Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / February 2007

I hope that the Mac BU overhauls the interface for Mac Messenger in
the next major release.  There is a lot of wasted screen real-estate
in the current version and it makes the application feel loose and
clumsy.  A cleaner, more compact, tight feel like iChat would be much
appreciated.

Other user interface improvements I would like to see include:

-tabbed interface for chat windows
-buddy pictures within the buddy list like iChat, Adium
-mouse over pop-up for user status messages
-have an option to turn off user-privacy warning in every single chat
window
-expand text input field in chat window to accommodate message instead
of having a huge text box to being with
-ditch the massive SEND button in chat windows
-options for adjusting text margins and spacing in chat window to make
it possible to display more lines of a chat at one time
-option to remove font styling and smilies button in each chat window
-removal of the Windows Live branding
-move file transfer status out of the chat window and into its on
window
-add support for GROWL for user notifications

Anything else you can think of or am I the only person who is somewhat
irritated with Mac Messenger's UI (it is leagues better than Windows
Messenger at least)?

Cheers,
Josh