Why does the MSN Service Status page even exist?

Nick Harvey · Wed 21 Jun, 2006 22.30

Yahoo Messenger's fine, if anyone's interested.

Just been chatting to lots of VERY important people.

Jamez · Wed 21 Jun, 2006 22.30

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Pete · Wed 21 Jun, 2006 23.04

Nick Harvey wrote:Just been chatting to lots of VERY important people.

I'd expect nothing less.

On a related note, I thought Yahoo and MSN were meant to be merging their messengers? when is that supposed to be happening?

nwtv2003 · Wed 21 Jun, 2006 23.24

Jamez wrote:
nwtv2003 wrote:I timed it well, my NTL Broadband speed was starting to annoy me (plus my PC isn't too great with it)...
Make sure you use Ethernet on NTL modems. USB is very dodgy with them!

Yup, used Ethernet connection since I've had it installed, though the Modem (NTL Modem 250) comes with both USB and Ethernet cables, there was a massive letter strontly advising not to use USB. Anyway thats not the problem, my problem is my PC can only take 128MB, where as NTL recommends 256MB at least, it does work fine, but it slows down when you run several programs obviously. I'm on the 4MB service, but my download rate should be about 400KB per second, (it has been) but sometimes can go as low as 40/50 KB, still fast but nowhere near as. I was thinking of Uprgrading anyway, still have some money left.

Ant · Wed 21 Jun, 2006 23.24

Hymagumba wrote:
Nick Harvey wrote:Just been chatting to lots of VERY important people.
I'd expect nothing less.

On a related note, I thought Yahoo and MSN were meant to be merging their messengers? when is that supposed to be happening?

I think the plan is to make them compatible with each other (ie. An MSN contact will be able to talk to a Yahoo! Messenger contact through both softwares.)

At the moment, it looks as if it'll only be text-compatible but webcam and audio will probably come along in the future. Compatibility should be available in the next month or so (depending on technical issues).

James Martin · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 11.22

Half of my contacts have fallen off of my list!

I keep getting messages from people then it telling me they're not my list!

Jamez · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 16.15

http://194.112.40.188/trev2.swf

marksi · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 16.22

Jamez wrote:http://194.112.40.188/trev2.swf

That's the best thing you've ever posted.

Why can't we enter things like that into Eurovision?

Bail · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 18.41

Theres also a Magical Trev 2 & 3, and "on the moon" isnt bad either...

http://www.weebls-stuff.com click on toons.

Pete · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 22.13

Antz wrote:Compatibility should be available in the next month or so (depending on technical issues).

due to an accidental button press, I came across this in MSN's help pages

"If you are adding a Yahoo! Messenger instant message address, enter the full e-mail address."

so perhaps it's already working, just not advertised

Gavin Scott · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 22.19

Hymagumba wrote:
Antz wrote:Compatibility should be available in the next month or so (depending on technical issues).
due to an accidental button press, I came across this in MSN's help pages

"If you are adding a Yahoo! Messenger instant message address, enter the full e-mail address."

so perhaps it's already working, just not advertised

I'm sure it does work. The new beta version apparently scoured my hard drive and imported all my yahoo contacts. At least I have no memory of having done it.

My memory is shot, so don't take my word for it.