Ministry of Messages Worded Sillily

The new MSN IM client features the following message when you start an IM conversation:

I thought that this was the point.
Click for full size

The conversation can be seen at more than one place?  Unlike previous versions, which did not display on a recipient’s computer and MSN IM instead used an Eliza-like algorithm to fake up responses to your queries.

No, I know, it’s to let you know that you are logged into the service on multiple PCs (a good feature to have if you happen to be logged into more than one PC at a given time, like, I don’t know, a software tester in a lab).  But the text itself doesn’t indicate that.  It just says that more than one place sees the words you type.  Like it’s supposed to.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 at 5:17 am by The Director and is filed under Miscellany. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

No Responses to “Ministry of Messages Worded Sillily”

  1. pberry Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 7:44 am

    Also, should be “in” rather than “at”.