Someone asked MS in a tech chat recently why they wanted to split the Messenger line instead of just putting it all in one client, and the answer was that most people would only want to run one or the other and that they're targeted at different audiences. I don't quite follow this, since Windows Messenger is split between consumer and business customers, while MSN Messenger will be just consumer customers, but maybe the inference was that home users should just use MSN Messenger. I can't imagine why anyone would want both running at once, unless they truly need multiple logins, but then there are 3rd-party tools for that anyway.
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