The service offers four games: Chess, Wheel of Fortune, Billiards and Upwords. MSN Messenger users, Microsoft with the Messenger update is also introducing MSN Instant Games, a new subscription service that offers games that users can play against each other. The Messenger update is gradually being made available on MSN sites around the world and should be widely available next week, the Microsoft spokeswoman said.įor U.S. Yahoo also bundles its toolbar with the Yahoo Messenger, Gartenberg noted. "Vendors will use all the tools at their disposal to get users to adopt their technologies." Microsoft is not alone. "As long they make it an option to install the toolbar, I think Microsoft is OK in the sense that they are not going to spark any wrath among users," he said. Usage of the toolbar is likely to shoot up thanks to the bundling with MSN Messenger, which Microsoft says has more than 120 million unique users a month.Īlthough Microsoft has been criticized in the past for bundling products, this time it likely won't face any heat from customers, said Michael Gartenberg, a vice president and research director at Jupiter Research. The MSN Toolbar has been downloaded over 1.2 million times since it was made available in January, according to Microsoft. offer rival toolbars with similar functionality. ![]() It also blocks pop-up ads, offers search functionality and a highlighting feature to make it easier to search Web pages. The MSN Toolbar adds a bar with shortcuts to MSN Web sites and MSN Messenger to the user's Internet Explorer Web browser. During the installation of MSN Messenger 6.2, users will be asked if they want to install the toolbar, which is the default setting. The new version offers several minor improvements, including an autocorrect feature for emoticons, a connection troubleshooter and changes in the contact list display to make it easier to identify contacts that are using a mobile device, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Thursday.īut perhaps the biggest change is that Microsoft is bundling its MSN Toolbar with the Messenger update. The update, MSN Messenger 6.2, is the next version up from 6.1. The software giant is also introducing a subscription gaming service in the U.S. ![]() is rolling out an update to its MSN Messenger instant messaging client that bundles in the MSN Toolbar browser add-on.
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