I realized that the personal message introduced in MSN Messenger 7 (see review) actually doesn’t suck that badly. I thought it was just a lame way to create another useless hype like the Winks, but on second thought, it is actually doing quite a good job of keeping my contact list clean.
Prior to version 7 of MSN Messenger, people on my contact list (including myself) have weird and long names that take up the whole screen. But now, the personal message actually allocates a space for the user to dump all the useless information, leaving a constant name for the main contact name. This is good, considering I don’t have to spend time hovering over each contact list for the email to show up when I try to find a specific person to talk to.
It is also pretty nice in a chat window — the personal message does not get displayed.
But this is just an excuse to hide the crap that comes or gets used on MSN Messenger isn’t it?
Well, I’m not one to argue that sometimes the programmers seem to be struck with retardation, but for the most part MSN’s a pretty useful and nifty little tool. I mean, so many people use it all the time so it’s a really nice little tool. Plus some of the flashy/pretty parts appeal to my inner mocking bird. XD
Oops, I mean magpie. *sweatdrop*
I’ll stick with trillian.
I mean some of these clients do have some nice features, but it’s just too impractical to run them all at the same time when I can talk to all the same people when just using one client.
Its a good point you’ve brought up. What made MSN crap and Yahoo more popular was the visually-disturbing silly string values people used to have as their display names.
I think personal messages is one of the best features they could have included in the new version.
Mr.Mt why dont use use aim any more!…. whats your msn its me vince:)
I haven’t installed AIM since my last (re)install of Windows XP in august.
hi pplz