Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.3

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License:Free
Editor's Rating: Average
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Downloads: 207,844
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9
Limitations: No limitations
Date Added:February 12, 2008

Publisher's description of Microsoft Messenger for Mac
From Microsoft:
Convenience is the name of the game for Mac users who want to communicate instantly with family, friends and colleagues from one convenient place. To help you do this, we've created our first Universal application: Microsoft Messenger for Mac. Messenger gives you more ways to share whats on your mind whether you are at work or play.

Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 includes improved performance during file transfers and improvements to Kerberos authentication. It also introduces support for the Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian languages. In addition, Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 includes logging for the personal account. Log files can help troubleshoot various problems in Messenger such as connection problems, status failures, and other issues. Enabling logs saves a file containing personal information to ~/Documents. Anyone with access to this directory can open this file. By default, Messenger logging is turned off. For more information about how to enable logging for troubleshooting problems, contact support.

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Editor's review of Microsoft Messenger for Mac
If you need a chat client to use exclusively with friends who use MSN Messenger, this app does the job, but doesn't offer much in the way of extra features. The tabbed interface makes it easy to organize your contacts into groups like Personal and Work, and sharing files is fairly painless. One of our main issues with Microsoft Messenger is the lack of Webcam support which is almost a must have with many of the new Macs coming with an included Webcam. The sign-up process also makes you jump through several hoops to get set up. Overall, if you just want to chat with other users of MSN chat or Microsoft Messenger, this program will work. But if you want more features, like the ability to chat with multiple chat clients and Webcam support, you will need to look elsewhere.