Shoutbox

No, I'm not making any dollar directly from the contest pages, actually I'm losing money everytime somebody clicks on the grid (bandwidth... ).

A "small update"? I'm sorry to say things don't work that way, it's far from being that easy and even if it was, I have no interest in updating a software that was put aside more than a year ago, sorry .

Also, as it's not the first time I read that a "lot" of people are still using 9x/2000 out there, here are the numbers (fresh from this week) :

Messenger Plus users from version 1.xx to 4.xx (basically, what really counts) :
Windows Vista:      2.82%
Windows XP:        95.20%
Windows 2000:      0.89%
Windows Me:          0.26%
Windows 98:          0.78%

And here are the stats from version 1.xx to version 3.xx only (coming from versions compatible with all the old MSN Messenger clients) :
Windows XP:        89.50%
Windows 2000:      4.68%
Windows Me:         1.39%
Windows 98:          4.10%

I invite everybody to link to this thread in the future for similar debates. Basically, the hard fact is: there's not much point in developing public software for anything below XP nowadays.

what about making something similar to addon to aMSN, or pidgin for example. i reckon there'd be plenty of poeple willing to help. even if it IS in C or whatever =p

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Originally posted by ICD
what about making something similar to addon to aMSN, or pidgin for example. i reckon there'd be plenty of poeple willing to help. even if it IS in C or whatever =p

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Because aMSN and Pidgin are open source and you don't need a plugin for it - anyone can make their own modifications or somene else can do it.

Because MsgPlus is a one-man project and he can't be expected to be coding multiple plugins for multiple platforms for multiple messengers.

Because we all know no one would download MsgPlus for aMSN or Pidgin.

Because there's no reason to.