MSN rant

April 07, 2008

From time to time I freak out about Windows Live Messenger also known as MSN Messenger. First is one centralized system. Everything depends on Microsoft. They’re servers are down. No MSN for anyone. They said you can only have 150 contacts in one account, you have to have two so you can connect all your friends. Then they said you were allowed 300, it was nice but at that point, you also had more than 300 contacts. After that they increased the limit to 1000 and that was enougth for some years. Then you reach the limit and have to clean up your contact list. I know you can have more than 1000 now, but I don’t know how much.

Now I get another stupid error: I got too many groups on my messenger list. Grrr I HATE YOU MSN! Only if my hot friends would change to Jabber as everyone should… MSN can’t even let me be logged in in two different computers :(

Tagged with: en, jabber, msn, microsoft, whysoftwaresucks
This post has 8 comments. Feel free to read them and leave your own.

Levi Figueira
Well... I'll have to agree! I have 2 accounts but I'm planning on narrowing it down to just one... This way I can "clean" my address book by giving my 2nd one to only the people I want to keep in contact with and removing them from the old account! I've had both for a while using one as my "main" account and the other as my "business and close friends" account... I'm gonna get 'em all on the latter one!

As for the problems with MSN... If you don't want to (can't!) use their main app your stuck with a watered down client, that can't have some of the nice features in the protocol, etc... And that really sucks! Plus, the fact that if you login on a 2nd location it disconnects the other one (aka single session only) it's so... 1990s...

Oh well.. I'll keep using it for "one" reason... ;)

Tiago
(Almost) Everybody has a MSN account for the same reason that (almost) everyone uses Windows...They're noobs :P
Damn you Microsoft, for making tech for the masses!

Marco Campos
Do you really have more than 1000 contacts? Dude...

I have a little over 100 and I'm already thinking of removing some.

paula
Well I had that problem until gtalk appeared. From that day on they do not have any excuse.
It was hard to make your friends to move to jabber, but with gtalk I can say to them: well, I have skype, jabber and a gmail account (gtalk is jabber anyway) so if you need to reach me you can use one of those, if it is not enough, we understand :-P

The great thing is that they started to change to gtalk and skype :-D


Alcides Fonseca
@Marco Campos:

I had more than 1000, when I reached that value and MSN wouldn't let me add any more, I cleaned up and I ended with 700. I have over 900 today.

@Paula:

It's hard to convince +900 contacts to move to Gtalk/Sapo/Other Jabber service, specially when a lot of them are people who spend more time on Hi5 than MSN. And Windows Live Messenger it's a given when you have a new computer (or they ask me to install them). I tried to convert some of them to gtalk, but they just don't use it! And not having sound and webcam as easily as with WLM it's a downside in Jabber.based communication.

Manifest0
Se tens mais de 1000 contactos então deves ter um parafuso a menos... :P LOL

Eu só uso IM para pessoal de confiança (amigos, familia, DEI). Quando quero falar com pessoas que se conhecem online ou é através de IRC ou mail (uma das contas que uso como disposable mail.), até porque não dá jeito *NENHUM* ter uma lista com mtos contactos que estão sempre a mudar de nome...

Alcides Fonseca
@Manifest0:

Como fui administrador de várias comunidades, é normal que tenha vários contactos de lá. Quando tenho assuntos relativamente complexos irrita-me tar a enviar e a receber emails. O IM serve exactamente para isso. Quando a lista de muitos contactos, para isso é que eu os separo em grupos e subgrupos (tenho 30 ao todo). Depois filtros os eventos. Funciona muito bem! Tirando os limites parvos do MSN :/

Pedro Melo
With all due respect to your friends, screw them if they think enough of you to use a secondary IM account.

I don't really care if my friends are still using MSN or not. I'm not, and they know that. So they keep an alternative account (most of them prefer Google Talk) and they talk to me trough that.

It's not you that needs to convince them. Its you who has to decide which networks are worth your time.

Best regards,

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