Windows Live Messenger Team spreads 64-bit FUD
Jura, on the Windows Live Messenger Team, just posted an entry on the team’s blog summarizing upcoming 8.5 client pushes to consumers around the world. Okay, in itself this isn’t very interesting but what caught my eye was this white lie:
“A special note for those of you running Messenger 8.5 Beta on Windows XP 64-bit or Windows 2003 Server: the final version of Messenger 8.5 will not install or run on your OS“
BZZT. Wrong, sorry. Thanks for playing. Windows Live Messenger works fine on all architectures of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, just download the MSI and install.
I hate FUD.
Update: Jonathan Kay has petitioned Microsoft to remove the claims and host the MSI file. I couldn’t agree more.
[...] the final version of Messenger 8.5 does infact install and run on 64-bit XP and Server 2003 as proven by Rafael Rivera. To be perfectly clear, the only hurdle prohibiting end-users from doing so is the custom installer [...]
Indeed… even 9.0 will install on Server 2003. :)
[...] 8.5 正式版的文章。但其中有一段引起了包括 Long Zheng, Jonathon Kay, 和 Raphael Rivera, 以及许多人的“反抗”： A special note for those of you running Messenger 8.5 [...]
[...] the final version of Messenger 8.5 does infact install and run on 64-bit XP and Server 2003 as proven by Rafael Rivera and Jonanthan [...]
[...] the final version of Messenger 8.5 does infact install and run on 64-bit XP and Server 2003 as proven by Rafael Rivera and Jonanthan [...]
To the WLM team:
Pls do not marginalize us Windows X64 users!!!
We’re the future and YOU KNOW IT
Wow, even M$ has joined in the “kicking x64 to the curb” like every one else.
It’s bad enough I have to jump through hoops to get hardware support for x64, now I have to jump to get M$ to support thier own OS.
Way to go M$. If Vista wasn’t a bunch of crap I’d use it. Looks like you jumped the shark on that one.
NOT sure why Microsoft believes their new Vista will boost the productivity of any sane person. Its so un-intuitive and lacking any logic in performing even basic user operations I had to abandon it only a week after I jumped on it and go back to the good old XP (this time 64bit). Things a person does in XP with 2 mouse clicks are done in Vista with 5.
That said, to ignore two of the best OS this company ever produced (XP & 2003) is, least to say, an act of foolishness.
I have been a loyal fan and user of xp 64 bit since it first came out. I think it is faster and runs programs more efficiently than the regular 32 bit. Now here to find out that we not only loose more support from the manufacturing companies, but now microsoft. I have begun to hate the road microsoft has chosen.
[...] but the 64-Bit edition as well, this poses to be a bit of an issue for me. Thankfully however, Rafael Rivera hastely discovered that it was not the applications them selves that did not support these operating systems, but the [...]
Simple task. Download messenter 7.5, install it, wont run unless you update, click update, thats it, will run on:
Windows 2003
WIndows 2003 64bit
…you guys are welcome