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Old 10th March 2006 | 13:59
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Windows Messenger

I seem to remember that there are two types of MS Windows Messenger- one good, and the other associated with spyware. Am I right?
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Old 10th March 2006 | 16:29
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There's the Messenger service, which is bad.

There's MSN Messenger - which is for IM / chat. Not as bad, but I prefer Trillian !
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Old 10th March 2006 | 19:20
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Yep - there has been a lot of confusion between the two in the past.

MSN messenger (usually just abbreviated to 'MSN') is very widely used - myself and a good number of other prooners use it to keep in touch with each other.

Official site here.
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Old 11th March 2006 | 01:57
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Funny, but since the big crash of 2005, I have reinstalled and yah de dah de dah,, but although I sign out of MSN Messenger 7.5 in order to concentrate on the bizz in hand, I still see people signing in, as though I were connected to same.

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Old 11th March 2006 | 08:04
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after arrival of a new m/c I started using Windows Messenger by mistake ..... all my old buddies on MSN mess were visible but in a very different format and nowhere near as good ..... then realized what was going on so back to MSN for me ......
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Old 11th March 2006 | 08:17
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I tend to use This to remove windows messenger from the pc and just have MSN installed
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Old 11th March 2006 | 08:54
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Nice little touch on MSN 8.0 which I'm currently beta testing, is that you can send messages whilst appearing offline - great if you just want to chat to one person without all the other, welll meaning friends jumping in and saying 'Hi'!
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Old 11th March 2006 | 09:02
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What is bad about/ wromg with Windows Messenger?
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Old 11th March 2006 | 11:25
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Timcat, that sounds great, been waiting since Version 1.1 for them to allow users to do that.
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