Hello all, I am back after so many days. I think I am coming back again and again after each and every of my reviews. I am trying to keep my self touch with MouthShut.com but I am not able to, because of very tight schedule, and lots of work and studies are also there. Anyways first of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY and HAPPY VALENTINE DAY to all MouthShut.com Members and Staff.
I wanted to write a review on MouthShut.com since a long time, like every week I start writing review, and I get ends up with the blank page. But this time I have decided to write review any how. So this review is on MSN Messenger which is also known as Microsoft Network Messenger. I don’t want to go in to it’s history or it’s starting I will just review the current version of the MSN Messenger.
NOTE: There are two different messengers, which are using the same network of MSN, 1 – MSN Messenger and 2 – Windows Messenger, in this review I am talking about MSN Messenger 5. This review is containing some technical terms like Internal IP, External IP and other terms, if any one wants to know what are this terms, free feel to M2M me. And one more thing, I am not comparing MSN Messenger with any other messenger, its simply the review on MSN Messenger Software.
Now let’s move to the review and talk something about MSN Messenger.
I liked the starting screen of MSN Messenger a lot, its clean and very attractive and also cute, the Sign In button and that Welcome msn logo I liked, and the butterfly which is flying over the msn is also very cute. But one thing I am missing is that, suppose that me and my brother is using this MSN Messenger and if we both store our username and password in MSN Messenger, then if I login and then my brother wants to login then he needs to type username and password, but if I again wants to login then I don’t need to type username and password again, by clicking on Sign In button I can login, so I miss this thing in it, it should be like this, if I have stored my username and password then it creates my Sign In button there, and if my brother stores his username and password then it should also create my brother’s Sign In button too, but this feature is not there.
Main screen is quite impressive and also having lots of things to do, I liked the new feature in MSN Messenger of those tabs which are placed on the left side of the MSN Messenger. MSN Alert is also very nice thing, which keeps me alerting about what is today and like that.
MSN Messenger gets interact with all the web sites which supports Microsoft Passport. User just needs to click on sign in button on the web site, and that web site, then taking information from the MSN Messenger and let the user login without entering any username or password. It’s also integrated with Hotmail, so if you receive any e-mail user gets notification about that.
MSN Messenger is also having Voice Chat, File Transfer and Web Cam function. Which are really very cool and useful. I have tried all these three functions in dial-up account, because in cable internet I don’t have external IP and MSN Messenger is not supporting this thing, so I am not able to do Voice Chat, File Transfer and Web Cam thing in my Cable Internet having Internal IP, but if you have external IP then you can. This is the thing which I don’t like in MSN Messenger, it doesn’t allow Passive Mode users to use this type of functions. Well, but in cable internet I am able to receive files but I can’t transfer files. On dial-up these three works perfectly, voice chat is very clear and when u first time use it, you need to do it’s setup, which is very easy and provides information on each and every step. Web cam is also very easy too use. File transfer thing is also very easy and you also get that how many KB(s) are still left to receive or transfer, and which is real time stat.
Emoticons of MSN Messenger are cute and very useful. Conversation window where two or more users can chat is very friendly, and provides all handy tools at one click, like Voice Chat, Web Cam, File Transfer and similar functions. If you have Windows XP Professional installed on your computer, then you get some more functions like Ask for Remote Assistance, and other things. There are lots of things which users needs to keep in touch with. I heard that in next version of Windows Messenger, they are going to remove Make a Phone Call feature but it will stay in MSN Messenger, Make a Phone Call feature allows users to call any one in any country by charging nominal fee which is integrated with iConnectHere.com.
There are few things which I hate sometimes and I also love them sometimes, one of them is Screen Name, you can change Screen Name of yours to what you like, but this things creates confusions sometimes, because people changes their Screen Name to such a you can not recognize them, and you have to click on their name, and you need to check their e-mail and it’s not possible to remember each and everyone’s e-mail address at least for me, so it creates prob, sometimes for me, but on other hand its very nice. The one thing I like is Status and I also don’t like, coz Status Messages are not customizable, only selected Status Messages are there.
MSN Messenger, manages your contacts in two ways, Online/Offline or Group wise. And also you can save your contact list, and if you have created new MSN ID then you can import that contact list.
MSN Messenger is also having direct link to MSN Chat, so no need to open Browser and write whole URL.
MSN Messenger provides great support to the programmers, like if any programmer wants to add MSN Messenger’s contact list in the application which he/she is working on then there are some APIs which programmer can use and can load whole list of offline and online users in the application which he/she is working on. Like this there are lots of features for programmers.
I miss one feature in the MSN Messenger is that, if you change your font size then your whole font size changes, I mean by it also changes the font size of the user to whom you are talking to, which I don’t like, because there is my friend he keeps other font which needs to have a greater font size to read, so if I keep font size greater, then my fonts are looking bigger and dirty. So this thing bugs me sometimes.
I hope you all like my new style of writing review, and also you like this review, please rate it and also leave your valuable comments.
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