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Everywhere-MSN being Shut Down because of Microsoft's Jealou

MrWatchDawg   on 08 December 2003 - 11:55 · 11 comments & 1435 views

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Everywhere-MSN also known as E-MSN which is designed for your cell phone or PDA to connect to MSN messenger wirelessly. A lot of Mobile phone service providers such as AT&T and T-Mobile now have the ability to login to AOL instant messenger wirelessly but none have even attempted to except the ones that are now in Smart Phones which have MSN Messenger Built in already. E-MSN was originally designed By Paulo Taylor as a hobby because he used to have to sign onto MSN Wirelessly to get some information from people but could not thru his Mobile Phone, so he developed E-MSN for personal use only, later it became publicly available and gained massive popularity.

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News source: Tech-Critic


What's New in This Release:

· + Import of Outlook Express address items (Windows Address Book)
· + IMAP Fine-Tune option to disable message flag refreshing each time a folder selected (to save time and bandwidth in case of single client and single user access)
· - 0001618 A dot character was added to the outgoing attached files without extension
· - 0001821 HTML-to-Plain routine was converting the title tagged text as a part of plain text content
· - A dot was always added to the name of an attached file without an extension
· - An extra attachment was created due to move attachments between folders when attachments were stored separately
· - Deletion settings were not used for purging from the Folder Maintenance Centre
· - IMAP messages were not refreshed when their flags were changed by a concurrent user
· - It was not possible to define a folder for alternative deletion if ordinary deletion was not using any non-Trash folder
· - PGP v7+ key server search loop (Beta)
· - Recipient addresses weren't imported from Outlook 2000.
· - Selected IMAP folder was not refreshed on new messages arrival
· - A lot of cosmetic bugs

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(3 replies) #1 BananaMan on 08 Dec 2003 - 11:59
Spell check! Jealousy, not Jealou.
#1.1 newsgeek on 08 Dec 2003 - 12:05
I think the news system doesn't allow more than the amount of characters already in the title... which is why the word go cut off...
#1.2 kingius on 08 Dec 2003 - 12:19
Im not so sure, that article contains some of the worst journalism Ive ever read!
#1.3 Homer™ on 08 Dec 2003 - 12:22
Care to explain why?
#2 kingius on 08 Dec 2003 - 14:45
Its full of mistakes, lol
#3 Fowen on 08 Dec 2003 - 15:01
Did I miss something? How is Microsoft shutting down eMSN?
#4 ben_b on 08 Dec 2003 - 15:10
Very miss leading from what Neowin wrote. They are not shutting them down they want them to change there name and get a new domain.
#5 swordfish on 08 Dec 2003 - 16:44
i though they were shuting it down next year sor something, please get a date....


#6 §imGuy on 08 Dec 2003 - 19:25
Well if you people look at the link that is provided. Maybe that can solve most of your questions
#7 chrisxtreme on 08 Dec 2003 - 20:41
mobile.msn.com, you can use messenger through msn's wap based service, just like i do with aol and yahoo
#8 Shovel on 09 Dec 2003 - 00:42
To the best of my understanding, this is not a "shut down the bright eyeed competitor" type scenario, instead it's the "enforce trademarks" routine.

MS, as with all companies, are legally required to enforce their trademarks in all situations as passive behavior toward harmless breaches such as this can be used against them in court if someone misuses the same trademark.

Meaning: If they were to say: "Hey, this is a good idea, nice name, carry on", to this project, then someone else registering "www.msn.cc" or something and misuising the MSN trademark for porn, could use the previous tolerance as a defence.

It's something along those lines - I know only a limited amount about the US legal system, so there may be other technicalities at stake.

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