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Posted: Mon 29 Aug, 2005 22.33
by Skytower
time warp wrote:Probably a load of cobblers, but an email I received recently says MSN Messenger will be a pay-monthly service as of September 14th...
Not similar to this, is it...?
Subject: MSN...very important!
Dear MSN and Hotmail users:
MSN is planning to take away MSN Messanger by September 14th, 2001.If you want to keep our MSN Messanger free of charge, send this email to everyone you know. It will be used as a petition.Each person you send this to counts as one "signature" If this petition gets 500,000 signatures they will keep MSN Messenger. If they do not receive 500,000 votes you will have to pay 5.00 to have Messenger(per month).If you don't care about this then please for everyone's sake help out a little. Thank you for your time and consideration and please help MSN beat, their vote.
A hoax that, as you can see by the date, has been in circulation in one form or another for quite some time now...
Posted: Mon 29 Aug, 2005 22.39
by Ant
Skytower wrote:time warp wrote:Probably a load of cobblers, but an email I received recently says MSN Messenger will be a pay-monthly service as of September 14th...
Not similar to this, is it...?
Subject: MSN...very important!
Dear MSN and Hotmail users:
MSN is planning to take away MSN Messanger by September 14th, 2001.If you want to keep our MSN Messanger free of charge, send this email to everyone you know. It will be used as a petition.Each person you send this to counts as one "signature" If this petition gets 500,000 signatures they will keep MSN Messenger. If they do not receive 500,000 votes you will have to pay 5.00 to have Messenger(per month).If you don't care about this then please for everyone's sake help out a little. Thank you for your time and consideration and please help MSN beat, their vote.
A hoax that, as you can see by the date, has been in circulation in one form or another for quite some time now...
I get them all the time. It surprises me some people fall for them.
Posted: Wed 31 Aug, 2005 22.42
by DJGM
Strange . . . I just tried to download it, and it's served up v7.0 instead! When I ran the installer, it gave me
the options to either Repair or Remove the program. So, is MSN Messenger 7.0 actually available or not?
(And yes, I know you're probably surprised to find that I use MSN Messenger! But, only occasionally!)
Posted: Wed 31 Aug, 2005 22.44
by J.Christie
DJGM wrote:Strange . . . I just tried to download it, and it's served up v7.0 instead!
That happened to be when I installed the patch for Pinnacle Studio.
What is the new thing that 7.5 brings?
Posted: Wed 31 Aug, 2005 22.50
by Nick Harvey
J.Christie wrote:What is the new thing that 7.6 brings?
It's probably to do with shouting at people, using some form of electric amplifying device.
Posted: Wed 31 Aug, 2005 23.08
by russnet
DJGM wrote:Strange . . . I just tried to download it, and it's served up v7.0 instead! When I ran the installer, it gave me
the options to either Repair or Remove the program. So, is MSN Messenger 7.0 actually available or not?
This happened to me. I downloaded, clicked on the desktop MSN 7.5 icon but it loaded up 7.0. Even checked the version number on the Help bit just in case I was going mad!
It wasn't until I rebooted my PC then when clicking on the icon made the proper version appear. Apparently the 7.5 beta version is only works for people on XP otherwise it will only download 7.0
Posted: Wed 31 Aug, 2005 23.24
by J.Christie
Nick Harvey wrote:J.Christie wrote:What is the new thing that 7.6 brings?
It's probably to do with shouting at people, using some form of electric amplifying device.
I thought it just came with a free megaphone.
Posted: Wed 31 Aug, 2005 23.33
by DJGM
russnet wrote:
Apparently the 7.5 beta version is only works for people on XP otherwise it will only download 7.0
That's somewhat strange . . . the MSN Messenger website lists Windows 98SE as being one of the minimum system
requirements. Although, it does point out that some of it's features are restricted to having Windows XP installed.
Posted: Thu 01 Sep, 2005 02.51
by DJGM
On a not entirely unrelated subject . . .
When I double clicked on one of my offline contacts on my MSN Messenger contact list, it fired up MSIE to login
to Hotmail. (Normally, I wouldn't appreciate that p*ss poor excuse for a browser rearing it's ugly head without
permission, especially when I've Firefox set as my default browser, but I decided to let it pass just this once.)
The crux of the matter was that it displayed the message "The e-mail address or password is incorrect. Please
retype the e-mail address and password, or sign up if you haven't already done so." Which was a bit strange,
since I can login to my Hotmail account with Firefox, or any other internet browser without any problem.
Although this isn't much of an issue to me when I using my own computers, but it could well be an issue if I
try to login to Hotmail at an internet cafe, library or any other public internet access computer, where the
only browser likely to be available would be Internet Explorer. Any ideas why this could be happening?
Posted: Thu 01 Sep, 2005 07.37
by Pete
I t started firing up IE with 7.0 which I thought was odd after 6 had so many little patches to make it uses the default browser instead.
MSN seem to be running out of ideas. Voice clips seem useless and the constant reminders to buy a webcam are very annoying especially as I simply leave mine unplugged to keep my desk tidy