#4586668

Mannerheim

2013-04-29 15:09

thanks .. it works

#4586747

schmidtbag

2013-04-29 17:11

Personally I don't think it's such a bad idea to ditch messenger. While I only had maybe 2 MSN contacts (both of which are accessible from my yahoo messenger account), I never used MS's messenger program anyway. With Skype having MSN messenger built-in, I don't see a need of having 2 different chat programs. The only crappy part is on Windows, Skype is severe bloatware. It's surprisingly clean and fast on every other platform, though not exactly the most feature-rich or reliable on Linux. In my case, I don't remember the last time I installed a chat program on Windows so the Windows Skype bloat isn't a personal issue.

#4586759

dsbig

2013-04-29 17:38

not to mention that fact that windows 8 has messenger integrated. and also Facebook chat with it.

#4586767

RavenMaster

2013-04-29 17:42

I would happily transfer to Skype if Skype user interface wasn't as ugly as sin. Their smiley's are crap too. MSN messenger looked better. MS needs to work on the aesthetics before I ever convert.

#4586781

TheDeeGee

2013-04-29 18:15

Havn't used Messenger anymore for like 8 years. I got WoW as replacement.

#4586784

bobdude

2013-04-29 18:21

lol i use vent

#4586871

EspHack

2013-04-29 20:42

all i want in skype is easier photo/video sharing and at least a freaking "night mode" theme, it is a pain in the as$ to chat at 2am on my computer, and simply wlm 2011 is the best looking chat app i have ever seen, like a mix of aero design with metro transitions, amazing, thats the way w8 for x86 should look like, and let the plain flat metro for wp and RT where they look good too

#4586906

dcx_badass

2013-04-29 21:42

Last one I used was Windows Live Messenger v8.5, had to hack that to keep working after they tried to force WLM2009 on people. Used that till about 2010, then switched to Trillian (cross platform), then stopped using it altogether about mid 2012 as I didn't know anyone who still used it.

#4586921

lucidus

2013-04-29 22:20

Moved on to facebook/google/whatsapp a long time ago anyway.

#4586998

Rich_Guy

2013-04-29 23:48

My messengers working fine still, im using v9 (i think), under windows XP compatability (which stopped the forced upgrade to v10), im always getting theres a new version available when i sign in, and im always getting theres a new version been downloaded, must install it to continue, but i always click no and start it up, as it still works fine 😀

#4587827

Rich_Guy

2013-05-01 10:54

Well wouldn't let it work today, kept saying i had to install the new version to continue, so just used this reviver, and were back, works great. 🙂