Comments on: MSN Messenger once again discriminating against .Mac users http://macenstein.com/default/2008/03/msn-messenger-once-again-discriminating-against-mac-users/ Mac news and rumors dug up on the web and sewn into and unholy monster Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:47:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: R.D. http://macenstein.com/default/2008/03/msn-messenger-once-again-discriminating-against-mac-users/comment-page-1/#comment-149508 R.D. Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:31:21 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1188#comment-149508 I just don't get it... I can't even interpret how stupid Microsoft really is. Every single thing they do always causes some sort of problem. Every single program they make is complete crap. MSN Messenger is the ONLY Microsoft-related thing I use, and I only use it because 99% of my friends use MSN as their primary instant messaging program, and also because it is the "popular" one here in Canada. No Microsoft, I'm not going to switch to shitty Hotmail to use as my e-mail because honestly, it works like crap and is prone to tons of spam, and I've also CHOSE to spend money on .Mac just to have a great and reliable IMAP e-mail service ending in @mac.com. What I don't understand is, Microsoft fully ALLOWS any e-mail to be used with MSN as long as you register it first, which is fine. I have been doing that for YEARS on a couple of old e-mail accounts ending in @rogers.com. So why are ONLY @mac.com e-mail addresses not functioning properly on MSN Messenger? I really wonder why... is Microsoft THAT discriminative? Doesn't seem very professional for a large corporation. What are they trying to prove to us Mac users? At this point, I don't care if it gets solved or not. I will NOT change my e-mail address to useless Hotmail or Live just to use already-crappy-enough MSN Messenger, not to mention how purposely watered-down the Mac version of MSN Messenger is. Was that "accidental" too? I think not. I don't think not adding video and audio support to the Mac version is accidental. Seems like they want to force users to switch to Windows. Wow... just wow... I just don’t get it… I can’t even interpret how stupid Microsoft really is. Every single thing they do always causes some sort of problem. Every single program they make is complete crap. MSN Messenger is the ONLY Microsoft-related thing I use, and I only use it because 99% of my friends use MSN as their primary instant messaging program, and also because it is the “popular” one here in Canada. No Microsoft, I’m not going to switch to shitty Hotmail to use as my e-mail because honestly, it works like crap and is prone to tons of spam, and I’ve also CHOSE to spend money on .Mac just to have a great and reliable IMAP e-mail service ending in @mac.com. What I don’t understand is, Microsoft fully ALLOWS any e-mail to be used with MSN as long as you register it first, which is fine. I have been doing that for YEARS on a couple of old e-mail accounts ending in @rogers.com. So why are ONLY @mac.com e-mail addresses not functioning properly on MSN Messenger? I really wonder why… is Microsoft THAT discriminative? Doesn’t seem very professional for a large corporation. What are they trying to prove to us Mac users? At this point, I don’t care if it gets solved or not. I will NOT change my e-mail address to useless Hotmail or Live just to use already-crappy-enough MSN Messenger, not to mention how purposely watered-down the Mac version of MSN Messenger is. Was that “accidental” too? I think not. I don’t think not adding video and audio support to the Mac version is accidental. Seems like they want to force users to switch to Windows. Wow… just wow…

]]> By: Dave-O http://macenstein.com/default/2008/03/msn-messenger-once-again-discriminating-against-mac-users/comment-page-1/#comment-149490 Dave-O Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:54:18 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1188#comment-149490 Why would you even bother with MSN Messenger? Fool me once and all. It's not like there aren't other options (until Microsoft buys them all). Why would you even bother with MSN Messenger? Fool me once and all. It’s not like there aren’t other options (until Microsoft buys them all).

]]> By: emil http://macenstein.com/default/2008/03/msn-messenger-once-again-discriminating-against-mac-users/comment-page-1/#comment-149470 emil Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:44:17 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1188#comment-149470 Microsoft has always taken respose through locking out less secure products, like Firefox, Opera and Linux, BSD and Mac OS X if you can't tell, I was sarcastic, by the way, MSN (the site) was locking out Firefox and Opera because their "lack of standard support" a couple of years ago… Microsoft has always taken respose through locking out less secure products, like Firefox, Opera and Linux, BSD and Mac OS X

if you can’t tell, I was sarcastic, by the way, MSN (the site) was locking out Firefox and Opera because their “lack of standard support” a couple of years ago…

]]> By: odin http://macenstein.com/default/2008/03/msn-messenger-once-again-discriminating-against-mac-users/comment-page-1/#comment-149447 odin Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:12:57 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1188#comment-149447 Rofl. The computer you are submitting your error report from is not connected to the internet... but thanks for the email? How does that make any sense? Rofl. The computer you are submitting your error report from is not connected to the internet… but thanks for the email? How does that make any sense?

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