Well, once upon a time ago I promised you regular update on WLM 8.0 Beta…<\/p>\n
At the moment, my biggest issue with it is latency.. I send a message, and sometimes a person gets it immediately, sometimes half an hour later, and sometimes it comes back as undeliverable, although I had sent a line of text two seconds earlier that I had received on my other PC immediately..<\/p>\n
I have yet to figure out sharing folders work, though as I am on 5270 part of the workaround is to disable sharing folders; but I could never get MSN<\/strike> WLM to inform the other party that I am attempting to share something, and when I tell them myself, they cannot open the shared folder on my computer… So much for that..<\/p>\n
Nudges don’t make sound on Vista either.. But I realize that WLM is not made to be run on Vista… Not yet, at any rate… So I’ll try to focus on XP.<\/p>\n
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I’m a critical kind of guy. My sharp criticism comes cheap, and my praise comes rarely.. I’m a pessimest, and that’s life. You may disagree, after all, I’m constantly praising Vista; but that is something else. There is much I criticize about the Vista Project, but that as far as where everything should go down to the nitty-gritty details. I approve of the direction that Vista is taken compared to XP however.<\/p>\n
That said, WLM is at the very least a very<\/strong> easy to use program. From the start, it seems to be tailored to be ‘dummy-proof.’ The same way that the move from BASIC to Object-Oriented Programming meant users<\/em> dictated what happened next; I think WLM is the same from MSN 7.5<\/p>\n For example, by right-clicking on your Avatar you can change it. By clicking on your Personal Message you can modify that too. Everything is where you expect it to be; so as far as aesthetics go, its quite a nice bit of progress.. Beyond that WLM now has the ‘too simple and smoothed-over’ of Yahoo! Messenger. AIM was just plain ugly and useless, Yahoo! Instant Messenger looked, felt, and was, too bloated; while MSN Messenger had many of the Yahoo! features hidden beneath the surface. I am sure that many appreciate the move from the slightly harder to use MSN interface, but I personally rather some things to require a bit of know-how; for one thing it makes for a less cluttered design, and at the same time I can do my bit of showing off at parties :P<\/p>\n What I would like to see in WLM though is an ability to remove some (or all) of the tabs on the side!!<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m not interested in Internet Radio, Dating, Holiday Shopping on MSN, or XBOX Live. But I do like the eBay tab, and the news and alerts is acceptable…<\/p>\n How about custom-made tabs?<\/strong> Maybe we can export RSS or ATOM feeds, add a background of our choice, give the bullets colors\/images and give the tag a name and an icon…. Then you can get my Rambles on your MSN, and I can get my hacker-alerts on my MSN :D.<\/p>\n What would you like to see in WLM? Share your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, once upon a time ago I promised you regular update on WLM 8.0 Beta… At the moment, my biggest issue with it is latency.. I send a message, and sometimes a person gets it immediately, sometimes half an hour … Continue reading