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MSN Client for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the o-k dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Does anyone care? by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Informative

    yes, Because QWEST provides dsl via MSN, so its natural to be part of MSN.

    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.

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  2. Re:Does anyone care? by MoCycleGeek · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are some companies who use MSN for their off-site dialup access (Don't ask my why when there are cheaper alternatives).

    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.

  3. Re:Does anyone care? by osxuser-02 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't have to use MSN broadband with Qwest. I have DSL thru Qwest and use a third-party ISP (4dv.net). Not so much for the anti-M$ reasons, but because I get more features. MSN DSL still won't let you use gameservers or set up your own webserver.

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  4. Re:Which browser does it embed? by pmsyyz · · 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 Tasman in the current Mac IE (5.12 I think) is even lower than 0.9. It is strange that it calls itself MSIE 6.0 though.

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  5. Re:Does anyone care? by sg3000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Microsoft products on Mac frequently don't suck

    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 ... tolerable. But they're obviously trying.

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