The personal view on the IT world of Johan Louwers, specially focusing on Oracle technology, Linux and UNIX technology, programming languages and all kinds of nice and cool things happening in the IT world.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Mercury Messenger V1.8 MSN client
I have tried, not to use MSN for a long time, however now I have failed. At my new job most of the communication between people working at an other location (think a customer location) is done by MSN. At my previous job we used a IBM corporate tool but due to the fact that my new company is not big enough to run there own chat server only for those cases that someone is at a remote location we use MSN. Meaning, I have to use MSN. My big problem was that it is a Microsoft service and I did not like to use it. Why not use IRC relay chat instead of something like MSN? Now more and more people are using it and because of this I have started to use it.
Because I wanted to run it on my Mac I needed a Mac client for MSN. I have tried several MSN clients for the Mac and finally found the Mercury Messenger V1.8 the best suitable for my needs. Mercury Messenger was formally known as dMSN. Mercury is a java based MSN client and it works like a charm, in my opinion. I just installed aMSN on my girlfriends Linux laptop so, including the others I tested and discarded, I have tested several non Microsoft MSN clients and I have to say they all work better than the client presented by Microsoft.
So if you need to use MSN, download a non windows client and start having fun.
1 comment:
Awesome. I can even see friends created emoticons. It works almost just like the desktop version
Post a Comment