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| Molodiets |
  Posted 23rd Dec 2006 10:21pm |
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http://www.sachgup.com/msn/msn-messenger/messenger-7.0.php
| Quote | MSN 7.0 BETA Version
By Elliooo
A lot of you may already have this, but I thought I'd post something new, since the site desperately needs it.
There's a new version? I hear you ask. Yes there is, and its jammed pack full of useless, annoying time-wasting features, just what I always wanted. One of the most amazing things in this version is what they call, ‘Winks'. ‘Winks' are animations that play over your conversation window.
While you are enjoying you conversation with someone, you might think “Oooh a wink would really spice things up” and you can now play one! These crappy animations make noises too! Just what I always wanted. Some of these winks will cover your conversation while they are displayed, stopping you from saying anything. Covering your display isn't the worst of it either, oh no, it gets much better than that. These ‘Winks' often cause your MSN 7.0 to crash! That's probably where they got the BETA idea from.
There are a fair few different winks, and they all look as though they were drawn by different people. They don't go together, each one is a different style of animation to the last.
But there's more than just ‘Winks' to entertain you in MSN 7.0 there's also, yep you guessed it, ‘Nudges!'
Hoorah for ‘nudges!' These things go beyond annoyance. The general idea is, that when someone isn't talking, you can nudge them to get their arse into gear. A nudge plays an extremely annoying sound affect, and shakes the conversation window. I would get a pic, but It's need to be animated to show the shaking. These great things will make the convo window pop up in front of what ever else you doing! Very annoying if your typing or doing something else important (ie: playing a game) Luckily ‘nudges' and ‘winks' can both be disabled so you don't have to put up with them, but who on earth would delete such great things???
Now you can finally draw and write by hand in MSN messenger! With the addition on the handwriting tab at the bottom of the conversation window!
Now you can write your insults in extremely untidy scrawl, just what you always wanted. With three brush thicknesses and 16 different colours to choose from the possibilities are endless. You can also draw nice pretty pictures, or play pictionary! All these new features are great additions and very useful for people with no lives!
But along, with the horrible, does come some good. The ability to customise your conversation windows really makes a difference. Colours and backgrounds really make a difference to the window.
Also, your personal display picture is now bigger! So instead of trying to look at your tiny little picture, you have the full pic like your friends one!
Your display pic is now rests at the top of your contact list too, so wherever you turn you can look at your amazing display pic!
And now when people sign in, there display pic is added along side their name, not sure what the use is, but makes it look nicer .
And now when you sign in, you can sign in as a status. So you can sign in ‘Offline' and check that no unwanted contacts are online, before showing yourself fully.
MSN Today makes its triumphant return in this version, now more annoying than ever. When you first sign in, it will also pop up, now looking ‘cool' it takes a while to load, and slows down your entire computer, stopping you from using MSN for a few extra seconds. Luckily this can also be turned off.
All in all the new features are great fun to annoy people with, but the novelty wears off extremely quickly. You will soon be longing for the original ‘Windows Messenger'
By CommanderViper
Sounds like just another edition of the same thing to me...the "nudges" came from Yahoo Messenger's *BUZZ* button, the winks are Yahoo's talking avatar things, and the handwriting thing...well I think that came from MS Netmeeting.
By ElySioN
I'll stick to MSN 6.2
By Garner
One thing to note... the pictures in that... MSN client is begining to look more and more like Trillian each time... I'll just run through the list of 'new' features for MSN 7 that elliooo states...
The display of your icon up the top next to your name? Trillian.
Ability to sign in as a certain status? ie 'appear offline?' yawn... already in Trillian...
Showing full size icons? Trillian... well... do I even need to say it? Already there... and the ability to set the icons to whatever size you want takes it even futher...
The little pop up that appears in the bottom right of your screen when someone logs on? Well thats getting that users pic added to it. Trillian? Had that for months...
Customising convo windows? Trillian has thousands of skins... each completely customisable with the backgrounds of your choice and has done for as long as I've used it. Which is around 2.5 years now. Think Trillian got there first as well...
Nudges?
Trillian has had that as an optional plugin
for about a year...
Winks?
MSN can keep those lol, they look annoying LOL
I'd say MS was copying a certain rival client
By Molodiets
So, if i understand correctly, MSN is regressing down to trillian.
By Fate
i have MSN 7.0 and its plus feature beta i can make my msn mesenger almost completely invisible and stuff more features i love it.
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| mad_ferrit |
Posted 23rd Dec 2006 10:37pm |
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MSN 6.2 ftw  |
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| goober |
Posted 23rd Dec 2006 11:04pm |  |
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Nudges came from Yahoo's BUZZ idea, the winks came from Yahoo's Audiobles, and the drawing came from Yahoo's "doodle" INViroment.
Microsoft has done alot of sinking low in the past, but this tops it all. Especially with the release of Vista. Ill be sticking to XP until probably Service Pack 9. |
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