Here's Microsoft's official Messenger for Mac 7 page:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx
If it's like Office, it's probably not accessible. Being that Windows
Live Messenger is a Microsoft product for Windows they probably don't
have a lot of motivation to support it on another platform, not to
mention give it feature parity. This rhymes a lot with the technology
lockin strategy. Try to get people to use your product not because it's
better, but because you've made it not interoperate. Same thing Apple
does with iPhoto, iMovie and others. I know one person who bought their
first Mac because they were so enamored with the quality of the Keynote
presentations they could do. You'll never see Keynote for Windows.
iTunes was ported as a strategic move to support the iPod ecology and
boost their music sales, giving them a bigger lever with the media types.
CB
Chris Gilland Desktop wrote:
OK, cause I have heard someone telling me that there was a client for
the Mac that would do it, and when I put it in Google, I did see a few
things on macosx.org, but I couldn't quite remember what the programs
were that did it, or for that mind, know if they were vo friendly.
Chris.
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chris
I think this is a windows messenger only feature meaning this is
windows only feature not mac
hope this helps
Hank
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Gilland"
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Never mind. Yall aren't getting my question, and I dono any other
way a explaining it.
I am not referring to doing a voice chat. I am referring to sending
a voice clip! Those are two totally seperet things. I don't wanna
talk to the person via voice in a live real time voice chat like
you'd think of doing full duplex in Skype. That is not what I wanna
do. I wanna do this where I send the 20 or so second long voice
clip, then they get an IM window on their end saying such and such
sent a voice clip. Again. Just for the record: I don't want to
lively voice chat in a full on conversation. I'm referring to just
doing the 15 to 20 second long voice clips that get recorded, then
sent over msn to the other party.
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Doesn't ichat do voicechat?
On Aug 31, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
As for Skype, a lotta my contacts do use Skype, and so do I, so
I'm fine there. I think you all took a slight bit outta context
what I meant though. I wasn't referring to doing a live voice
chat. I meant just simply sending and receiving voice clips back
and forth like you can do in windows live messenger 8 under
Windows by holding down the F2 key in a conversation window
speaking, then releasing the key to send it.
I just wish that there was a way on the Mac to do this, as I have
people who unfortunately can't seem to get it in their heads that
Adium won't voice clip.
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Yep, people tell me all the time to switch to Adium and then use
Skype for voice communication. Problem is people are using
what's comfortable to them and who am I to demand they use Skype
so I can totally switch to Adium.
On Aug 31, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
not that easy. they don't wanna switch.
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can you just shift your contacts over to Ichat and create an
aim account?
Olivia
On Aug 30, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
The only issue though with IChat, is it won't do msn
messenger, which is where 99 percent of my contacts are.
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Ichat lets you audio and vidio chat. I use that as my primary
messenger and it works just fine.
Olivia
ger.
On Aug 30, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Tim Grady wrote:
As far as I know the only way you can do that now is use
Messenger for the Mac. Adium keeps threatening to add voice
support but it hasn't happened yet.
On Aug 30, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
What I want is to find a msn messenger Mac client that'll
let me send and receive voice clips.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Grady"
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Subject: Re: VoiceOver and Windows Live Messenger?
There is a way to do this, but if you only want to text
message you might want to look at Adium from
www.adiumx.com. At least you can configure it with
Growl. Personally I like a messenger that doesn't
require a lot of interaction to use. You can do file
transfers and check hotmail but it doesn't support voice.
On Aug 29, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Angel Dockham wrote:
Hello,
I am using VoiceOver and would like to use Windows
Messenger for Mac but I can't seem to get VoiceOver to
read the contact list for messenger when I use the
control- option-shift-down arrow to interact with the
contents of the window it skips the contants list and
goes straight to image behind it.
Is there a way to have VO read the contacts list in
windows messenger or is it just not a compatiable
program for VO? or am I just not using the right key
combinations? btw I am running Live Messenger 7.01 if
that helps at all.
thanks
