Tony
Sun Apr 13 07:51:41 CDT 2008
"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@jonathankay.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings Tony,
>
> Although what you're suggesting certainly isn't typical behavior 8.5 does
> have a variety of fixes, including connectivity changes.
>
> However, good majority are for dealing with issues on Vista, so this
> obviously doesn't apply to you (7.0 doesn't work on Vista).
>
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> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
Thanks for the reply Jonathan. I beg to differ a bit - I think many people
had a rash of different problems with 8.1 when they were forced to upgrade.
It's hard to know the numbers, but the reports in this forum alone are
indicative of that. While the problems I've seen may not be typical, it does
seem that the last truly stable version was 7.5, at least in my experience
and based on anecdotal reports here and elsewhere. If 8.5 doesn't improve
upon the stability issues of 8.1 I sure don't want to upgrade, so just
looking for some user experiences here to make a judgement.
-Tony
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> "Tony S." <email_tonys@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:k_3Mj.81$SR2.18@trndny03...
>> When I went to 8.1 it didn't work that well and has lots of annoying
>> little quirks and little tricks you have to use to make it work, but
>> since I didn't use it that much it wasn't worth going back to 7.x.
>>
>> (For example, when I send a message to someone it will sign me out, and
>> then I have to sign back in, switch my status to online again, and resend
>> the message. From there it works OK until I want to send a message to a
>> different person, and then the same thing happens...)
>>
>> Is 8.5 a better product or does it have *more* problems than 8.1? I'd
>> like to know the experience of those who had 8.1 and upgraded. Thanks.
>>
>> -Tony
>>
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