Comments on: Dear Microsoft: 7 Reasons Why Windows Live Messenger is Starting to Suck.

By: tehZ

tehZ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:27:00 +0000

Has anyone mentioned yet it’s unecessary FORCED installations? “Oh hi, we have just released a new version of our terrible product. UNTIL YOU DON’T DOWNLOAD IT YOU’LL NEVER USE IT AGAIN”. Yah, ignore completele that the latetest version was a waste of space, and worked worse than the previous one. Now I have my expectations set that this new version will definitely crash my system.

By: Kelvin12

Kelvin12 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:26:00 +0000

These numbers seem too small but I double checked. ,

By: Loy37

Loy37 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:40:40 +0000

Plimer resorts to attack as the best form of defenceThey are all like that, pure irrelevant nonsense. ,

By: Yeh

Yeh — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:36:58 +0000

screw microsoft

By: åke

åke — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:05:50 +0000

dude, you are complaining about stuff you dont even have to look at when using messenger.. lame

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:37:19 +0000

In case anyone reads this, and are having the same thoughts, you can always patch messenger with the mess patch from http://patch.mess.be/ .
This allows you to turn off most annoying features. (I don’t work for mess.be but they have made a great tool to turn a bad IM into a good one.)

By: sly

sly — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:41:17 +0000

all i really hear is wah wah wahhhh just try qnext. u can message all ur friend on all the major servers (gmail/gtalk,msn, yahoo plus more), basic emotes, no winks( i dont think so atleast) and its realtively quick 2 boot up (except 4 the connecting)
best part about it is is u can sign on 2 all of ur messaging things at 1 time.

By: brad.storch

brad.storch — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:22:52 +0000

In the end I just cracked with the amount of crap that was put into MSN Messenger with each release. It felt bloated and clumsy and I had no control over the look and feel unless I patched it. This sometimes caused instability, and it didn’t change everything I wanted to change anyway. So I moved over to aMSN which is a great alternative with many, many options. There’s also plugins and skins.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:46:01 +0000

Many of these problems can be disabled or all together eliminated with a combination of Messenger Plus, apatch and Messenger Discovery.

1. Tabs can be disabled in options.
2. Nobody (or very few people) actually buys emotes…
3. Can be disabled.
4. Can be disabled from automatically playing (as someone else said)
5. You don’t need to use it. In fact, not once have I had to deal with the Live Spaces option.
6. Don’t need to be used. Sharing folders was a stupid idea in the first place due to WLM’s horrible transfer speeds anyway.

OneCare does not come with WLM (well, I don’t know if it does now – I’m still using 8.1 because I hate the Vista theme of 9+).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:11:04 +0000

msn mess is a horrid mess especially with vista spent 34890234786-23497869280762 hours to sign in and gave up used to have it with xp by the way vista is a nightmare also