Future versions of Windows Messenger?

[Guest]

Hello.

Does Windows Messenger have a future roadmap?

It seems that MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger, have replaced
Windows Messenger for the consumer. And, Communicator has replaced Windows
Messenger for corporate users because of its ties to Exchange and LCS.

Will there be future versions of Windows Messenger? If so, what need does
it fulfill for consumer or corporate users that aren't fulfilled by Windows
Live Messenger and Communicator?

Thanks - Dave

 

[Jason Tsang]

The Windows Messenger team has been disbanded for quite some time.
It is essentially a dead product.

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[Guest]

Jason,

Thank you for the information. In Vista, did Windows Live Messenger replace
Windows Messenger as the consumer solution, and to consolidate with MSN
Messenger? Is WLM a "go forward" product?

Dave

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Dave,

Vista has no Messenger client actually -- just a link to the download of Live Messenger
(which OEMs can swap out with their own partners).

Windows Live Messenger -is- MSN Messenger.

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[Lu C]

Hi Jonathan, you may remember us, our group uses American Sign Language to
IM communicate. Based on reading your observations and recommendations, we
'standardized' on MSN Messenger 7.5 which works very well including a
recently MSN Messenger 7.5 download, for Vista Premium. One of our members
upgraded from 98SE to Vista P., the other members of the group are still on
XP home and XP Pro.
Recently, we are all getting auto.suggestions to upgrade to Windows Live
Messenger.--- Question? Since W. Live Messenger is the latest incarnation of
MSN Messenger, should we all migrate to Windows Live M? --- We are happy now
and would rather not disturb our process, however, one in our group read
that Microsoft may abandon MSN Messenger as they did Windows Messenger in
favor of Windows Live Messenger. Thank you for any comments.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

Great to hear from you again. You can ignore the upgrade notification. Microsoft is still
allowing MSN Messenger 7 and above to sign in (as well as Windows Messenger 4.7 and MSN
Messenger 5 on NT4/Win95).

I don't really think there's anything compelling in WLM (Windows Live Messenger) which you
require. However, upgrading shouldn't break anything as is intended as an upgrade to MSN
Messenger. It won't leave behind MSN Messenger like the MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
issue.

I'm afraid sadly, there's no way to disable the upgrade notifications so you'll have to live
with those or upgrade.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
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