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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Microsoft to turn off Windows Messenger on 15 March

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20984820

I won't be changing to skype, can't stand it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I noticed this when signing in today.

I know nothing of skype, is it really no good?

I wonder why MSN is being turned off? No money in it maybe?

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

See also

http://www.fabswingers.com/forum/lounge/143683

Not used skype, but msn did mess my pc up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I swapped to Skype last year as I have always

Found it better. MSN I only used for one person and the video was a pain.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

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By *ixenSubminxiveWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed? "

Instead of Hotmail there is a new email service called Outlook, they were building a new email system from scratch rather than trying to fix hotmail. If you have a hotmail account you will login via the new Outlook service. Can't remember if they are getting rid of the hotmail email addresses though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First night on skype instead of msn ..... verdict ... shocking !

see other thread

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to use MSN in the old days when swingingheaven went down and we all switched to MSN till it came back up (you'd probably remember that Tony). I haven't fired it up in years now though, and I don't use Skype at all so it makes no difference to me.

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Don't have it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

Instead of Hotmail there is a new email service called Outlook, they were building a new email system from scratch rather than trying to fix hotmail. If you have a hotmail account you will login via the new Outlook service. Can't remember if they are getting rid of the hotmail email addresses though. "

They better bloody not!! I use my hotmail account as my main email account.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

Instead of Hotmail there is a new email service called Outlook, they were building a new email system from scratch rather than trying to fix hotmail. If you have a hotmail account you will login via the new Outlook service. Can't remember if they are getting rid of the hotmail email addresses though. "

Nope not yet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

apologies for mentioning the 'other site' ... I've been here for years and years and years now so the 'old days' was the bad old days.. these are a good old days.. er.. good new days.. .er... sorry.

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

Instead of Hotmail there is a new email service called Outlook, they were building a new email system from scratch rather than trying to fix hotmail. If you have a hotmail account you will login via the new Outlook service. Can't remember if they are getting rid of the hotmail email addresses though.

They better bloody not!! I use my hotmail account as my main email account. "

me too

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By *adgeeMan
over a year ago

Sw Scotland


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

Instead of Hotmail there is a new email service called Outlook, they were building a new email system from scratch rather than trying to fix hotmail. If you have a hotmail account you will login via the new Outlook service. Can't remember if they are getting rid of the hotmail email addresses though.

They better bloody not!! I use my hotmail account as my main email account.

me too "

And me. I haven't used MSN messenger for a while but I do use it as an email account

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not had a problem with skype

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Well im not quite sure whats happened on mine, my email seems to have changed over to outlook and i do have skype installed. Ive had two conversatins on it but not sure how to type on it like msn.

I had a letter from a friend at christmas with her email addy in, i got round to messaging her yesterday and the email came up with the postfailure thing. I checked and checked id copied the right email down. Apart from her the only other emails ive sent was to people already in my list. I did reply to the one my sister sent yesterday went to send it and it said i needed to put the address in which i did. But everything is usually automatic when you reply.

So whether its beginners hiccups i dont know

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I don't like skype just because I took an instant dislike to the UI

I also won't be swapping to skype just because "Microsoft's acquisition of Skype in October 2011 for £5.3bn"

I am seriously thinking of moving away from Microsoft altogether now as i'm also getting bored of Windows 7 and there is no way i'm trying windows 8 again as didn't like that either.

Linux Ubuntu here I come!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Oh another funny thin, I was going to get a nokia 900 but not going to bother now as it's got MS OP on it but took a dislike to MS now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Skype is far better and safer than MSN, thats why there turning off MSN, it gets hacked easily

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

Instead of Hotmail there is a new email service called Outlook,

They better bloody not!! I use my hotmail account as my main email account. "

Same here!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well Skype is better than any of them and does far more , been using it for must be 7 years now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Well Skype is better than any of them and does far more , been using it for must be 7 years now "

me too, and i've been using it to talk to someone on there phone for over two years now, im not sure how to transfer over my contacts from MSN yet though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

....what will happen with any messages you are keeping on your existing hotmail account??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"....what will happen with any messages you are keeping on your existing hotmail account??

