Heya,

The beta version of Windows Live Messenger 8.1 has been made available to private beta testers for about a week now and more and more people are asking for a compatible version of Messenger Plus!. I can happily say that Messenger Plus! Live 4.10 (previously labelled 4.02) is currently in the work and will be entirely compatible with the new Messenger, however, I do not plan to release this version before at least another two weeks. The main reason for that delay is very simple: the current beta of Messenger 8.1 is extremely unstable and brings nothing really new to its users. I encourage all of you to stick with version 8.0 for now, you'll feel much better without a Messenger that can crash every 5 minutes during a chat .

Appart from that, internationalization of the web site continues with the following new languages: Chinese Traditional, Italiano and Japanese. Also, localized domain names have finally been set-up for many of the current translations, more will come with new translations in the near future:

www.msgpluslive.dk
www.msgpluslive.nl
www.msgpluslive.be
www.msgpluslive.co.uk
www.msgpluslive.ee
www.msgpluslive.com.tw
www.msgpluslive.cl
www.msgpluslive.es
www.msgpluslive.jp
www.msgpluslive.it
www.msgpluslive.de

September 15th: addition of the french language and three other domain names:
www.msgpluslive.com.br
www.msgpluslive.com.ar
www.msgpluslive.fr

Patchou

It only sucks because they wouldn't let me test it anymore.

Hmm, one thing that suprises me... no French? Wasn't french the most popular non-English language for Plus! users?

Yay! Internationalized Plus! Live domains!
* Matti adds www.msgpluslive.be to his favorites...

I don't really care about Messenger Plus! Live being incompatible with the 8.1 BETA. First of all, there has never been a public beta of Plus! Live for WLM 8.0 BETA either, and second: WLM 8.1 is way to unstable to make a decent add-on for. (like you alrady mentioned)

Good luck with the progress of v4.02!

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Originally posted by MenthiX
Hmm, one thing that suprises me... no French? Wasn't french the most popular non-English language for Plus! users?

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the domain name for french is already secured, I'm jsut waiting for the translation to be submitted.

Danish domain

I'll be looking forward for 4.10

I'll be waiting!

* Thor hopes that the Norwegian translators get done...

And btw, good luck with 4.02

Let me dedicate this to the combination of PHP, Unicode and Internet Explorer

i dont use wlm 8.1
because there is no plus or vista live messenger skin
but used it seems okay

Spanish Domain
yays
8.1 sux (for now)

Yay, can't wait for 4.10

Also, i'm not having a go at anyone but i figure someone is guna say something about people shouldn't be using add ons and other such things when testing a beta. lol

yeah, I also like the Belgian one, but can u add a possibility to just click on forum and see this one, instead of the Dutch version, cause I love this one way much

I agree with you, Patchou,... it's better to delay Plus than having hundreds of people complaining about Plus when it's their Messenger 8.1 the buggy program.

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www.msgpluslive.es

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Originally posted by Dragunov
can u add a possibility to just click on forum and see this one, instead of the Dutch version

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i cant wait for 4.10, i can wait for two weeks..i hope..lol

good work Patchou

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www.msgpluslive.es

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yay!!

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Well, I am testing WLM 8.1 now, and it's really buggy, makes it a little more bearable with MP!L

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Originally posted by DarkMe
www.msgpluslive.cl

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i know i can wait the two extra weeks since the WLM 8.1 version wont have anything that important for me to update to right away

its only very Buggy on vista IMO .. im running WinXP 64bit, had no problems with it so far

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Originally posted by HSV
its only very Buggy on vista IMO .. im running WinXP 64bit, had no problems with it so far

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Good one Patchou

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Originally posted by markee

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Originally posted by HSV
its only very Buggy on vista IMO .. im running WinXP 64bit, had no problems with it so far

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Are there any programs that aren't buggy in Vista (everyone keeps complaining about them).  I have found 8.1 more buggy than 8.0 imo.

Anyway, Patchou it is goo to hear that you have been working on it so much that it is almost ready for another release.  At least these two weeks of waiting will feel a lot shorter than the wait for 4.00

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Originally posted by HSV
don't wanna slag Vista but i dont think its ready to be released to Manufacturing  in November or whenever they said, , from what i see/read about it, its still having driver problems

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from what i seen.. it has also had problems detecting Raid ( maybe some Sata Drives )

Those new domains is pretty cool, i think it might give the number of downloads a boost, as people who search for something (on google for example) within their country they'll see plus! in the results more often.

