MSN Client for Mac OS X 77
DrJonesAC2 writes "MSN has released its software client for Mac OS X today. This software functions just like the PC version with a few exceptions (like chat and money). This software launch has its glitches, however; you cannot download it from Microsoft's Mac site you need to go here to get it."
Does anyone care? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Does anyone care? (Score:5, Informative)
Setting aside issues about the evil empire, Microsoft products on mac frequently dont suck. (e.g. look at office) or at least they dont suck as bad like they do on windows platforms. Microsoft's mac unit often puts the rest of the comany to shame.
Re:Does anyone care? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Does anyone care? (Score:1)
Re:Does anyone care? (Score:1)
That said, Qwest has done a good job keeping my DSL connection to visi.com running almost continuously for three years.
So I won't be using MSN for Mac OS X any time soon either.
Re:Does anyone care? (Score:2)
Hi, I see you've never used Powerpoint before.
Re:power point. its just works. on a mac that is. (Score:1)
However . . . the performance of Ma
Re:Does anyone care? (Score:5, Informative)
Shows the value of competition. Microsoft has to work as hard at the Mac market as any other software maker, so they're forced to compete. As a result, Office v.X was one of the first carbonized Mac applications (and used quite a few Mac OS X-specific features). Entourage is cool, Excel is really cool on the Mac, Word is okay, and PowerPoint is well
Re:Does anyone care? (Score:4, Informative)
With MSN for OSX the folks at those companies can use the 'approved' access method insted of having to poney up for their own dialup access. Esp helpful these days when most of the people I work with don't have their own dialup accounts anymore becuase they have switched to DSL/Cable at home for their Internet access.
Re:Does anyone care? (Score:2, Interesting)
MSN for OSX. is released... (Score:2, Funny)
woopideedoo
What's MSN? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What's MSN? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What's MSN? (Score:3, Interesting)
microsoft? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:microsoft? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Dear Apple (Score:1, Funny)
Ha, who says the bible isn't relevant? (Actually is it quite funny to point at your gay christian friends and say 'Haha! You eat shellfish! You're going to hell!' Okay, so it's no
But...but, I LIKE lobster and bacon! (Score:1)
Re:Dear Apple (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I think a lot of people just see homosexuality as a way of eliminating some of the competition (and have you noticed how many girls seem to think that it's exactly the bit of the competition you want eliminated that manages to be gay?)
Re:Dear Apple (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dear Apple (Score:2)
Important development (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Important development (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Important development (Score:2)
Carbon and Cocoa (mmmm) are also closed sourced. They have nothing to do with X11.
Re:Important development (Score:1)
So, I guess I just added some chemical flame retardant to the 'fuel' you added to the other comment. Enjoy.
Re:Important development (Score:2)
The API's have different names. Openstep was the base
Re:Important development (Score:1)
Porting apps is quite trivial if portability is considered as a design factor.
Re:Important development (Score:2, Informative)
Think of OS X as "UNIX plus." Okay? (Yes, this post sounds almost exactly like one from yesterday. That's because it's important enough to bear repeating.)
OS X has most of the application environments that are traditional in UNIX-based operating systems: the BSD environment (which includes libc and the other standard libraries) and X. (X is an optional install, but it's just a download from Apple.) It also includes things like OpenGL that
Re:Important development (Score:2, Interesting)
... which is the reason, I guess, that MS Project is such a joy to use? That we can now be thankful that when Word crashes now it saves a useful recovery document 50% of the time? That Word:Mac v.X is the only non-beta program under OSX that crashes on me more than once a month? (Yes, that's more than the Safari Beta, with Word:Mac at a crash per 7 uses or so.) That Longhorn, scheduled to arrive in 2005, will be implementing features from OSX from 2001,
Re:Important development (Score:2)
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The beginning of the end (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Pay Service? (Score:2)
Annual plan: 79.95
Monthly plan :9.95 per month, first two months free than automatically charged
Narrowband unlimited acces: first month free then 21.95 per month.
Worst, when you are at this page, you can only select one of the presented paying option and continue. There is no turning back (reminds me a marketting strategy...). You can only quit the installation using the X - THEN you are asked if yo
Which browser does it embed? (Score:1)
Does anyone know which browser engine this uses? Can someone with it installed get and post the user agent?
I guess it could use the version of IE that comes with all versions of OS X.
Does this come with popup blocking like the new version of AOL that saw my parents using?
Re:Which browser does it embed? (Score:2)
Re:Which browser does it embed? (Score:2)
Re:Which browser does it embed? (Score:1, Informative)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; PPC Mac OS X 10.2.6; Tasman 0.9; MSN 8.0; MSN Explorer 2.0; MSNbMSN; MSNmen-us; MSNc11)
Re:Which browser does it embed? (Score:3, Informative)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; PPC Mac OS X 10.2.6; Tasman 0.9; MSN 8.0; MSN Explorer 2.0; MSNbMSN; MSNmen-us; MSNc11)
Wow, even longer than most Gecko user agents: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030513 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Thanks. So the answer is Tasman, the Mac IE engine. But 0.9? Either the Mac IE team didn't think Tasman never was 1.0 material or the MSN people forked it earlier. The former I think considering how long it has been out. Maybe the version of T
Re:Which browser does it embed? (Score:1)
na
Re:Which browser does it embed? (Score:3, Insightful)
I've been waiting to switch... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I've been waiting to switch... (Score:1)
Not Mac specific... (Score:3, Informative)
Isn't that a PC/IE trait? My IE for mac never used to give me that, nor Safari.
Hmm, just thought I'd bring that to light.
Broadband Access (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Broadband Access (Score:1)
Re:Broadband Access (Score:1)
define irony (Score:3, Funny)
I just can't see all those Mac users saying "mmm... finally, secure computing!"
Actually... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Actually... (Score:2)
Version number wierdness (Score:1)
What's this version 2.0.0 bit, though? I mean, if it's the first release, then how can it possibly be 2.0?
So, then... (Score:1)
Anyone remember when they made Internet Explorer free, to price-gouge the competition out of the market? Now we see why: no longer fearing competition, they're charging again. Highly uncool, no?
You have to go here... (Score:1)
Ummmm...okay... (Score:2, Funny)
A note to Microsoft (Score:1)
Butterfly (Score:3, Funny)