Window Live Messenger
Ok, I’ve been putting off upgrading to Windows Live Messenger for a while. Mainly because they ruined my Hotmail account with Windows Live Mail (could only log in from IE not Firefox). But now that is up and running smoothly I thought i might as well upgrade messenger so that it checks my emails (as the old version of MSN messenger doesn’t like Windows Live Mail but it seems to be only me that this has happen to).
So clicked on the link from the Live people about upgrading and 30 sec later was installed and signing in. Then crash!
Grrr, not a good start!
So after reboot its signing in again….................................. goes to make cup of coffee…........ has a sandwich and then finally it signs in to a total of 1 contact! What where have my contacts gone?
So I sign out and sign in using the original Windows Messenger and few all 39 contacts are still ok.
So trying Live again…. oh 13 contacts… better but hay wait 6 of them are E-mail only so that only leaves 7?
So after 20 minutes of Google searching in the depths of some sort of slightly official windows live blog I find that they are having trouble with people timing out and hence if you are using a wireless network for you might not be able to see all your contacts all of the time. Cheers for the warning guys!
19 Jul 2006 16:21
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[Skip to the latest comment]I've been using it for the last few months and not really had any problems. You could always have switched to the classic version in Live mail as well – that worked fine in Firefox, though doesn't matter now as the normal version is supported anyway.
19 Jul 2006, 19:01
Yer, Classic Version did work after they figured out that it didn't work with Firefox. But then Classic view was just hotmail minus a few things (like “goto folder”) and it took absolutely ages. Kind of pointless, really.
My problem is that Window Live Beta is using us to find bugs and problems but there is nowhere to find out if the bugs have already been found by someone else. What I want is somewhere that I can go and search for my specific problem to see if there is a resolution or if I’m the only one with the problem. Something like the forums set up by Novell for Suse. All we get are the Blogs from the people who are developing the software.
LINK
Guess I’ve got used to the openness of Linux (Suse & Ubuntu) and was thinking that Windows Live was going to try and emulate their success.
19 Jul 2006, 19:28
azad80
i want msn messenger and yahoo messenger with voice
24 Sep 2006, 13:33
nancy o'keefe
need to get my same account for my msn
12 Oct 2006, 07:32
lonnie rodgers
I’m lost
08 Feb 2007, 20:02
savannah langstaff
i would like to go on msn
10 Feb 2007, 10:04
AMREEN
THAT WAS STUPID
19 Feb 2007, 19:39
amber
i want Msn please it will not work
11 Mar 2007, 17:59
amber
why is it not working????
11 Mar 2007, 18:00
y
duh!!!!
11 Mar 2007, 18:20
SK Huy
orange
14 Mar 2007, 11:39
callum
i wanna girl fried som resond in 1 min plz
14 Apr 2007, 08:25
craig
hi craig is my name
14 May 2007, 19:48
danielle
oioiwhat are u up to my dad says inot lound to play with u any moore
20 May 2007, 16:54
markus
go dum dum tell me when to go
20 May 2007, 21:39
ayesh
wats dis all bout
21 May 2007, 15:34
Amelia
why wont it work cause its doing my headin NOW
21 Jun 2007, 22:11
radain
dis fuckin msn is shit it wont let me on my accout cause apparently my password is wrong!
24 Jun 2007, 10:19
I’ve closed this down to stop spam!
25 Jun 2007, 09:51
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