[windows2000] Re: MS Messenger
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:39:51 +0100
Charles R. Buchanan <> wrote on Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:07 PM:
I thought the WLM was the corporate edition, and as such with no ads in it,
like Eudora Full-featured but with ads and Eudora Full Licensed with no ads.
My mistake.
> You won't be able to get away from the ads, no matter which program you
> use. (YM, Windows Live Messenger) I don't know much about GAIM though.
>
> My personal favorite is Yahoo Messenger. On YM, you can be "online" to
> some of the people on your list and "offline" to others. On WLM, you're
> either "online" to all, or "offline" to all, no in between! Now you can
> cross communicate between the two services. If one person has YM but not
> WLM, no problem. If one has WLM but not YM, no problem. :-)
>
> By the way, I think that's a not recent article because WLM has been out
> of beta for a little bit now. the latest and greatest is 8.1, but there
> is an update available, just haven't updated yet. :-O
>
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:56:05 +0100, "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> took time to say the following:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Due to popular demand at our department (and the boss pressing me on it...)
>> I've taken up testing out this new-fangled thing called Instant Messaging
>> (IM).
>>
>> First I looked at was MSN Messenger v7.5, which looks ok, but it's
>> chockfull of ads and other irritating stuff. Then found on Wikipedia
>> there's a Live Messenger v8beta (haven't tried it yet). Yet another I've
>> found and that looks interesting is Gaim, capable of several protocols,
>> including Jabber which apparentely supports group conferences, something
>> Messenger does not AFAIK.
>>
>> I'm a bit confused though about MS Messenger. I don't quite see the
>> difference between them. Anybody care to explain this to me? Or point me
>> to good place for this.
>>
>> Otherwise, anything or any gotchas' I should be aware of when dealing with
>> IM (except for viruses and stuff)?
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> BW,
>>
>> Sorin
>>
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