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April 27, 2005

MSN Messenger 7.0

Just downloaded the latest V7.0 incarnation of MSN Messenger from Microsoft. It's pretty unusual for me to avoid a new version of any software if it has a free download on the interweb, but I noticed this had a couple of features I particularly wanted.

Firstly, you can choose what status to display to the world before you logon. This may not sound much, but a problem I have is that my ID is known by both friends and work colleagues. So at weekends or on holidays, when I logon, I don't really want work people to spot me and then have the opportunity to hassle me with problems. I'm not officially on call. So now I can happily logon in "Appear Offline" mode, block the offending users, and go online properly for my friends to see me. Work need never know I'm even near a computer.

The second feature is that when start talking to someone you don't just get a blank conversation window any more. You see a few lines of the previous conversation you had with that person. This is very useful for when your PC has crashed while you were away from your desk, or you were not paying attention to a conversation and switched off your PC before reading it.

Two small useful additions, that should probably have been in V1.0, but at least are there now. There are other things, mostly eye-candy and attempts to get me to buy things, but I can cope with a bit of advertising for a free service I've found very useful over the years.

Posted by se71 at April 27, 2005 04:05 PM

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