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It’s not really a shocker that Microsoft doesn’t want you using your iphone to get MSN Messenger, they want to keep some exclusivity for their mobile OS.  Unfortunately the Apple iPhone is leaps and bounds ahead of the mobile tech of the much larger Microsoft has been able to develop. I personally have owned and used every version to date of the windows mobile OS on a myriad of the latest phones, and they all leave you asking the same thing, I paid how mouch for this?  Each phone had similar issues, the phone functionality was horrible, you were lucky if you could get the blue-tooth headset to sync in time to answer a call if you were out and about. Or better yet you try and place calls and find that you have to reboot in order to get it dial successfully.  The OS wasn’t fast enough to play a simple low bit rate video without hiccups and snags, if you had more than one app open it crawled, web browsing was worthless and displayed all funky cause webmasters didn’t care about it, and to top it off was a bugger to manipulate something as simple as email.

I can honestly say the iPhone fixes all those issues, but lacks some fairly obvious and unfortunately highly useful features such as Voice dialing, copy and paste, and multiple email deletion. It also limits your email to only holding 200 messages which is pretty lame for 8GB of storage.  Looking forward to the next firmware release, let’s hope they have a solution to at-least one of those issues in it. 

We use MSN Messenger in our office for everything and were hoping that the web based version located at http://webmessenger.msn.com would work for us on the iPhones, want to see some cool error messages try visiting that page on your iPhone.  There are a couple solutions out there but the best we’ve found is http://iphone.mundu.com , which coincidentally you can use it with the big four im tools not just MSN Messenger. We have been using it without issue for a while now and it gets the job done. Give it a shot, it’s free.