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Figured someone on here might know or know how to fins out.

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

The likelihood of this being the correct answer is very small. By 2007, MS San Serif had been replaced by Tahoma, and then Tahoma had been replaced by Segoe UI. So MS San Serif hadn’t been used prominently by Microsoft for almost a decade.

It is possible since MSN Messenger was released in 1999, so before MS switched to using Tahoma as their default font, but I highly doubt MSN Messenger didn’t use the system’s default font, and I even more highly doubt that if they didn’t use the default font, that they didn’t update their font for almost a decade.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

by 2007 NOBODY was using msn lmao

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

OP specifically asked about MSN Messenger around 2007-2010.

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That was fast! Do you just know that or is there source? Also thanks!

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

tbh i googled it and got an ai response. But like you could change the font anyways. Pretty sure I used comic sans

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 minutes ago

Please do not trust AI responses. They are often wrong, as explicitly stated next to the response.