

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It's not about looks... A program can perfectly be updated without any change in the look or without any new features...

PS: http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/ does have Messenger 6.2, it all points to the same URL...