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can you get messenger plus on mac and if not does anyone know when you will?

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Originally posted by traxor
No sorry, Messenger Plus! may never be available on Apple Mackintosh Computers because it would be expensive to make, plus, only 3% of the population have macs, so there would be no point, just a waste of time making it compatible etc...

There would also be a shortage on testers, so it would be very buggy...

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those aren't reasons

the reasons it will not be ported is the lack of application programming interfaces on the mac version of MSN messenger

Sorry. I wish there was too, but it just wont be happening.

Mostly because of the lack of API for the mac version of messenger.

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition

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Originally posted by traxor
No sorry, Messenger Plus! may never be available on Apple Mackintosh Computers because it would be expensive to make, plus, only 3% of the population have macs, so there would be no point, just a waste of time making it compatible etc...

There would also be a shortage on testers, so it would be very buggy...

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those aren't reasons

the reasons it will not be ported is the lack of application programming interfaces on the mac version of MSN messenger

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Got to agree, I know that the mac users are a minority, but they are often underestimated. There are still a lot of Mac users, millions, which if Messenger Plus was offered to obviously a lot would use it. If it was easily possible I'm sure Patchou would do it, however Mac's MSN Messenger does use totally different APIs to windows, and is like a bitch to work with. I'm sure in the distant future there will be better programming capabilities for the Mac that are akin to Windows, and maybe then Patchou will be able to make this project, but I am talking about the way distant future. Sorry about this 123456789.

this is the official word from Patchou

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No, there will never be a Macintosh version of Messenger Plus! due to several reasons including these ones:
I, the author, do not have a Macintosh
The Macintosh platform does not have the technology (API) for an add-on like Messenger Plus!

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you can use it with Virtual PC for Mac! That's what my friend is using (about $200 tho)