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I have signed the petition, and I have also defended plus! on neowin. This is just plain stupid. Read my full rant on neowin, i'm the_guy over there.

Go Patchou!

Then from what he has said about Messenger Plus having to shut down if Microsoft do not change the anti spyware on the petition page, it looks like that is going to happen because I am almost certain that Microsoft will NOT back down. As the senior management have said there on several occassions, backing down to external sources show weakness and Microsoft do not want to be seen as weak.

Maybe this is Microsoft's intention, who knows.

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Number of signatures received since the 17th of August 2005: 5,017

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very good for 2 days!!!

signed... of course this is the greatest extension for MSN and patchou has put a lot of effort into it...

but why would msnplus have to shutdown as a result? Couldn't msn plus just keep working even if Microsoft doesnt do anything about it?

It could but Patchou has stated that Messenger Plus will close on the petition page if Microsoft don't change their anti spyware program.

also knowing microsoft they have a lot of users and maybe start to bundle the software in windows meaning a hell of alot of people will have it and not use messenger plus

As far as I know it is going to be included with Vista.

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Originally posted by craigbrass
As far as I know it is going to be included with Vista.

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vista isnt all that crash hot, at least the beta versions of it arent... ie7 for example still isnt as good as firefox...

but still.. why shut msn plus down

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Originally posted by Doorknob
but still.. why shut msn plus down

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for legal reasons it's called msg plus or messenger plus

and patchou thinks this is the peak of the software and he would be glad to work on other projects.

so patchou needs help from microsoft, which he did a month back but that was with the msn messenger department

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Originally posted by Absorbation

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Originally posted by Doorknob
but still.. why shut msn plus down

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for legal reasons it's called msg plus or messenger plus

and patchou thinks this is the peak of the software and he would be glad to work on other projects.

so patchou needs help from microsoft, which he did a month back but that was with the msn messenger department

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heh typo, i know what it was called, just forgot

oh, i thought maybe it was like msg plus will close in protest if the changes wont be made...

It's probably only the Anti-spyware department that is of any concern, maybe if we get the support of other microsoft divisions it will be more likely for changes to the software being implemented...