After a long while we noticed that mess didn’t had a polygamy patch for version 5.0.0543. shame on us ! But better late then never. So you can download Asdfuae‘s new polygamy patch over here.

Update: Changed the broken link, shame on me again!

[Homepage: Asdfuae] [Shout out to aLuZiNK, LiL FoB and to MaKiT and Pleh Pleh for submitting similar programs]

Microsoft updated MSN 5.0.543 a while ago, the only change in it was that they updated the normal Rich-Edit control to a so called Ink-Edit control. This showed that MS probably updated its Messenger client to be compatible with Tablet PC’s and Smart Display Devices.
That has now been confirmed by microsoft with some visual prove.

A simple human mistake was the cause of the MSN outage on monday. Some technicians were installing routers to upgrade the .net server to make the service more reliable (how ironic). The only problem was that they did it the wrong way causing five hours of downtime on the server. [Source:Internet Week]

Looks like the official Messenger Plus 2 beta download site is down. But have no fear, there are already mirrors up and running for you.

North America: Mirror 1 | Mirror 2
United Kingdom: Mirror 1
Netherlands: Mirror 1 | Mirror 2 | Mirror 3 | Mirror 4 | Mirror 5 | Mirror 6 | Mirror 7 | Mirror 8
Belgium: Mirror 1 | Mirror 2
France: Mirror 1
New Zealand: Mirror 1
Australia: Mirror 1 | Mirror 2
Norway: Mirror 1 | Mirror 2
Israel: Mirror 1

This should do it for a while, Thanks to GZ for giving me the info and iiez for listing the mirrors.

Patchou is still planning to release Messenger Plus 2 today (well, seen from his time-zone). But due the amount of visitors on his site, his web host suspended his account. So please do not visit it any-more until it is back online. If you want to get real-time information visit his forum that is still running.

Spyder, from the Neowin forum has found out the reason why Windows Messenger could freeze if you have Direct-X 9 installed: Windows Messenger doesn’t like the built-in XP Firewall after the DX9 upgrade. Every time Messenger freezes, it adds a new service entry in the Firewall advanced properties list. For some reason it keeps opening up ports.

This also brings 2 ways to fix this problem:
1) Disable Windows XP Firewall completely.

2) Step by step solution:
- Disable the firewall
- Completely exit Windows Messenger
- Run Windows Messenger
- Turn the firewall back on

This should fix this little bug for now until microsoft has fixed it.
[ Source : Neowin ]

This is not MSN related, but you can help Mess.be conquer the world !!! Just look at this blog post, and select the country of your choice. This little part of land will be claimed for the mess.be crew thanks to you ! And after-wards you can take a look at all the other blog posts.

The release of Messenger Plus 2 has been delayed to january 6th. The first version still held too many bugs to be released today.

In the near feature MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger will integrate with Microsoft’s new office 11 series. Users will have the function called Shared Workspace. It will give multiple users the ability to work on one and the same document in Word, Excel or Powerpoint. It will also provide task-schedules and user defined links. Take a look at a sample screenshot here. [Source : MSDN]

The very colourful Messenger Kontrol Center has been just upgraded to version 2.0 and is now compatible with MSN Messenger 5.0 (except if you are using XP) and has a new Kommands language. Great features are nice colour logs, auto responder, mass-messaging, custom alerts and many many more. Get your update at the download section.