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the big boss reviews 2009

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Eric Wilfrid, the general manager of MacBU, has posted over at Mac Mojo his year-end round-up: 2009 in review. For those of you who were looking for an update about Messenger:Mac, his post includes that.

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  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    Sorry but I don't buy that "progress has been slower than expected due to the challenge of connecting to the most current A/V code running on the Windows Live servers" Why not just saying it is NOT a priority. @cax

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    I can't force you to believe it.  I can only tell you that it's been a hugely important priority for the Messenger team, and that getting that to work cross-platform has turned out to be a bigger challenge than they expected.  

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    So is MacBU planning on adding more features and change the interface a little or is it going to be pretty much like that "early beta" that leaked in the beginning of the year? And thanks for all the work!

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    Sorry, I can't talk about what will be in Messenger other than what we've already announced (which is personal A/V support).  I'll definitely do so when I can, since I'm dogfooding it right now.

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    Since the beta won't be available until March - will there be a bug fix for 7.0.2? There are a number of annoying bugs at the moment.

  • Other users display pic not showing
  • Nickname changes back to name or e-mail address
  • Slow file transfers
  • Blocking/unblocking/deleting a user does not always work

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    Are the "winks" (called "animoticons" in the italian version, maybe in other versions as well) going to be included in the next version of Messenger:Mac? Just to catch up with the Windows version. I hope so, otherwise it will never be 100% compatible. Thank you!

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2009
    Well,  I was really expecting an update or a beta of Messenger but is it quite good to hear some news. Hope the wait worth it Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2009
    Just that: Offline messages or not? This is making messenger (even the leaked early beta) UNUSABLE!

  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2009
    And how can he blame the video and audio incompability if even the year-old leaked beta has it working till nowadays?

  • Anonymous
    December 24, 2009
    After 5 years... another lie, simply!

  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2009
    I sure hope it has a new interface... The current one is ugly, old, bulky and did I mention... ugly?

  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2009
    C´mon!!!!! In the time you couldn´t deliver a decent IM client, Apple got several OPERATING SYSTEMS! (Not to mention program suites like ILife or iWork)... not counting the fact they are a HARDWARE company. Seriously, they don´t need the "Mac vs. Pc" campaign to make people run away from Windows filled machines (PCs, that is)... while having Microsoft behind them.

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2009
    A bug fix is badly needed. I have encountered yet another bug in Messenger:Mac 7.0.2 When I log in, the contact list remains empty, as if all my contacts were offline (I know they're not) and after about ten seconds i get logged out again. I have not been able to log in at all for a while now. Using WLM under Windows - or a clone like aMSN does work, but not Messenger:Mac 7.0.2