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Here's what I miss ... why I am pissed with the new Messenger
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cubaduda
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O.P. Here's what I miss ... why I am pissed with the new Messenger
Suddenly, with various updates, MSN Messenger changes .. and for me it is not for the better.  People sometimes send me offlline messages via Messenger (i.e. when I am not on line) and I get them when I open Messenger.  That is no more.  Why don't I receive such messages?

I used to have a neatly categorized list of contacts on the opening page (should I say column?) when I opened Messenger.  Now I see who is on line in Messenger when I open my hotmail email but I do not have a distinct list of my Messenger contacts.

Showing whether I was on line, away, busy or invisbible used to be easy.  Now I never know who can see me on line and who can't.  Sometimes I have to show myself on line to the person/contact I wish to speak with before I can send text.  But only sometimes, other times it works whether or not I am appearing as on line or not.  Geesh!

I have told friends who are on my Yahoo and MSN contact lists, that I prefer to use Yahoo now.  But, I am not opposed to change, just to change for the worse.  Is there something I have to do to regain the convenience I used to enjoy with MSN Messenger?
01-19-2011 01:12 AM
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RE: Here's what I miss ... why I am pissed with the new Messenger
i agree with your rants , Yahoo does have  atleast a  block feature in it,  whereas WLM doesnt anymore.  only good thing with 2011 is integrated Tab Windows.  plus i think Yahoo has far better File Transfers 

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01-19-2011 01:26 AM
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RE: Here's what I miss ... why I am pissed with the new Messenger
Consider third party Messenger clients.  The last time I rebuilt my Windows computer, I installed Pidgin instead.  It's not great.  File transfers don't work; custom emoticons don't work; I imagine voice/video doesn't, but I never used those anyway.  However, it is clean and functional, something the Microsoft's client hasn't been for years and is only getting worse for.  Trillian is another third party option for Windows.

Plus! added a lot of value to the official client, but I think it's getting to where even Plus! can't redeem a miserable piece of software Microsoft seems to be determined to turn into complete rubbish.
01-20-2011 07:05 AM
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Consider third party Messenger clients.  The last time I rebuilt my Windows computer, I installed Pidgin instead.  It's not great.  File transfers don't work; custom emoticons don't work; I imagine voice/video doesn't, but I never used those anyway.  However, it is clean and functional, something the Microsoft's client hasn't been for years and is only getting worse for.  Trillian is another third party option for Windows.

Plus! added a lot of value to the official client, but I think it's getting to where even Plus! can't redeem a miserable piece of software Microsoft seems to be determined to turn into complete rubbish.
Pidgin is more for Linux, not Windows, infact i think there is only 1 Pidgin Developer that has a Windows Computer.  Trillian is Great if you dont need Voice/Video. i use trillian all the time an has a lot of Plugins/themes and supports a lot of Protoculs. trillian is also supported on  Android and IPhone an Apple Mac
01-20-2011 07:12 AM
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RE: Here's what I miss ... why I am pissed with the new Messenger
what happened to the guys who made the old messenger?? i think some really old guys made the new version... i physically got bored of using messenger 11
02-02-2011 10:49 PM
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My hotmail or "live.com" list of contacts is not the same as my MSN Messenger list but I can no longer see just my MSN contacts in a separate list and to thereby leave them an IM to check when they open their MSN.  Yahoo is definitely better now.
02-02-2011 11:58 PM
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RE: Here's what I miss ... why I am pissed with the new Messenger
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My hotmail or "live.com" list of contacts is not the same as my MSN Messenger list...
fyi, it never has been. There always were seperate lists for that, even long before WLM 2011.

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... but I can no longer see just my MSN contacts in a separate list...
You can if you go to http://contacts.live.com
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02-04-2011 11:28 AM
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