Windows Live Messenger Mobile synching: too ’smart’ for its own good?
Bear with me while I gather myself here: looks like mild food poisoning from this weekend’s excursion, which has slowed me up today and kept me offline for a bit. I’m feeling well enough to start checking some RSS feeds and I saw a warning from the::unwired that merited a pass-through. Arne Hess cautions us that Windows Live Messenger Mobile for smartphones has wiped out his Outlook contacts. I’m not a WLM user, so I can’t verify, but according to Arne a "feature" to sync your IM contacts and your Outlook contacts might have unintended effects. Namely, you’ll could have duplicate contacts or worse yet: in an extreme and specific situation, you could lose most of your contacts. Check out Arne’s post for the particulars. I haven’t had my contacts wiped, but I’m feeling wiped out so TTYL.
I absolutely refuse to use Windows Live Messenger on the phone because of how it trashes my contacts list. I don’t recall it ever deleting anything, but I’ve wound up with duplicate contacts and all kinds of weird things in my contacts list. I tried it three times before figuring out that it’s slow, unwieldy junk just short of being a virus. Instead, I pried open the wallet and bought IM+. All the chat, none of the crap. And it works with all the services that matter.