Messenger Mac 8 Beta Released

Zebede · 24 Mar 2010 at 18:58

Finally, it has actually arrived in March!

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One thing I've noticed is that display pictures don't show up in conversation windows and video chat is rather picky.

DELETED_63174 · 24 Mar 2010 at 22:04

Do you know when is the final version meant to be released?

Rudeboy · 25 Mar 2010 at 01:15

I have a problem that everytime I put my MacMini to sleep, Messenger falls over and won't login when I wake the machine.
I have to kill Messenger manually from the command line before I can use it again or shut the Mini down.

Does anyone know if this problem exists in this latest version?

Tilluss · 25 Mar 2010 at 08:51

If only Audium had A/V

JamesRJ · 25 Mar 2010 at 10:36

I have that problem rudeboy.

killsta · 25 Mar 2010 at 10:45

caris_2007 said:
Do you know when is the final version meant to be released?

Knowing the Micrsoft Mac team....about 8 years sound about right?

Maccy · 25 Mar 2010 at 11:32

No display pictures for me

killsta · 25 Mar 2010 at 11:50

Maccy said:
No display pictures for me

Same here

Maccy · 25 Mar 2010 at 12:11

Mine's also crashing after a few minutes of running. Get the lovely beach ball if I put my mouse over the contact window or any chat window. Great.

JonB · 25 Mar 2010 at 12:37

Thanks but no thanks microsoft. I'll stick to my Skype / Adium combo.

JamesRJ · 25 Mar 2010 at 20:06

Seems fine to me

Nikumba · 26 Mar 2010 at 09:04

@caris_2007 - It should be released with Mac Office 2011 due Q3 this year

@Tilluss - There is a plugin you can get that will allow you to do AV chat, I do not know how good it is

Eatchipz · 4 Apr 2010 at 21:38

Does anyone know if they are they going to keep updating this does anyone know throughout the beta or is this the only version and we will have to wait for the final version for all the fixes?

electric ant · 5 Apr 2010 at 16:35

Who knows, my guess is we'll probably have to wait.

steveo · 5 Apr 2010 at 17:02

Tilluss said:
If only Audium had A/V

so true

the webcam on my imac is only used once in a blue moon if adium had a/v it would be so much better

FreeStream · 6 Apr 2010 at 16:19

It works reasonably well but crash bugs are hellishly annoying.

Back to 7.0.2 for the moment...