Keep in touch with your friends (Microsoft MSN Messenger Service)

Member Name: Andyp1985

Product:	Microsoft MSN Messenger Service
Date:	03/08/06 (171 review reads)
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Advantages: its free, can talk 2 anyone

Disadvantages: adverts, though you can download software to remove this

MSN Messenger is a free program that you can download off the internet which allows you to send instant messages to people. This is a great service because it enables you to keep in touch with people rather than texting someone on a phone, which would cost you money.

To use msn messenger you need to have an email address set up through hotmail, this is very quick and easy to setup, You can download messeneger from: http://get.live.com/messenger/overview. This version is now live which means newer features, one of them being you can now speak to people who use yahoo messenger.

Other features include playing against each other with online games included in the program. I tend to play checkers, I'd like to play chess, but after the trial, you have to pay for this which i think is a bit pointless. Especially when you could just play someone on a free games website. I'd like to see this feature become free.

You can also get your friend to give you remote adssistance, this is a good tool because they can gain access to your computeter through your permission and they may be able to solve a problem for you. You can regain access to your computer at any time by simply pressing a button on the keyboard.

Another new feature with live messenger is you can now share folders withn your friend, this makes it easier to share files, where as before you had to send each file seperately, now you can share a lot at once, for example share pictures. I have had problems with this feature though and I think Microsoft need to look into this, because it isnt working for me at the moment and I know other users hav had problems.

Overall though, i think this messenger is far better than all the other packages out there, for example yahoo, It does what you need it to do, and at the end of the day, most users use this messenger to any other from what i can tell. I'd recomend downloading this.

Summary: Good freeware, worth the download

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