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title: "MSN Web Messenger - cool piece of work"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/5/msn-web-messenger-cool-piece-of-work.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/5/msn-web-messenger-cool-piece-of-work.html"
published: "2004-08-05T18:04:00"
updated: "2004-08-05T18:04:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "You know what? MSN web messenger is a cool piece of work. You don't have to install MSN messenger to use it almost like in real life. I love such amazing web work that looks like the real thing. Outlook web access 2003…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# MSN Web Messenger - cool piece of work

By Roy Osherove August 5, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 5, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

You know what? [MSN web messenger](http://webmessenger.msn.com/) is a **cool** piece of work. You don't have to install MSN messenger to use it almost like in real life. I love such amazing web work that looks like the real thing. Outlook web access 2003 does the same thing. Amazing GUI inside my browser. It _scares_ me to think how many man-years were spent on making the GUI behave in such a way though. Really creepy.

Isn't the next logical step a Smart Client Messenger? or Outlook for that matter?

(via [Larkware](http://www.larkware.com/))

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