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Originally posted by Butcher_ss
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by ICQ
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Originally posted by Chrissy
As along as we can keep WLM 9.0 I;ll be happy
you'll be forced to update for security reasons. unless you use a Hack or whatever to stay on that version without getting Notifications there is an update available
Nope.
WLM 9.0 will still be supported for a long time to come (since this is the only version working on XP, the new WLM is Vista/Win7 exclusive).
Surprise-surprise there. M$ releasing products which intentionally do not support older OS even their own. Last time i checked Win XP is still supported by M$. Billy ran out of money?
This doesn't have much to do with money etc. The reason is that the new Messenger (and all the other Live products btw) need the new technologies and possebilities from Vista/7.
If these technologies and stuff weren't available you wouldn't have a new Messenger. With the previous version they hit the wall as to what was possible.
For example, the high definition video and other graphical stuff (and I'm not only talking about Messenger, but also Movie Maker, Photo gallery, etc) aren't possible on XP. That is, they might have been possible in theorie, but it would lagged a lot and the performance would be very very bad.
Also, it would be kind of utterly stupid to put time and money into developing only for XP.
I don't like it either that Wave 4 doesn't work on XP, as I use XP and will still be using XP for quite some time. But the choice of MS is very very logical and absolutely normal.
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Originally posted by ICQ
yeah on XP it will be supported for a long time, but im sure if one has Win7 and or Vista they'll force the update
There will not be a forced update unless there is a major security issue, even on Vista/7.
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Originally posted by ICQ
uses heaps of Ram to.. 57k atleast. even my Trillian Astra4.2 uses half of that 
errrrrr... 57K is extremely little.
Also, Vista uses a completely different memory model than XP. In fact, you should be happy that Messenger (or any other program for that matter) uses as much memory as it can. For stuff like this, the more memory is used the less stuff needs to be swapped to the hard disk. Swapping to hard disk is extremely resource intensive, and a hell lot slower than using memory.
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