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Seth Garfinkel
I am not sure that I understand the game plan here. I
mean I was under the impression that the integration of
windows messenger into XP was supposed to open up all
kinds of possibilities that would not be available to the
stand alone product. But from what I am seeing, it is MSN
Messenger that is getting the bells and whistles, while
Windows Messenger has now fallen many versions behind.
That is ok I guess, but now XP users are forced to run
two different versions of Messenger to get all of the
features available. Why oh why are these two products not
being synced up as far as feature sets? It seems like
they are going in different directions! If I want to use
services, then I have to use the older clients because
neither 5 nor 6 support them. Microsoft is all gung ho
about SIP and I really like being able to use my
messenger as a sip phone, but in order to do so, I have
to use an older client! Why has this functionality been
stripped from both the 5 and 6 clients? It seems to me
that Microsoft is sending mixed messages. So now if I
want all the frills I need to run MSN 6, but to use a sip
phone, I need to run 4.7! And it can not be as simple as
the fact that the sip stack is in XP, because I can use
the external services with the 4.7 client on 2000! Why
cant there be one merged client, and why do new clients
have less functionality that the older ones!! This is
getting frustrating!
mean I was under the impression that the integration of
windows messenger into XP was supposed to open up all
kinds of possibilities that would not be available to the
stand alone product. But from what I am seeing, it is MSN
Messenger that is getting the bells and whistles, while
Windows Messenger has now fallen many versions behind.
That is ok I guess, but now XP users are forced to run
two different versions of Messenger to get all of the
features available. Why oh why are these two products not
being synced up as far as feature sets? It seems like
they are going in different directions! If I want to use
services, then I have to use the older clients because
neither 5 nor 6 support them. Microsoft is all gung ho
about SIP and I really like being able to use my
messenger as a sip phone, but in order to do so, I have
to use an older client! Why has this functionality been
stripped from both the 5 and 6 clients? It seems to me
that Microsoft is sending mixed messages. So now if I
want all the frills I need to run MSN 6, but to use a sip
phone, I need to run 4.7! And it can not be as simple as
the fact that the sip stack is in XP, because I can use
the external services with the 4.7 client on 2000! Why
cant there be one merged client, and why do new clients
have less functionality that the older ones!! This is
getting frustrating!