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O.P. Microsoft vs. Plus!
I recently remember someone on the forum mentioning that Plus! was once attempted to be shut down by Microsoft...well I knew they turned a blank eye to Plus! but I never knew about this can I have some more info please?
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O.P. RE: Microsoft vs. Plus!
quote:Originally posted by reisyboy
Well at one time they tried to shut Messenger Plus! out of MSN Messenger by disallowing it to hook in
Yeah I don't get the point of that...I mean Plus! encourages people to use MSN Messenger more often. They always only like stuff that's been made by Microsoft or a business partner...
It was the release of 6.0 which was such a huge change. They changed something in their code that disallowed messenger plus! to work correctly. Patchou said it was done purposly. But Patchou eventually worked around it
I think Micro$oft just wants to keep 3rd party plugins (especially Plus!) busy, they want us to work hard
They change offsets and stuff for no good reason and release another version just so patches/plugins are unusable but do not tell us with a "formal letter" we can't make our plugin,
Messenger 6 on the other hand was different the api's were changed so plus had to interact differently (thus MP!2 was born)
tbh, I don't think that MS changed it because they wanted to stop Plus!. They just rewrote the code and the UI. That Plus! couldn't hook anymore wasn't done intentionaly. (note: not a fact, but my opinion)