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Notes on Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0

Microsoft released version 6 of it’s Messenger client for Mac yesterday, and it’s a very welcome update. Here are my notes after using it for a few hours:

• It’s very easy to change your status, and set your status message.
• You can only log in to one MSN account at a time, unless your company has a Corporate account on Windows Live.
• I can’t figure out how to talk to people on the Yahoo network yet.
• The toolbar is nice, and it acts as any other toolbar on OS X, you can customize it.
• You can save your contact list to a file, you can also import a contact list.
• By default, it has a sound alert for new messages, it’s the classic sound you were used to in the Windows version.
• It saves conversations by default.
• If you hover on a contact that’s unavailable and double click on the name, it will act as a mailto: link to the contact’s email.
• The default font for text messages is Lucida Grande at 12px. Very nice.
• You can activate a drawer on a message window that will show both your avatar and your contact’s avatar.
• It displays avatars/display pictures by default in the message window, just like iChat.
• The Send button is huge.

It’s a great update, it won’t make anyone stop using Adium, but it’s good to know we have a good alternative for MSN. I would use it full time if it had tabs and if I could sign into more than one MSN account at a time. It’s a Universal Binary now too.

Now here are some pictures of it:

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