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MSN 7 SuXoRz!!

Post by bio » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:46 am

I've been playing with the crash factory that is MSN7 for the past few days (the final release... not the beta).

First impresson: blah.

On my laptop, it pukes all over itself if I click a link, any link, from within the program. This includes links that are hard coded into the interface.

I emailed MSN support and they sent me a lovely canned reply (OMG... I MUST HAVE SPYWARE OR A VIRUS!!!1). I suspect it's something to do with my laptop (IBM ThinkPad T40p).

I've also been looking into how to create winks for it. This is apparently a closely guarded secret. Since the winks are created with flash, and you can execute code with flash, it opens up all kinds of security holes... so no one's talking on it.

I still have the v6.x installer on my hard drive. It's probobly time to go back to it anyway.
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Post by mudflap » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:53 am

Interesting..... I haven't had any problems with it crashing on either my work desktop, work laptop or my laptop at home.
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Post by bio » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:01 pm

I have a lot of odd software installed on my work machine (oracle, coldfusion, SQL Server, etc.). Not the thing you would typically find on a pc that uses messenger. I'm sure it's a problem on my end.

Nice troubleshooting on the MS part though. :-)
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Post by mudflap » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:14 pm

I'll consider the issue resolved and send you a closing email :)
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Post by bio » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:24 pm

Excelent! I'll rate my total customer satisfaction at 99.7%.
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Post by mudflap » Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:29 pm

Rock on! I am so getting my bonus!












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