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Originally posted by Chrissy
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
All I can say is: if you don't like it, complain as much as you can to MS and/or on all the forums and blogs you can find.
Would it work if someone made an online petition sorta thing?
Nope. As a matter of fact they usually backfire. Posting comments on blogs and other forums. Especially the official ones has far greater impact, as long as you complain about something which is truely missing/wrong. Complaining about a feature X which you personally don't like usually doesn't help. But this isn't just a feature x which is missing or lacking some options. These are fundamental privacy issues.
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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Honestly though, I don't think most users have profile-only contacts. I mean...I actually doubt people actually use their profiles for anything. Imo, it only affects the online people who have their own identities online (I don't have fans online, so this really doesn't make a difference to me.)
You'd be surprised. It affects people using Hotmail even more, because there it is quite easy and almost intuitive to store 'contacts'. Although most of those would already know your email address (so, it is a bad example though), the name issue is still a concearn. Also this isn't just about Messenger. It impacts all of the Live Services, which are used quite a lot.You can add contacts from more places than just Hotmail or Messenger. Now, they all end up in your (Messenger) contacts resulting in them knowing your email address.
Either way. Even if only like 5% of the people using the Live Services have like 5 profile-only contacts, it is still a loss in privacy, and one without any warning (unless you read every tiny bit of text and click on every link before you proceed in altering your profile settings -but we all know how much people actually read-). Privacy issues should never be taken lightly or for granted.
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Originally posted by ICQ
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
And for that, dear MS, I give you 
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now thats a first i seen from you Cookie 
i can see a Lot going for Amsn or other IM clients if M$ dont change it
This doesn't have anything todo with the client. This isn't some feature which is lacking or whatever. These are underlying protocol things which even AMSN and other IM clients are obligated to use (if you're on the WL network).
PS: this isn't the first time I complain about MS either though. 
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Originally posted by Kafman
Gotta love the smartscreen, everytime someone sends me a link I feel like having installed some kind of spyware 
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When Microsoft wants to protect you, the hell they do!
Yeah, that's another thing people were complaining about during the private beta. You can't turn it off... And although it will protect a lot of less pc-literate people (which is what it is for) and as such is a great feature, there are still people who know what they are doing and for them this is unfortunatly again a step towards leaving Messenger all together for their business. Hopefully this will change by the time the final version is released.
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Originally posted by ICQ
ok iv'e had 2 crashes with it, Pressing CTRL+N crashes it ( doesnt matter what Mode its in, i can reproduce that crash)
ai, not good... Make sure you have enabled the option to send crash logs to MS.
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Originally posted by Eddie
Installing now, the only put-off for me is the inability to use a nickname, but I would be shocked if that was not re-added.
Don't get your hopes up to much though. The whole integration with social networks was also one of the reasons why the display name has been removed. Which is kind of logical because in some social networks you have it, in others you don't, and some people don't use social networks at all. So it would have made the whole integration a bit complicated as in who sees what name and when. Now it is more 'streamlined', more like one name for everything so to speak. At least, that's the intention.
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