the big boss reviews 2009
Eric Wilfrid, the general manager of MacBU, has posted over at Mac Mojo his year-end round-up: 2009 in review. For those of you who were looking for an update about Messenger:Mac, his post includes that.
Comments
Anonymous
December 22, 2009
Sorry but I don't buy that "progress has been slower than expected due to the challenge of connecting to the most current A/V code running on the Windows Live servers" Why not just saying it is NOT a priority. @caxAnonymous
December 22, 2009
I can't force you to believe it. I can only tell you that it's been a hugely important priority for the Messenger team, and that getting that to work cross-platform has turned out to be a bigger challenge than they expected.Anonymous
December 22, 2009
So is MacBU planning on adding more features and change the interface a little or is it going to be pretty much like that "early beta" that leaked in the beginning of the year? And thanks for all the work!Anonymous
December 22, 2009
Sorry, I can't talk about what will be in Messenger other than what we've already announced (which is personal A/V support). I'll definitely do so when I can, since I'm dogfooding it right now.Anonymous
December 22, 2009
Since the beta won't be available until March - will there be a bug fix for 7.0.2? There are a number of annoying bugs at the moment.
- Other users display pic not showing
- Nickname changes back to name or e-mail address
- Slow file transfers
- Blocking/unblocking/deleting a user does not always work
Anonymous
December 22, 2009
Are the "winks" (called "animoticons" in the italian version, maybe in other versions as well) going to be included in the next version of Messenger:Mac? Just to catch up with the Windows version. I hope so, otherwise it will never be 100% compatible. Thank you!Anonymous
December 22, 2009
Well, I was really expecting an update or a beta of Messenger but is it quite good to hear some news. Hope the wait worth it Thanks!Anonymous
December 23, 2009
Just that: Offline messages or not? This is making messenger (even the leaked early beta) UNUSABLE!Anonymous
December 23, 2009
And how can he blame the video and audio incompability if even the year-old leaked beta has it working till nowadays?Anonymous
December 24, 2009
After 5 years... another lie, simply!Anonymous
December 25, 2009
I sure hope it has a new interface... The current one is ugly, old, bulky and did I mention... ugly?Anonymous
December 25, 2009
C´mon!!!!! In the time you couldn´t deliver a decent IM client, Apple got several OPERATING SYSTEMS! (Not to mention program suites like ILife or iWork)... not counting the fact they are a HARDWARE company. Seriously, they don´t need the "Mac vs. Pc" campaign to make people run away from Windows filled machines (PCs, that is)... while having Microsoft behind them.Anonymous
December 28, 2009
A bug fix is badly needed. I have encountered yet another bug in Messenger:Mac 7.0.2 When I log in, the contact list remains empty, as if all my contacts were offline (I know they're not) and after about ten seconds i get logged out again. I have not been able to log in at all for a while now. Using WLM under Windows - or a clone like aMSN does work, but not Messenger:Mac 7.0.2