What's new in MSN 6.1?

[Comp Guy]

What is different from MSN Messenger 6.0 and 6.1?

Any new features, or is it just bug fixes?

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

A lot of the bugs and some feature requests have ended up in 6.1. For example, the audio
issue experienced with some versions if Windows should now be corrected. Users on non-XP
Windows versions can now change their video input in the Tools menu, Web Camera Settings
option [before there was no way to do this on non-XP]. As for pure new features, you can
view conversation windows "frameless" and change the color scheme of Messenger (just like in
Windows Media Player 9)

There's also been some tweaks, for instance, the 'Webcam' functionality now supports
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

 

[Comp Guy]

Thanks.

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Please be polite.
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Greetings,

A lot of the bugs and some feature requests have ended up in 6.1. For example, the audio
issue experienced with some versions if Windows should now be corrected. Users on non-XP
Windows versions can now change their video input in the Tools menu, Web Camera Settings
option [before there was no way to do this on non-XP]. As for pure new features, you can
view conversation windows "frameless" and change the color scheme of Messenger (just like in
Windows Media Player 9)

There's also been some tweaks, for instance, the 'Webcam' functionality now supports
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

What is different from MSN Messenger 6.0 and 6.1?

Any new features, or is it just bug fixes?

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

You're very welcome =).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

Thanks.

--
Please be polite.
------

Greetings,

A lot of the bugs and some feature requests have ended up in 6.1. For example, the audio
issue experienced with some versions if Windows should now be corrected. Users on non-XP
Windows versions can now change their video input in the Tools menu, Web Camera Settings
option [before there was no way to do this on non-XP]. As for pure new features, you can
view conversation windows "frameless" and change the color scheme of Messenger (just like in
Windows Media Player 9)

There's also been some tweaks, for instance, the 'Webcam' functionality now supports
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

What is different from MSN Messenger 6.0 and 6.1?

Any new features, or is it just bug fixes?

 

[Robert A. Matern]

At this location, we could not connect to MSN from behind a firewall... the
protocols MSN Messenger is supposed to use simply didn't work properly.
Windows Messenger 5.0 worked fine with the same setup.

MSN Messenger 6.1 fixed this problem - we can now connect from behind a
"non-UPnP firewall" using our "default browser's HTTP proxy server
settings".

Kudos to Microsoft for finally fixing the problem...

I have no idea if other changes are included in MSN Messenger 6.1, but I do
know that fixes to the connection protocols are certainly part of it.

Hi,

You're very welcome =).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

Thanks.

--
Please be polite.
------

Greetings,

A lot of the bugs and some feature requests have ended up in 6.1. For example, the audio
issue experienced with some versions if Windows should now be

corrected.
Users on non-XP

Windows versions can now change their video input in the Tools menu,

Web
Camera Settings

option [before there was no way to do this on non-XP]. As for pure

new
features, you can

view conversation windows "frameless" and change the color scheme of Messenger (just like in
Windows Media Player 9)

There's also been some tweaks, for instance, the 'Webcam'

functionality
now supports

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com


What is different from MSN Messenger 6.0 and 6.1?

Any new features, or is it just bug fixes?