Okay, this is just a quick post.
I installed the new Windows Live beta a few minutes ago, this includes a beta of the next version of Messenger. Guess what…
They removed customizable display names. Yep. I’m serious. Have any contacts on messenger that you don’t want to know too much about you? Too bad, now when they talk to you they see your Full (First & Last) name. Sure you can turn it off, but then they just see your email address and no name.
And yes, this applies to all contacts. Say you have your cousin on messenger and some dude you just met on a forum. You don’t mind your cousin seeing your real name, but don’t want forum dude too. TOO BAD, either they both see it, or neither of them do.
Really stupid idea from Microsoft. If they don’t fix it, I can see quite a few people moving on to a different IM program over this (I’m considering it.)
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