Comments on: Why Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger Won’t Succeed

By: michael

michael — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:52:33 +0000

Jason, this blog was made 4 years ago. Hate to burst your bubble.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:01:17 +0000

You do know that MSN messenger (windows live messenger) holds 61% of the IM population right? while yahoo and aim each hold less than 30%. AIM is only popular in north america… nowhere else. So to say that “everyone” uses AIM is pretty far off.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:09:18 +0000

I have absolutely no idea what you’re on about, but this link came up when I GOOGLED “msn messenger not all the other shit”.

Hey, worse things happen at sea.

So I heard.

By: iLewis

iLewis — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:22:01 +0000

Your right. I live in the uk and ive never herd of AIM. but i still use hotmail.

By: Lewis Brookfield

Lewis Brookfield — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:19:38 +0000

I’m always going to use Windows. It’s the worlds largest OS! But there program’s can be a big letdown. I use Mozilla Firefox not IE. I use Adobe Fireworks insted of Paint. The only app i do use is the Messenger.

By: Don Zafir

Don Zafir — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:47:12 +0000

Although I agree about what you said about the WLM’s cluttered interface,
you have some facts wrong (as of June 2009):

1. You CAN use WLM with Yahoo or Gmail email. No Hotmail needed. Go to Passport.Net and register your email to use with WLM. That’s how I use it.

2. And NOBODY uses AIM protocol. Most people went to the Yahoo or old MSN Messenger camp. AIM/AOL is simply unknown outside the US.

3. Not everybody like tabbed IM interface. It requires an extra mouse movement and click just to get to the correct IM tab.

4. WLM protocol is actually accessible from GAIM/Pidgin/Adium/YahooMessenger and virtually every other IM client.

You are just an average college student and sad Mac fanboy. Get a life.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:14:05 +0000

This article is talking as if MSN messenger hadn’t already been around for 6 years.

By: Alan Speechley

Alan Speechley — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:25:49 +0000

@paul: you and your friends and schoolmates are not a representative sample. None of my friends use Trillian or AIM or Yahoo, neither did anyone do so when I was in school! Those apps sure have a long way to go.

Welcome to outside the US. Where AIM and, all the open source efforts for Linux tards to use AIM, are meaningless and worthless.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:56:00 +0000

i CANNOT make a stinkin windows live messenger caues it says it has a stupid error and thats just retarded cause my twin made one i cant freakin make one…….its soooo retarded!!

By: chander

chander — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:03:54 +0000

HI, I cant under sttand why my windowlive not show me IBox when i clik then he disapper

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:20:13 +0000

@anon – they still have a long way to go.. _none_ of my friends or anyone I know of in person, and at school, uses it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:13:25 +0000

So i gotta ask, now that Messenger is on version 9, and with over 294 million users, do you feel anything about the fact you were wrong? or is it just chalked up to a failure? I’m wondering because your entire argument doesn’t seem like a teenage fit, but rather though out and well put, it’s actually a pity you were completely off the bat since it could have been a great foresight otherwise.

By: job

job — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:03:00 +0000

i typed in yahoo search why windows live one care sucks ass, and it brought me here. Now im here, i would like to vent about how bad this firewall whatever it is sucks. this thing wastes my dvd discs asking to back up new files everyday and it takes 2hr’s a session to complete microsoft sucks but im not in the market for a new comp or os so what do you guys recommend for a firewall that don’t ask you to back up stuff every day and waste discs?

By: josh

josh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:51:11 +0000

um not supporting Microsoft or nothing but you can sign up for wlm account with a gmail and a yahoo email address i have many of both

By: Welcome

Welcome — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:12:55 +0000

Years later — I’m already used to Windows Live Messenger. Now the older one feels old whenever I use it, but it feels like the same old WLM.

By: InCanada

InCanada — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:54:53 +0000

Hello,

Nobody in Canada or Europe or South America uses AIM, only MSN Messenger.

I don’t even know what AIM looks like

So I think you are incorrect.

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By: Jack Ryan

Jack Ryan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:08:23 +0000

Sounds to me like you just want to make yourself believe it’s not good enough and you’re just being picky.

By: R

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:41:50 +0000

I wanted to add my MSN friends to my Trillian app, but it expects a @hotmail.com and on MS website I can only open an account with @live.com

By: VÃÃ°ir (Icelander)

VÃÃ°ir (Icelander) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:20:42 +0000

Just wanted to let you know that although MSN isn’t that popular over there in the USA, it’s the preferred IM in Europe.

By: maddy

maddy — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:09:05 +0000

Hi dear, I want to chat with windows live messenger by chat group but It is not founding. please send me it.

By: Ruan

Ruan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:44:40 +0000

The last well-written Microsoft product was Dos 3.3. I rest my case.

By: maximus pontifix

maximus pontifix — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:34:49 +0000

the interface in WLM 9 is da*n ugly too much ads and all that other crap. its just a chat client, i don’t see why people want all those colored nicknames and whatever else. there’s nothing like a clean interface like os x “Microsoft Messenger” with no ads whatsoever.. although i agree that adium is way better, although i don’t use it because i don’t know how to keep chat logs… anyways nice job with the MS rep. and her excuses for ads

By: Mat

Mat — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:27:02 +0000

Hi, im taking a guess your american right? because us in canada use WLM. also, theres quite a few programs ton modify WLM to not have adds for example. Just the name a couple, mess patch, stuffplug3 and live plus.

By: Elric

Elric — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:06:00 +0000

Um …just a point here. You do realise that the MSN (now Windows Live) buddy list is infact able to be accessed by a variety of clients inluding Pidgin – formerly known as GAIM. Not that I’m overly caught up on the old IM’ing fad anyhow.

As to the jab at Vista (it really does boggle the mind how many imbeciles seems to be screaming at it, but anyhow) anyone who is even remotely involved in the graphics-based industries, we really only really have 2 OS’s to choose from – and if some even mentions either GIMP or GMAX I’ll slap them!! – and so long as Steve Jobs and his merry following of iPod clones are shaping Apple, there are many of us who won’t be making that switch any time soon!!