[windows2000] Re: MS Messenger
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:00:51 +0100
Ray Costanzo <> wrote on Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:49 PM:
Not my employees, my users! Anyway, I dun't really know what they want, all I
hear is "we want Messenger!". I assume this is mainly for intradeptartment,
but can't rule out connecting to the outside just yet.
As ever, this can't cost a penny. I assume R2 is commercial?
This all got started with my boss wanting to use Marratech to have a
vid-conference and sharing docs with an indian co-research colleaugue. Turns
out the indian it-dept didn't allow Marratech in or out through their
firewalls, so that got botched. Skype seemed too insecure. The indian guy
suggested googletalk, but I objected to that on the security part.
Then we settled on looking into something common like Messenger and that's
where I am today.
Thx for your feedback, I appreciate that!
> There used to be Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger, which were quite
> similar to each other, so it seemed. The main difference was that MSN
> Messenger was meant for ordinary home users, while Windows Messenger was
> supposed to be more of a corporate thing, that while it could IM over the
> Internet like MSN Messenger, it could also tie into Exchange running
> messenging services. (I believe this no longer exists, however.) As far as
> the "Live" Messenger, it's just MSN Messenger with Microsoft's latest
> buzzword. That's my take on it, anyway. Where I work, that is the standard
> IM protocol to use, and I ran Live Messenger for a week or two. It was
> fine, but it was still too annoying, so I went back to what I've been using
> for years - Trillian. Trillian's another one that supports multiple
> protocols (MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, and a nice auto-LAN IM thing). It's not
> necessarily better than GAIM or anything else that might exist. It's just
> what I'm used to, and I recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to deal with
> all the sensory overload apps like Live Messenger and ICQ.
>
> Am I correct in assuming that your employees should be able to IM outside of
> your LAN? If not, another nice LAN-based messenger is Tonic from R2
> Studios, http://www.r2.com.au/. What I like most about this is that you can
> find offensive pictures on the Internet and then IM them to your coworkers
> while there are other people sitting at their desks.
>
> Ray at work
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-
>> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:56 AM
>> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [windows2000] MS Messenger
>>
>> 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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