Chad wanted to Chat

2007/09/06 in bugs, x86

That’s why Chad opened his Miranda client. Unfortunetly he didn’t know that his contact used MSN Messenger 7.5 on Windows Vista x64. But even if he had known this, he would’ve been surprised by the result, that Miranda crashed the Messenger 7.5 on Vista x64 simply by starting a chat. When starting a chat. Yes. In the only way possible by opening a window and typing something in it.

Since Chad couldn’t talk to his contact, he decided to install Windows Live Messenger 8.5.1238.0601, the newest version. For enhanced compatibility. 2 WLM clients should do the trick. Chad hoped that his contact would still be online, after he finished downloading the 19 MB necessary for WLM, because his Internet connection was so slow. Maybe after installation, chatting would finally work. But no. Because Chad used Windows XP (32 bit). And on Windows XP (32 bit), the WLM 8.5.1238.0601 crashes when – guess when: When trying to talk to a contact (ANY contact) by opening a chat window and typing something, anything, whatever… But even if it would’ve worked, after all this time his contact wasn’t online anymore, which Chad, of course, could only verify by starting the at least non-crashing Miranda.

Eventually Chad killed himself, because he couldn’t take it anymore.