Crass Stupidity » Mac http://www.crass-stupidity.com Ineptitude from the Corporate World Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:32:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Windows Live Messenger for Mac – Longest Beta Ever? http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2009/10/19/windows-live-messenger-for-mac-longest-beta-ever/ http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2009/10/19/windows-live-messenger-for-mac-longest-beta-ever/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:18:29 +0000 Richard http://www.crass-stupidity.com/?p=101 You know, sometimes I wish that Microsoft would simply grow up and get over its childish hatred of Apple and because of that its reluctance to embrace (and potentially embrace) Mac users.

A fabulous example of this is Microsoft’s Live Messenger and their long running and unresolved failures to actually support audio-visual conversations for users running a Mac.

I use both a PC (actually a Tablet PC) and a Mac and I have just bought another laptop running Windows Vista (with an upgrade to Windows 7 coming in due course). On the Windows platforms I can run Live Messenger and hook up a webcam to have a face to face conversation with another Windows Live user.

If I’m at my flat on the Mac, I cannot.

Back in December 2008, Microsoft announced a forthcoming beta release of Messenger for Mac which would offer A/V support in 2009. Now, some 10 months later, there’s still no sign of it on the horizon, far less a final release version.

Pathetic!

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