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Originally posted by buqingzi
I mean granted it's a software developed by another third party, but it seems to me that the reason for that is because MS wanted it to be done. It's only available in Korean but that might be because MS wanted a pilot to see if it's marketable. Who knows if they have a plan to introduce it in Europe?
If MS wanted a pilot, they would make it themself under the name of MS, IMO...
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Originally posted by buqingzi
and if they did, it can only be detrimental to plus! since they share a number of the same features.
No, they don't... Plus is an entirly different program. Messenger PowerPlus' features are the moving avatar system, nothing more. Besides it isn't even free...
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Originally posted by buqingzi
Also, the hooking mechanism interfeares with the Plus!'s one, and what do you think are the chances of the developer to change Powerplus's hooking code in order to accommodate plus?
doubtfull, but Plus could change his method.. nothing wrong in doing that...
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Originally posted by buqingzi
But would it make sense to do that anyway (change the name of Plus!) since new users are bound to get confused between the two?
No, Plus! shouldn't change his name. There is no confusion if everybody uses "plus" and "powerplus"...
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Originally posted by buqingzi
I wonder if it's possible for plus! to offer animated pictures?
It is possible... but personaly, I hope Patchou will never implement this. First, it can be debated if it is an usefull feature, but more important this involves a lot of changes, which will be very very bloated. Besides, if I read here and there (msnfanatic, comments on newssites, ...), the animated display pictures aren't as welcome as we all think. And then I'm talking about true animated display pictures. The deluxe avatar system from PowerPlus is even more annoying. Sure it's nice to have it, but soon enough they'll be very annoying to look at, etc. More and more users are complaining that MSN Messenger is getting too bloated, so...
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