Shoutbox

Just a general question to the techies and Admin guys!

Is it too difficult for MSN to add a sycronization feature, like Firefox does for bookmarks and passwords, so wherever you have Live installed it automatically  has everything the same as the main installation that you want?

I just love that feature about Firefox.

I have 2 OS on my laptop here at home, and on my PC at work. And they are all the same.

But my messenger on 1 os at home has great emoticons and pics, the other doesn't, and thoe one at work even less.

Is this just too complicated and difficult for MSN to do?
Seems to me this would be the most sought after feature they could come up with!

Just my uneducated 2 cents worth!!!!

It would be expensive... Think of the bandwidth of everybody sending/receiving all that data

Well, how does Firefox get away with it? I think this is one of the greatest features that they have!

It definitely takes the pain out of a new or reinstall of an OS. I cringe every time I redo messenger, I always lose the coolest emoticons, sometimes never to get them back.

And to try to transfer them, well, have not been able to get that to work.

Why is it technically so difficult?
Seems your personal account/settings on MSG live are the same as book marks and passwords

If you are set up with your login info, seems whatever computer you are on, just reads the info up to date and adds it, that way, you have everything always at hand. Seems MS priortizes to much on needless stuff they think we need and not on practicality of what works!

But then, I'm a simpleton!!!

I think it wont use alot of BW at all The settings can be in txt files named with the email and can have things as simple as

Lock=1
CLPass=234

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Originally posted by Quantum
I think it wont use alot of BW at all The settings can be in txt files named with the email and can have things as simple as

Lock=1
CLPass=234

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And how do you propose sending the emoticons, winks, backgrounds etc?

It would use a lot of bandwidth, hence why the Messenger team have only just put in the "use the same display picture everywhere" feature.

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Originally posted by Quantum
I think it wont use alot of BW at all The settings can be in txt files named with the email and can have things as simple as

Lock=1
CLPass=234

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I can see a couple of things wrong with this technique...

Firstly, if the passwords were stored in .txt files it would be extremely and obviously easy to steal them.

Also, if they're named by email (like abc@def.xyz.txt) it'd be more or less the same. There's a reason encryption was developed.

you can do that in internet explorer
http://www.altools.com/ALTools/ALToolbar.aspx

Am I the only who see a minor (minor) plausability for a script & website here?

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Originally posted by ryxdp

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Originally posted by Quantum
I think it wont use alot of BW at all The settings can be in txt files named with the email and can have things as simple as

Lock=1
CLPass=234

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I can see a couple of things wrong with this technique...

Firstly, if the passwords were stored in .txt files it would be extremely and obviously easy to steal them.

Also, if they're named by email (like abc@def.xyz.txt) it'd be more or less the same. There's a reason encryption was developed.

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Ok well, passwords are encrypted everything else is left fine and instead of emails it can be a unique code per email so nobody knows what code is = to what email.

ALL I AM SAYING IS THIS IS 2008, THERE HAS TO BE A WAY!!!!

JEES, ITS LIKE TRYING COME UP WITH COLD FUSION OR SOMETHING!!!!!