Msn Messenger
Personal Instant Messenger MSN Messenger
Introduction:
MSN Messenger is a PIM which is developed by Microsoft. It provides a way to let user chats with others and sends files to others. It is free to download and the latest version is 6.2.
User Friendliness:
The MSN messenger provides a user friendly environment. You can enjoy a high degree of personalization, security and a friendly user interface. Degree of personalization is important in PIM because PIM is a personal application, which should be capable of changes to fit in users' desire in represent themselves among all other users, they can also form groups based on similar interests or identities. PIM should be also secure as it is personal. Users hope that PIM can provide an environment which can provide privacy, therefore different measures such as encryption or password should be employed to prevent unauthorized access of users' personal information and message history. A friendly interface of PIM will make user feel comfortable and easily to familiar with all basic and advanced functions required.
Degree of Personalization
MSN offers personalized pictures to represent your own identity. You can also access to your information which is opened to public and modify it. It is possible to set your own status such as busy', display as offline' to allow others know that when their message can be replied. Also it integrates email services, you can use MSN messenger to check and send email, you can check your own message history easily once you enable the record message' function.
Degree of Security
MSN messenger allows you to set your own password, you can either set remember password each time (for PC only used by one user) or type in password each time (for PC with multi-user). For these two categories, some information can be set displayed or not such as index of user.
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