"

I think Hotmail and MSN are two different things, ones an email account and the other is the messenger, the email accounts are not changing i believe

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By *av1970Man
over a year ago

Tattershall

moved mine to skype few weeks ago....lasted approximately a week...it is a diabolical system, i couldn't access anything, find anything or locate any of my email contacts....instant delete and told everybody to contact me on a new yahoo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"moved mine to skype few weeks ago....lasted approximately a week...it is a diabolical system, i couldn't access anything, find anything or locate any of my email contacts....instant delete and told everybody to contact me on a new yahoo"

then you never did it right

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hotmail and other Microsoft sign-ons all come under the umbrella of a "Windows Live" account which you can use to log on to skype as well

As far as I know, though, hotmail is not being stopped

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I scrapped MSN, Hotmail, Etc years ago.

My PC still uses XP as I don't like any of the upgrades. Have been using Outlook at work since the early 90's. I tend to use my iPhone on a daily basis for nearly everything.

As my family are spread around the world I have been using Skype for some time now with no problems.

When I first joined the computer age I was taken in with Microsoft and thought they were going to take over the planet. But that was I'm the late 80's and I have gradually phased them out over the years.

So no change for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed? "

No. They will be migrated to outlook.com but your email address will continue to work.

M

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

does this mean i have to readd all my contacts now to skype lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

No. They will be migrated to outlook.com but your email address will continue to work.

M"

Do you know if the migration will include historic emails?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"does this mean i have to readd all my contacts now to skype lol"

i think once they change over, all your contacts will be transfered over, if you want them to be, emails wont be affected

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By *habsMan
over a year ago

Fortress of Solitude, Middlesex


"does this mean i have to readd all my contacts now to skype lol

i think once they change over, all your contacts will be transfered over, if you want them to be, emails wont be affected"

Automatically? I'm trying to move mine over.. but it seems the skype service can migrate email contacts from all sorts of services including facebook.. but not hotmail or windows live. lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

this worries me lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

No. They will be migrated to outlook.com but your email address will continue to work.

M

Do you know if the migration will include historic emails?"

Yes it does.

J

P.S I said nope first

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Try kik messenger developed for mobiles i use it for folk i chat too here best bit is you do not give numbers. Just add the username they use on it i quite like it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"does this mean i have to readd all my contacts now to skype lol

i think once they change over, all your contacts will be transfered over, if you want them to be, emails wont be affected

Automatically? I'm trying to move mine over.. but it seems the skype service can migrate email contacts from all sorts of services including facebook.. but not hotmail or windows live. lol."

No no lol

Your windows ID works to sign into Skype eg you need to do nothing

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By *habsMan
over a year ago

Fortress of Solitude, Middlesex


"does this mean i have to readd all my contacts now to skype lol

i think once they change over, all your contacts will be transfered over, if you want them to be, emails wont be affected

Automatically? I'm trying to move mine over.. but it seems the skype service can migrate email contacts from all sorts of services including facebook.. but not hotmail or windows live. lol.

No no lol

Your windows ID works to sign into Skype eg you need to do nothing"

Lol.. I've buggered it we;;; and truly:

1. First attempt Skype required the existing hotmail email to login with... but it could not recognise the password, and the password recovery email always expires before you can reset on the Skype site (turns out its a Skype problem as there's loads of forum threads there that do the same).

2) Second attempt was easier to create a new skype id (nothing at all like the hotmail address) and (somehow) managed to get all my contacts from said hotmail.

3) Now to go back and fix the actual hotmail-migrate-to-skype-id with the buggered password: Awesome - I can now login! ... Except for the fact this now does not have my contacts migrated even though its the same skype id as my hotmail. Oh well!

... Just my experience if I had to blog about what happened some weeks back

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By *olfcartweaselCouple
over a year ago

Melrose

Hotmail isn't going anywhere. But the outlook.com interface is *much* nicer than hotmail.com, I'd recommend people switch there. You keep your old address, you just get a better web site to access it with.

Now, for Skype, you can log into it with your same MSN account as before. Your old contacts will stay. The only difference, if you don't want to use Skype's phone features, is the app you use. And if you use an unofficial MSN app like Pidgin or Trillian, those will keep working until at least October, in theory.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"does this mean i have to readd all my contacts now to skype lol

i think once they change over, all your contacts will be transfered over, if you want them to be, emails wont be affected

Automatically? I'm trying to move mine over.. but it seems the skype service can migrate email contacts from all sorts of services including facebook.. but not hotmail or windows live. lol.

