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Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.3

Brief Description
Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 makes it easy to take advantage of the full power of instant messaging, and it is a Universal application built to run on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs. If you encountered a sign-in issue with Messenger for Mac 6.0, you should upgrade to Messenger for Mac 6.0.3.

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Quick Details
File Name:Messenger603.dmg
Version:6.0.3
Date Published:8/21/2007
Language:English
Download Size:9.5 MB
Estimated Download Time: 24 min 56K
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Overview

Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 makes it easy to take advantage of the full power of instant messaging, and it is a Universal application built to run on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs. If you encountered a sign-in issue with Messenger for Mac 6.0, you should upgrade to Messenger for Mac 6.0.3.

By using Messenger for Mac, users can:
  • Chat with Yahoo! Messenger contacts
  • Add a status message that your personal contacts can see
  • Share what you are listening to in iTunes with your personal contacts
  • Create, send, and receive custom emoticons with personal contacts
  • Send and receive custom animated emoticons with personal contacts
  • Search for conversation histories using Spotlight
  • Check the spelling in your instant messages

By using Messenger for Mac, you can see when your friends, family, coworkers, and associates at other companies are online and then communicate with them instantly. Messenger for Mac offers two types of communication services — a personal account and a corporate account.

A personal account works with the Windows Live Messenger service. Contacts that you add to your personal account include friends and family members. Instant message conversations with users are not limited to users who have Messenger for Mac installed on their computers. You can also have instant message conversations with users who have other instant messaging services, such as Yahoo! Messenger.

A corporate account uses the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server service. Contacts that you add to your corporate account include coworkers who are in the same company as you and associates at other companies. Instant message conversations with other corporate account users are not limited to corporate users who have Messenger for Mac installed on their computers. With the federation features enabled on Live Communications Server, users can also have instant message conversations with users who have other instant messaging services, such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Messenger, and iChat users who are signed in with AOL accounts.

Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 includes improved performance during file transfers and improvements to Kerberos authentication. It also introduces support for the Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian languages.

In addition, Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 includes logging for the personal account. Log files can help troubleshoot various problems in Messenger such as connection problems, status failures, and other issues. Enabling logs saves a file containing personal information to ~/Documents. Anyone with access to this directory can open this file. By default, Messenger logging is turned off. For more information about how to enable logging for troubleshooting problems, contact support.

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System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Apple Mac OS X
  • Operating system version: Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later

To use Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.3, your computer must meet the following minimum requirements:
Network access: Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 (corporate accounts only)
Hard disk: 20 MB of hard disk space
Display: 1024 x 768 or higher resolution displaying thousands of colors
Internet access: Internet access might require you to pay a separate fee to a service provider; local and long-distance telephone charges might apply.

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Instructions

Before you install Messenger for Mac
  • Important   Make sure that your Mac OS X user account has read and write access.

To install Messenger for Mac
  1. Print this page if you want to use it as a reference when you are offline.
  2. Make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements.
  3. Click the Download button.
  4. Follow the instructions on the screen.
    If you are using Safari, the file is downloaded to the desktop unless you specified a different folder in the Preferences dialog box of Safari. (To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General.)
    If you are using Internet Explorer, the Download Manager saves the file to the desktop unless you specified a different folder in the Preferences dialog box of Internet Explorer. (To check your preferences, on the Explorer menu, click Preferences, and then click Download Options in the left pane).
  5. If the file you downloaded does not expand automatically, on your hard disk, double-click the file that you downloaded in step 4.
  6. To copy Messenger for Mac to your hard drive, drag the Microsoft Messenger icon to the location where you would like to save it. Then, double-click the Microsoft Messenger icon to start the setup program.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Read the Windows Live Messenger Service Terms of Use and, if you accept these terms, click Next, and then click Accept.
  9. Follow the instructions on the screen.
To remove Messenger for Mac
  1. Quit Messenger for Mac if it is running.
  2. On your hard disk, locate the Microsoft Messenger application.
  3. Drag the Microsoft Messenger application to the Trash, and then empty the Trash.
  4. To remove your existing Messenger for Mac preferences, delete the following file in the correct User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft folder:
    • com.microsoft.Messenger.plist
  5. To remove all Messenger for Mac files from your computer, delete the following folders in the /Documents/Microsoft User Data folder:
    • Microsoft Messenger Data
    • Messenger Corporate Data
    • Microsoft Messenger History

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Additional Information

For information about using Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 after you install it, on the Help menu, click Help Topics.

For additional assistance, visit the Microsoft Web site at www.microsoft.com/mac.

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