Using an inferior IM client just for the sake of using Microsoft's network isn't fully justified, especially when they offer these features for their Windows platform. In this case Yahoo! Messenger for Mac or even better, Skype for Mac, get the market share from Microsoft. Microsoft must have been in a hurry, since they 'forgot' that Mac users should also have the possibility to use the video call since most of the Macs have a built in iSight. The list of the missing features doesn't end here. Once again, a similar Windows application has more features than the Mac one and this isn't very nice from the producer. If a Yahoo! contact sees you as offline and the person sends you a message, then these things can happen: either that person receives a delivery error message or the message is sent and there goes away your privacy.Īnother thing that is missing is the 'Nudge' button. If you have a Yahoo! contact, this can be a privacy issue. This is a client issue, because for as long as I can remember the Windows version does support offline messages. I don't like the fact that the option to send offline messages is missing. If you have an annoying contact, you can block it very easily with two mouse clicks. The privacy settings of this client are quite good and well structured. You can pick between automatic saving or you can set the client to require your confirmation, every time you close a chat window. I liked the possibility to save your conversations. The icon packs, used in the Microsoft client, aren't compatible with the ones built in Yahoo! Messenger, so don't expect a lot from this features. Certain features won't work between these two networks such as the file transfer. The intercommunication is not fully compatible. Now with this intercommunication with Yahoo!, Microsoft becomes a challenge for the competition. Microsoft's network, even without this feature, was the biggest IM network. This new release includes the long awaited communication with the Yahoo! network. If you had trouble with logging, this update has the fix for that issue. The functionality modification is actually a bug fix. Today there's Microsoft Messenger for Mac everywhere. When this program was released as the 6th version, it had the old name MSN Messenger. This minor update of the 6th version comes with modifications in naming and functionality. This means a new search engine, a new e-mail client, and of course a new IM client such as this one. This new version of Microsoft Messenger is part of the Microsoft's efforts to launch the brand new Live services and applications. Videos can also be shared in OS X Lion from QuickTime to Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo.Microsoft Messenger is an Instant Messaging client, which allows you to chat with your friends, family, or co-workers using Microsoft's network. To take the Notification Center off the screen, a users need to perform two-finger swipe from left to right on a trackpad or click on any of the notifications, which will take them to the corresponding app.Īpple has taken the Twitter integration found in iOS into OS X, with the ability to share to Twitter from Safari, Quick Look, Photo Booth, Preview and third-party apps that take advantage of the feature in Apple’s API. A new two-finger swipe from right to left across a Mac trackpad reveals a list of unseen notifications. Notification Center maintains the style of its iOS counterpart, but the OS X version is built for a desktop screen, with notification pop-ups appearing in the top right corner of a user’s screen when an alert comes from apps such as Mail, Calendar, Messages, Reminders and third-party apps that tap into Apple’s developer API. Game Center, too, works exactly the same way on a Mac as it does on iOS devices, enabling users to see what games their friends are playing on Apple gadgets and to play some multiplayer games on a Mac with friends who are playing on an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Reminders and Notes use iCloud to sync across Macs and iOS devices to track to-do lists and notes taken in the apps, and in Mountain Lion they look and work the same as they do on iPhones and iPads.
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