No no lol

Your windows ID works to sign into Skype eg you need to do nothing

Lol.. I've buggered it we;;; and truly:

1. First attempt Skype required the existing hotmail email to login with... but it could not recognise the password, and the password recovery email always expires before you can reset on the Skype site (turns out its a Skype problem as there's loads of forum threads there that do the same).

2) Second attempt was easier to create a new skype id (nothing at all like the hotmail address) and (somehow) managed to get all my contacts from said hotmail.

3) Now to go back and fix the actual hotmail-migrate-to-skype-id with the buggered password: Awesome - I can now login! ... Except for the fact this now does not have my contacts migrated even though its the same skype id as my hotmail. Oh well!

... Just my experience if I had to blog about what happened some weeks back "

Awww well I have something to make you feel better I am sure

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Hotmail isn't going anywhere. But the outlook.com interface is *much* nicer than hotmail.com, I'd recommend people switch there. You keep your old address, you just get a better web site to access it with.

Now, for Skype, you can log into it with your same MSN account as before. Your old contacts will stay. The only difference, if you don't want to use Skype's phone features, is the app you use. And if you use an unofficial MSN app like Pidgin or Trillian, those will keep working until at least October, in theory."

But the only issue they have yet to tackle is people like me, who have both existing Skype ID's and MSN, they can't be merged.

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By *olfcartweaselCouple
over a year ago

Melrose


"Hotmail isn't going anywhere. But the outlook.com interface is *much* nicer than hotmail.com, I'd recommend people switch there. You keep your old address, you just get a better web site to access it with.

Now, for Skype, you can log into it with your same MSN account as before. Your old contacts will stay. The only difference, if you don't want to use Skype's phone features, is the app you use. And if you use an unofficial MSN app like Pidgin or Trillian, those will keep working until at least October, in theory.

But the only issue they have yet to tackle is people like me, who have both existing Skype ID's and MSN, they can't be merged."

They ought to support merging. Pretty sure when you sign in with your MSN account, it offers to let you merge the account to a Skype account.

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West


"I noticed this when signing in today.

I know nothing of skype, is it really no good?

I wonder why MSN is being turned off? No money in it maybe?"

Its VERY hit and miss...we will try the google version instead.

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

Does this mean that all MSN is closing including our email addy's. ?

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West


"Does this mean that all MSN is closing including our email addy's. ? "

No..everything is staying the same really..its just that Microsoft are using Skype as the platform for Instant messages and cams etc..

Skype are probably hoping that more people will sign up for they paid service in the future maybe...who knows, but I wont be bothering..the delay on Skypes voice chat is bad enough, good knows what the video will be like

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By *luespartanMan
over a year ago

crawley

I guess everyone could go to Yahoo they have a messenger system for chat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does this mean that all MSN is closing including our email addy's. ?

No..everything is staying the same really..its just that Microsoft are using Skype as the platform for Instant messages and cams etc..

Skype are probably hoping that more people will sign up for they paid service in the future maybe...who knows, but I wont be bothering..the delay on Skypes voice chat is bad enough, good knows what the video will be like

"

then you mustnt have a very good comnection, i talk to a lady from america everyday on skype, video and voice are perfect

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By *habsMan
over a year ago

Fortress of Solitude, Middlesex


"Does this mean that all MSN is closing including our email addy's. ?

No..everything is staying the same really..its just that Microsoft are using Skype as the platform for Instant messages and cams etc..

Skype are probably hoping that more people will sign up for they paid service in the future maybe...who knows, but I wont be bothering..the delay on Skypes voice chat is bad enough, good knows what the video will be like

"

Exactly - did you see how bad it was when people were skyping their comments on (whats it called?) .. Xtra-factor? Shocking delays!

