@mac accounts not blocked from messenger any longer. Good news for the innumerous .Mac account owners who saw themselves shut out of Microsoft/MSN/Windows Live Messenger on Wednesday: the excommunication is over!
It’s a good thing we have on the ball Messers out there, instantly reporting whenever whatever goes wrong. It lasted at most 36 hours until the mistake was rectified and now @mac.com is no longer considered an LCS-enabled domain.
Though during the block, Microsoft ordered @mac users to change their Windows Live ID to either @hotmail or a custom one (eg. your own domain name). No problem if you chose the latter option, because then you can just as easily roll back to your trusted @mac account via this link. However, if you changed your Windows Live ID to something@hotmail.*, you cannot undo the migration via that same site.
If you want your precious .Mac login back like it was, you will have to register the address again via this link. Because I don’t believe you can perform the following step with Microsoft Messenger, Mac users will have to run Windows Live Messenger through Virtual PC for Mac OS X, or on a Windows-based system. Log into your transformed account (the @hotmail one) with Windows Live Messenger or Microsoft Messenger 6.0.3 (UPDATE: Zero1 just assured me the option’s there). Backup your contact list (go to Contacts > Save instant messaging contacts…), log out, and log in with your renewed @mac account. Finally, restore the .ctt file (go to Contacts > Import instant messaging contacts…). And unlike the problem with converted accounts, statuses will appear correctly again.
I’ve successfully tested this myself, but I can imagine this is not a 100% proof method. It would be far better if Microsoft just allowed the accidental “hotmail converts” to annul the operation and quickly reinstate their @mac accounts.
Thanks to everyone who reported about this for your help. We’ll keep you posted on this page.
source: dwergs – mess.be
