This version introduced features such as handwriting and nudges.
Application Details:
| Version: | 7.0 |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | http://messenger.msn.com |
| Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.3.17 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Virtually everything I tested, which includes all general IM functions, adding smileys and using them (animated or otherwise), winks, logging in and out and having it work without a crash, applying a color scheme to the program or a picture background, using an avatar (set to small size), and a few other small things.
What does not
Using avatars set to the bigger size, running without DLL overrides, and the tab listing a minimized chat window will not blink when a new message is recieved.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Webcams and some other random settings I can't name off the top of my head.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
I'd give it a gold but I don't know if there are bugs in the other features of MSN. However, it's great this is working. I didn't really care if it worked or not, but the rest of my family sure like having a familiar piece of software to use for IM (none of them like Pidgin or Kopete).
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 07 2011 | 1.3.17 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 01 2009 | 1.1.16 | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Jaime Rave Torres | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 09 2009 | 1.1.12 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Claudio | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 11 2008 | 1.1.6 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Justin Soulia | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 20 2008 | 1.1.0 | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 201 | Igowin: masking problem - image is not transparent | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 3534 | Systray icons are not transparent... | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 5162 | Multiple applications need ITextServices::TxDraw and ITextServices::TxGetNaturalSize implementation (Google Talk, WebLoad, XMPSetup, ICQ 6.x, Kugou Music, QQ, Wechat, PVSYST) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 6054 | MSN Messenger crashes due to missing BSTR length field | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8300 | Title bar shown in window style that does not have one | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8555 | No large display pictures in MSN Messenger 7.0 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 8672 | MSN Messenger 7.0: Can't Sign In | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 9354 | MSN Messenger is Not Showing the images correctly | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 10065 | MSN Messenger Doesn't Show New Conversation Windows | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 10066 | MSN Messenger: Emoticon and Winks menus are showed behind the window | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 10073 | MSN Messenger 7.0 Crash while sign in | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 11941 | No text in many areas of MSN Messenger 7.0 | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 12179 | MSN Messenger 7.0 crashes while starting | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12180 | MSN Messenger 7.0 crash while configuring the Webcam | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12223 | MSN Messenger 7 - winks do not appear | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 12447 | MSN Messenger 7.0 crash while loading the Contact list | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 12965 | Weird border in MSN Messenger when hiding tittle bar | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 13196 | Icons with inverted color or without transparent background | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 15044 | Random crash in MSN Messenger 7.0 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 15064 | MSN Messenger 7.0 hangs after configuring the webcam | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 15334 | richedit: cursor doesn't change when over a scrollbar | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 15435 | Wine logs too verbose, quieter fixme's needed | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 16147 | Webcam doesn't work | REOPENED | View | |
| 16474 | MSN Messenger 7.0: Tabs content not loading | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 16769 | MSN Messenger 7.0 Don't redraw the chat window correctly | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 16770 | MSN Messenger 7.0: Chat window get the focus incorrectly | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 16772 | MSN Messenger 7.0: Scroll bar in chat window don't have a limit | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 16807 | MSN Messenger 7.0 Audio Conference doesn't work. | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 16920 | Automatic download of dotnetfx installer doesn't work anymore | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 17404 | MSN Messenger 7.0 does not sign-in | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 20187 | MSN Messenger 7.x crash while changing the tabs | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
- Set wine to Win2K
- Do sh winetricks riched20 msxml3 flash
Then just install and enjoy it.