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By *olfcartweaselCouple
over a year ago

Melrose

The latest I hear from my industry contacts:

* Official MSN app will be killed off in March 2013, to move people to Skype (except in China)

* Third-party desktop apps, like Trillian or Pidgin, may cease to work in October 2013, depending on which MSN servers they connect to - the one they're meant to, or the one they're not. If they use the one they're not meant to, then see below

* Devices which embed MSN support, such as Windows Phone 7, should be fine until March 2014, when the final MSNP servers get turned off

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By *igbadseedMan
over a year ago

hertford


"does this mean i have to readd all my contacts now to skype lol"

I have just changed to Skype seems ok no problems when you start up you can move all your Hotmail - yahoo - what ever you have on your msn to skype - as I said I did it - it does take about 24 hours for all your contacts to come through ( which did have me a little worried for a while ) - hope that helps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"does this mean i have to readd all my contacts now to skype lol

I have just changed to Skype seems ok no problems when you start up you can move all your Hotmail - yahoo - what ever you have on your msn to skype - as I said I did it - it does take about 24 hours for all your contacts to come through ( which did have me a little worried for a while ) - hope that helps "

could i ask how you transfered them over please, im struggling to do it, you can pm me if you like

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By *ovecpl69Couple
over a year ago

london

skype the way forward... its every where now computers, mobile fones, and on most TVs infact i think all TVs will have it built in come the next few years the future looks bright with skype

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

Ive got it but hav'nt used it much,from what ive seen so far it does'nt look as smooth as msn did and I can't see anywhere I can attach and send pics and links like I could with msn,so right now im not too impressed with it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Ive got it but hav'nt used it much,from what ive seen so far it does'nt look as smooth as msn did and I can't see anywhere I can attach and send pics and links like I could with msn,so right now im not too impressed with it"

ive used it for ages now, its far better than msn, you can send pics etc,just look in conversation then attach a file thats how you send pics

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does this mean our hotmail accounts will be closed?

No. They will be migrated to outlook.com but your email address will continue to work.

M"

you just might find that one morning you cannot access your account, the password doesnt work, security question is in French (and correct answer doesnt work) ... happened to me this morning ... sorted out in an hour though so fair play to them

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago


"Ive got it but hav'nt used it much,from what ive seen so far it does'nt look as smooth as msn did and I can't see anywhere I can attach and send pics and links like I could with msn,so right now im not too impressed with it

ive used it for ages now, its far better than msn, you can send pics etc,just look in conversation then attach a file thats how you send pics"

Thanks I need to look more closely,im sure ill get used to it in time

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West


"Does this mean that all MSN is closing including our email addy's. ?

No..everything is staying the same really..its just that Microsoft are using Skype as the platform for Instant messages and cams etc..

Skype are probably hoping that more people will sign up for they paid service in the future maybe...who knows, but I wont be bothering..the delay on Skypes voice chat is bad enough, good knows what the video will be like

then you mustnt have a very good comnection, i talk to a lady from america everyday on skype, video and voice are perfect "

Shocking delay on ours..but then we only get 2.5 mb...pretty slow, Skype suggest at least 4...so we will probably have to look for something else

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By *habsMan
over a year ago

Fortress of Solitude, Middlesex

Just a quick update!

Anyone with a Hotmail email address would have received an email from Microsoft with a link to download the new version of Skype (this has the messenger contacts migration module included).

Once you install/upgrade Skype, you log in with your actual Hotmail/Live messenger email address and follow the 2-4 clicks that automatically imports your contacts: all done in less than 1 minute!

Sweet - and I'm one of Microsoft's biggest critics

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just a quick update!

Anyone with a Hotmail email address would have received an email from Microsoft with a link to download the new version of Skype (this has the messenger contacts migration module included).

Once you install/upgrade Skype, you log in with your actual Hotmail/Live messenger email address and follow the 2-4 clicks that automatically imports your contacts: all done in less than 1 minute!

Sweet - and I'm one of Microsoft's biggest critics "

I think my friend done that,,, im still on Live, she isnt...we cant fileshare or webcam...thats what u call PISH!

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

Ive done that...all my contacts have moved across and I can chat with those that are still on msn

I still hate skype though,Im not a cammer and I think thats all its good for really

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By *habsMan
over a year ago

Fortress of Solitude, Middlesex


"Ive done that...all my contacts have moved across and I can chat with those that are still on msn

I still hate skype though,Im not a cammer and I think thats all its good for really"

Yeah, I like camming but got tired of the cam not behaving itself on msn. Once msn has the cam I could not get it to work in Fabs chat - msn hogged it! lol.

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