Re: [OT] Downloading Live Messenger with Opera

de John Jay Smith 06/25/2006 06:38

direct link towards download
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/9/d/49d8d1fc-d391-4147-84c5-5bea685a1207/Install_Messenger.exe

"Morten Skarstad" <root@localhost.invalid> wrote in message
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> Although having kicked out the previous MSN Messenger in favor of GAIM, I
> thought I'd take a look at the new Windows Live Messenger. So I went to
> http://messenger.msn.com and expected to see an easy download button
> somewhere. I didn't. Instead I got http://ideas.live.com/whatis.aspx
>
> Then I tried http://www.msn.com and easily found a Messenger icon. I
> pressed it, and was yet again sent to http://ideas.live.com/whatis.aspx
>
> The "whatis" part of the URL was pretty much what went through my head
> when I found this. WTF is this? Where's the download link? Hasn't this
> thing gone out of beta? And where do I download it? A lot of clicking back
> and forth and on different links made me no closer to an answer.
>
> Now, this all happened in Opera 9. On a hunch I fired up Firefox, went to
> the MSN page again, and bingo, there was a page with Live Messenger,
> localized in my language, complete with easy download links. I then tried
> IE, and unsurprisingly got the same result as with FF. I even tried with
> ELinks from a Linux box, and I still got the correct page.
>
> OK, back to Opera: I now turned off automatic redirects and started again.
> I went to http://messenger.msn.com and was in turn redirected to
> http://join.msn.com/messenger/overview ,
> http://get.live.com/messenger/overview , http://ideas.live.com/ and then
> finally to http://ideas.live.com/whatis.aspx
>
> So, does anybody have any clue what gives? Are Microsoft trying to make
> Live Messenger inaccessible to Opera users on purpose? Or am I the only
> Opera user experiencing this?