MSN and windows messenger

gtghmgtghm New
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
Is there a difference between windows messenger and msn messenger?

Sorry if this is too stupid of a question but I just don't know?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    MSN messenger is an IM client as is AIM and ICQ.

    Windows messenger is a command-line tool for sending short messages in a box that pops up on your desktop. It's convenient in that:

    C:\net send [name|IP] [message]

    Can send a message to anyone on a network, or in the world. You see its benefits, and its potential for abuse. Windows messenger is now quite a popular form of spam delivery.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    In Windows XP, MSN Messenger is labeled as Windows Messenger... As far as I can tell, they're the same thing.

    That net send command Thrax speaks of is a service known as "Messenger" that runs on startup unless disabled. An example of use would be for a system administrator to send out a message that he'll be rebooting the server in 5 minutes, giving everyone time to save their work.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited August 2003
    I always stop then disable that service. If you are not on a router or anything then you can get Spam all the time.
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited August 2003
    Thanks
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    The formal name for the service being talked about is the Windows Messenger Service, and it started before the current .NET Messenger WAY before the MSN\Windows Messenger as a baby tool in
    Windows For Workgroups whose name I do not remember but the business I worked for at teh time used it on a 6-8 machine LAN about 2 months after Windows For Workgroups came out.

    The service, not the chat client, and NETBIOS werebeing worked on then and it was a DOS process that you invoked from the DOSsy NET command. WFW used MSDOS 5+, 6.0, and 6.22 and surprisingly PCDOS (Microsoft did not like folks running a PCDOS based install sublayer, but it did work-- and I had 95 working also on it, and the OSRs for 95, all on PCDOS except for some accounting boxes which we could also message that way on which got MSDOS sublayers due to the accounting\tax software in use in part of this facility).
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited August 2003
    Trekky8472 said
    In Windows XP, MSN Messenger is labeled as Windows Messenger... As far as I can tell, they're the same thing.

    Windows Messenger has a few more features over that of MSN Messenger. I believe Remote Assistance and stuff like that is exclusive to Windows Messenger, or at least MSN Messenger requires Windows Messenger installed to use it. MSN Messenger is an IM client for all Windows OS's, Windows Messenger is exclusive to XP. They are two different programs. Though obviously similar in many respects. However, the difference between the latest version of Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger 6.0 is obvious.
  • FAH_WWFAH_WW Training in Indianapolis, IN
    edited September 2003
    The biggest difference I think is that Windows Messenger (IM client one) is far slimmer, in that it uses a LOT less screen estate. The biggest benefit of MSN Messenger 6 is that it tends to allow a lot more to work properly behind a uPnP firewall. I can do stuff like webcam, file transfers with MSN Messenger 6, with Windows Messenger 4.7x I cant.

    At home my router's uPnP is disabled so no chance of file transfers (outgoing) or webcam working ;)
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