Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / August 2006

I've been using microsoft messenger 5.1.1, on my mac now for a while,
but before I bought my mac, I was using messenger on my PC desktop. And
on that you could write messages outside your name in italics in a
different box. I was wondering if this is at all possible in the

While RDC works under Rosetta and performance is acceptable (since it is
network speed rather than CPU speed that is the limitation), there are
several other issues in RDC for the Mac that would require an update to fix.
1. It is my understanding that RDC has an issue with handling ...

Can anyone advise me how I can remotely connect to my desktop at work
securely? My home computer is a G5 iMac using OSX10.4.7. The work
computer is XP Pro on a Windows Small Business Server 2003. The IT
manager is concerned that VPN isn't secure enough. Any assistance would

I am trying to communicate via webcam with someone on a PC.  I am using
my mac/ G4 powerbook.
When I load the current version of Microsoft Messenger for MAC it does
not include information for webcam sending.

Does anyone know how to change the display picture on Messenger 4.0.1?
It's really annoying me having the little blue man as my pic! Thanks, L
x

Is it coming? When?

does any one know when the new version of messenger will come out for
mac, also whether the alternatives are compatable with messenger.

I saved my current settings to a file so that I could just double-click
on that to bring up the Windows PC (runing XP Pro).  This works, but
there is an 80-pixel wide area at the right edge of the screen that is
left blank (white) and is not usable.

I've followed the instructions on Microsoft's website to a tee.  I
cannot get this RDC to work.  I have never had success with it.  Isn't
this supposed to be super easy?  Everyone just says to punch in the IP
address of the XP computer into the RDC window and click "Connect."

All the Macintos workstations (o/s version 10.3.9) grap the IP addresses
from the Windows 2003 DHCP Server. All workstations took more than 2 minutes
to boot up completely. I used a network monitoring tools to sniffed the
traffic and notice that there are lot of 'MDNS' & 'DNS' ...