threedegrees

For the soul and disco band, see The Three Degrees.

threedegrees or 3° (frequently referred to as Three Degrees) was a communication and P2P application produced by Microsoft. It allows you to sign in using a Microsoft .NET Passport and integrates into MSN Messenger. It sorts your buddies into groups, and allows you to share pictures, listen to a shared playlist or send animated winks to them.

Three Degrees is now discontinued and features provided by the software are now integrated in MSN Messenger 7. Three Degrees used to only run under Windows XP Service Packs 1 and 2.

Three degrees had a concept of being able to stream your music to other threedegrees users, like a miniature radio station. However, despite the other new features (Winks, nudges) being included in MSN Messenger 7, this feature was not, due to large copyright issues that would be faced by microsoft. Msn Messanger does, however, now enable other users to see what their buddy is listening to and is linked to a website providing this music if needed, a concept spurred by this idea.

External links

• 3° site (via the Internet Archive; accessed September 25, 2005)