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Video Chat Software Reviewed

Posted by michael on from the cu-see-me dept.

Ryan writes "The PowerPage by way of The New York Times has a comparison of Apple's new iChatAV and Microsoft's MSN Messenger 6. My favorite quote, 'Microsoft, true to tradition, has focused on expanding its list of features, while Apple has worked toward elegance and simplicity.'"

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  1. duh by edrugtrader · · Score: 5, Funny

    of course MSN product is better... they are already on version 6! iChatAV doesn't even HAVE a version number! silly mac freaks.

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  2. Quote of the year by GrenDel+Fuego · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can download them free at messenger.msn.com or apple.com/ichat, respectively, as part of a public beta test - a software company's way of saying, "Sure they're buggy, but what do you want for free?"

    I believe I hear the sounds of a pissed off Gnu.

  3. Smileys by dk.r*nger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Messenger 6.0 has a puking emoticon.

    'nuff said.

  4. Re:SpinDot by glwtta · · Score: 3, Funny
    This elitism is one thing that is holding back Linux in the marketplace

    What's Linux got to do with anything? I thought the article was about iChat. Could you please keep you anti-Linux elitism out of this?

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  5. Re:blah blah blah by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Funny
    If anyone uses the word "elegant" when describing Apple products again, I swear I'm going to get a gun and shoot someone.
    Well, they wore out 'beleaguered'.

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  6. Manuals? by RatBastard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Manuals? Have you actually purchased a Microsoft product in the last ten years? You don't get any manuals. You get a "quick start" booklet and a cyanide capsule and that's it.

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    1. Re:Manuals? by EverDense · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...and the cyanide capsule comes with a CD entitled "Getting Started with Microsoft Suicide 2003".

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    2. Re:Manuals? by EverDense · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...maybe that should have been "Getting ENDED with Microsoft Suicide 2003"

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    3. Re:Manuals? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, he had it right. MS is using a different dictionary; remember how the Start menu has the Shut-Down item?

  7. Needed feature by thelandp · · Score: 5, Funny

    But which one comes with the best auto-airbrushing feature? Many slashdot readers will no doubt need this.

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    1. Re:Needed feature by lpret · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow. Only slashdot would mod the parent as informative.

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  8. Of course it does... by artemis67 · · Score: 3, Funny

    How else would you express to your long-distance correspondant that you're using a Windows-based system?

  9. Re:Useful? by jolyonr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess it depends on the size of the breasts of the person at the other end.

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  10. Re:Useful? by sahonen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Odds that I actually know a large-breasted female who knows how to set up a webcam: I'm posting on Slashdot, you figure it out.

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  11. Looking at this another way- by gotr00t · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course Apple is better. They only took one version to get it right, while Microsoft took 6.

  12. Re:Functionality by prockcore · · Score: 2, Funny

    the irony of your post is that TiVo is powered by linux.