Differences

Folks:


Appreciate if someone could tell me the differences among the following 3
application programs :

* Windows Messenger 5.1
* MSN Messenger 7.5
* Windows Live messenger 8.0

Just downloaded all 3 of these programs from Microsoft's site & cannot
decide which one to install.

* What are the basic differences (if any) between the messaging programs ?



Thanks,
Jo.

Don't tell me that Microsoft has confused you??? I wont believe you !!! lol

ok.. here is the long bitter story..

Microsoft one day said.. ICQ AOL and Yahoo have IM clients, why don't we do
some of our
usual innovation, and copy them?

This was in the win98 era.... so they made the first messengers....

then some Microsoft dork said: Why don't we bundle that with our new OS that
is coming out?
(XP). So when you installed XP you had windows messenger whether you wanted
it or not.
You could not remove it. You could not disable it. You had to be a hacker to
get rid of it
without slowing down your pc.

Then another Microsoft Dork came around and said: Lets make another
messenger but lets call
it MSN messenger and let that be for entertainment and the general public
while the other windows messenger will be left for IM messages in the
corporate sector.
Ok.. so they did that.. and hell broke loose. People now had 2 messengers
competing to log in
with each other, both starting.. and most people could not understand why,
or how they could remove the old one (they couldn't!).

And when things could not be worse... ANOTHER Microsoft Dork came along and
said....
Lets make a messenger, that will actually be an upgrade of msn messenger but
lets call it
something else so we can at last totally confuse everyone! Lets call it Live
messenger!
Lets give it a face lift and use some ripped off technologies like
foldershareing!

To make things worse listen to this:
Windows messenger cannot be installed on windows98 you can only install msn
messenger 5
Windows messenger cannot be installed on Win2000 you can only install msn
messenger 7.0
on XP you have windows messenger weather you like it or not, and you can
install either 7.5
or messenger live 8.x...On Vista only 8.0 can be installed but it has issues
so you are better off installing 8.1 beta!

Simple right?

Don't tell me this confuses you? If I was in charge in MS, I would give all
those dorks the BOOT.
They have made a mess of everything.



<JoJo> wrote in message news:%23FXXJTcGHHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Folks:
>
>
> Appreciate if someone could tell me the differences among the following 3
> application programs :
>
> * Windows Messenger 5.1
> * MSN Messenger 7.5
> * Windows Live messenger 8.0
>
> Just downloaded all 3 of these programs from Microsoft's site & cannot
> decide which one to install.
>
> * What are the basic differences (if any) between the messaging programs
> ?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jo.
>

Note.. I may be mistaken now that I think of it.. perhaps you can install
windows messenger on
win98 or win2k... See? they have even mixed me up...

there is more grief in this story.. that was the SHORT version....


Microsoft Dorks... how would we spend our free time without them?


"MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
news:OW5oyghGHHA.1804@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Don't tell me that Microsoft has confused you??? I wont believe you !!!
> lol
>
> ok.. here is the long bitter story..
>
> Microsoft one day said.. ICQ AOL and Yahoo have IM clients, why don't we
> do some of our
> usual innovation, and copy them?
>
> This was in the win98 era.... so they made the first messengers....
>
> then some Microsoft dork said: Why don't we bundle that with our new OS
> that is coming out?
> (XP). So when you installed XP you had windows messenger whether you
> wanted it or not.
> You could not remove it. You could not disable it. You had to be a hacker
> to get rid of it
> without slowing down your pc.
>
> Then another Microsoft Dork came around and said: Lets make another
> messenger but lets call
> it MSN messenger and let that be for entertainment and the general public
> while the other windows messenger will be left for IM messages in the
> corporate sector.
> Ok.. so they did that.. and hell broke loose. People now had 2 messengers
> competing to log in
> with each other, both starting.. and most people could not understand why,
> or how they could remove the old one (they couldn't!).
>
> And when things could not be worse... ANOTHER Microsoft Dork came along
> and said....
> Lets make a messenger, that will actually be an upgrade of msn messenger
> but lets call it
> something else so we can at last totally confuse everyone! Lets call it
> Live messenger!
> Lets give it a face lift and use some ripped off technologies like
> foldershareing!
>
> To make things worse listen to this:
> Windows messenger cannot be installed on windows98 you can only install
> msn messenger 5
> Windows messenger cannot be installed on Win2000 you can only install msn
> messenger 7.0
> on XP you have windows messenger weather you like it or not, and you can
> install either 7.5
> or messenger live 8.x...On Vista only 8.0 can be installed but it has
> issues so you are better off installing 8.1 beta!
>
> Simple right?
>
> Don't tell me this confuses you? If I was in charge in MS, I would give
> all those dorks the BOOT.
> They have made a mess of everything.
>
>
>
> <JoJo> wrote in message news:%23FXXJTcGHHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Folks:
>>
>>
>> Appreciate if someone could tell me the differences among the following 3
>> application programs :
>>
>> * Windows Messenger 5.1
>> * MSN Messenger 7.5
>> * Windows Live messenger 8.0
>>
>> Just downloaded all 3 of these programs from Microsoft's site & cannot
>> decide which one to install.
>>
>> * What are the basic differences (if any) between the messaging programs
>> ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jo.
>>
>
>