aMSN

Don't install 0.98.9 if you have upgraded to Mountain Lion. It will give you lots of spinning pizza and other problems. Moreover, when you try to launch aMSN it will tell tou that the app should be put in the trash.

user interface is terrible like we are in 90s. GUI should be changed completely.

tried once a little bit disappointing, actually.

I thought it was worth repeating that as of 0.98.3 aMSN does not have A/V chat capabilities. According to the developers, this is a temporary state of affairs. It happened mainly because Microsoft (yet again) changed the way the A/V chat protocols work, and now the aMSN developers have to catch up. Unfortunately, this also means that you won't be able to use an older version of aMSN to do A/V chat, because it won't work with the changes Microsoft has made. Hope this clarifies things.

Very nice app i like it very much !

This is fantastic! I love this program even more! it was the only messenger for me that would not lag out... I can now close it with "quitting" when i hit the "X" which is awesome i dont have to minimize anymore. It now has voice call!!! its faster and the sounds are quite unique Well done guys!!!

Yes i understand your point.. but some people are just that lazy or are so organized that they really only want one client that does all. More people use MSN and aim then skype, but i completely agree with you. I dont understand why they cannot get video support in microsoft messenger... its starting to annoy me :@

Well, reading all those bad reviews, I must say that if you use aMSN as a simple messenger (no video), it's more enjoyable than the original MSN. But I wonder why bother having trouble with video functions on anything using msn network when Skype works so great on any platform? The perfect solution I've chosen long ago and that I install for friends asking me: Use aMSN for messaging and Skype for video, it's so easy!

Always the same crap soft, always the same bogs always the same problems with webcam/pc WHEN MAC USERS CAN HAVE A WORKING SOFT FOR VIDEO CONFERENCE???? i'm waiting for 6 years for it! and no correct solutions yet.........

Corrupted disk image (?) This is the message I get while mounting.

This second beta of incoming 0.98 dramatically increase the responsiveness of the application (I'm on a G5 iMac with OS X 10.5.3). Still there's one systematic bug, but with a work-around. At the first connection after launching the application I get an error message, I click on "Ignore" then the program goes on but the connection to MSN doesn't establish. The work-around is: quit aMSN and relaunch it again. The connection this time works. This is the reason for my very personal rating 3 stars on stability. Very good is the capability to access the personal MSN Spaces contents directly from the contact list. Still missing the audio, but for the rest this beta release finally rocks although it's not yet native Cocoa. Keep up the very good job, men!

it did crash a few times when i first downloaded it, but it seems to only have crashed when i lost my internet connection. I downloaded v0.98 and it seems to be more stable, it hasnt crashed at all on me yet, you can find it on the website. the main reason that I use it is because it is the only version of msn messenger that supports video. its not the best msn messenger for mac but it is the only one that supports video.

Everytime I sign into aMSN it freezes. Why?

aMSN has gone downhill! It seems the latest version is considerably less stable than the last time I tried it a year ago! It crashes whenever you select the Help menu item (done by accident sometimes) is sluggish isn't sending authorisation notifications when adding a contact. It's clearly a bad port of a PC program, which is disappointing because it's the only option for video chat with MSN contacts on the Mac at present.

It's really a shame that so many people (yeah, mostly Windows users) are so focussed on MSN as their primary IM and thus force so many others to use it as well...! While this app is generally better (albeit uglier) and has more features than the original client from M$ it still has lots of problems...! First of all for some reason it takes like forever to launch...!? Then it places that stupid downloads folder on my Desktop, even though I have changed that setting in the prefs countless times...aaargh...! The (German) localization has several errors, the GUI gets messed up occasionally, video -- although it generally works -- seems to bring down the app occasionally and the whole thing has crashed on me numerous times... Unfortunately the ones of us who happen to have friends, colleagues and family who don't know better will have to put up with all this, since there are real alternatives around...and as long as there are several major IM systems out there, there will always be need for a good multimessenger that covers it all...! But that will probably always stay wishful thinking... (Don't start with Adium or the resurrected Proteus now, or the few options that iChat has in that area -- non of that really covers it as good as is necessary...)

Use this link if you're on intel It's really better : http://notjustanothermacuser.com/beta/

Using Leopard/Safari, aMSN is given a confounding extension: .dmg.bzip2. Since it is not a real bzip2 file, double-clicking it actually creates an archive (not what you want). Just remove the bzip2 extension and then you can mount the dmg.

aMSN has some problems with Leopard. For example, the application always crashes when doing a file transfer. Hopefully the developer will get the fixes done soon as aMSN is a far superior client compared to MSN Messenger.

hmm just tried 97RC1 and it is a VAST improvement over the previous versions ... It seems to be hovering around 5% cpu use while idle and does stutter a bit when opening new chat windows but the interface is actually pretty good now and it doesn't seem to have the same ridiculous ram consumption that it used to. Webcam support is pretty good too. I must admit to be rather suprised by how much better it is than previous versions. Still nowhere near perfect of course but it is actually useable now. A good release candidate I think.

I just downloaded 0.97rc1, onto my 30GB 14" iBook with Mac OS 10.3.9. I can't open the disk image, i keep getting a message saying it is corrupt. I don't have a huge download limit so i'm pretty annoyed >=(