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its only very Buggy on vista IMO .. im running WinXP 64bit, had no problems with it so far

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Are there any programs that aren't buggy in Vista (everyone keeps complaining about them).  I have found 8.1 more buggy than 8.0 imo.

Anyway, Patchou it is goo to hear that you have been working on it so much that it is almost ready for another release.  At least these two weeks of waiting will feel a lot shorter than the wait for 4.00

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i don't wanna slag Vista but i dont think its ready to be released to Manufacturing  in November or whenever they said, , from what i see/read about it, its still having driver problems

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I can't see how WLM 8.1 could be so buggy as there doesn't seem to be too many new features in it.  If they had a lot of new things then it would be understandable but at this stage I can't really understand it.

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Originally posted by markee
I still can't get quite a number of drivers and a lt of my stuff relating to toshiba in my programs aren't compatible either.  If I had those things I would probably have given it a go, but such a big download for a good chance of it not working isn't a thing I want to do. [/offtopic]

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At the risk of repeating everyone else in the thread, all I can say is keep up the good work Patchou.

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I can't see how WLM 8.1 could be so buggy as there doesn't seem to be too many new features in it.  If they had a lot of new things then it would be understandable but at this stage I can't really understand it.

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i cant either, al i can see is 2 new Features, thats all,

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I still can't get quite a number of drivers and a lt of my stuff relating to toshiba in my programs aren't compatible either.  If I had those things I would probably have given it a go, but such a big download for a good chance of it not working isn't a thing I want to do. [/offtopic]

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Same reason why im not gonna download it,

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Not all of Belgium speaks Dutch.IIRC, Dutch, French, German are the official languages of the Belgium so I think there should be, upon entry, a splash page (I don't mean just for the Belgian Domain, I'm sure there are several others that follow suit in relevance to my case), prompting for a language choice.

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Originally posted by ipab
Not all of belgium speaks Dutch.IIRC, Dutch, French, German are the official languages of the Blgium so I think there should be, upon entry, a splash page (I don't mean just for the Belgian Domain, I'm sure there are several others that follow suit in relevance to my case), prompting for a language choice.

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Keep on the hard work Patchou! MPL rules!
And we're counting down to the release and looking forward to this new version!

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And we're counting down to the release and looking forward to this new version

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Take your time Patchou, we know you always give us the best you have!

I don't need to mention that, but well...

heemmm danish domain

8.1 is worser than 8.0, When you add a contact to a convo, It dont tell you it's status like 8.0.
The contact cards are worser

Good luck Patchou for making 4.10, its gonna be great it bet

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Originally posted by beware_of_this_guy
8.1 is worser than 8.0, When you add a contact to a convo, It dont tell you it's status like 8.0.
The contact cards are worser

Good luck Patchou for making 4.10, its gonna be great it bet

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{off-topic] but when is patchou due back
wlm 8.1..is gonna be good if its skinable i like the new contact cards
cant wait for final which will be ages

Probably it will be out along with Vista RTM.
I wonder when will the new version of Plus be released anyway...

i wish The new version goes out tomorrow

Seriously
It's taking some time... but oh well... let's just push forward

EDIT: Something must be going on here... there should be a pretty much relevant reason for the new version not to be released yet...

It has been over a month since he announced the new version.  Guess losing his MVP award made him mad and he is going to withhold it.

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Originally posted by jegar
It has been over a month since he announced the new version.  Guess losing his MVP award made him mad and he is going to withhold it.

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And I pressume this was not meant to be published, right? We had to ask.

What was not meant to be published? Patchou's starting post of this topic? There's no reason why that shouldn't have been published. Nothing he said in that post has changed...

- v4.10 is still being betatested by a private group of testers
- v4.10 will work with WLM 8.1 (already does for those who are testing it)
- The current WLM 8.1 build is still very buggy
- Patchou still doesn't want to release 4.10 to public yet as long as WLM 8.1 is so buggy
- WLM 8.1 still doesn't add much new features, if you want Plus!, just install WLM 8.0 and wait until 8.1 comes out of beta

Patchou did recently say he took a break and has done less on Plus! since he came back from vacation than he usually does, but Microsoft didn't release new 8.1 beta builds either, so there really isn't a reason to hurry and release MP!L 4.10 already.

I'm sure MP!L 4.10 will be public by the time Microsoft releases WLM 8.1 to public.

I just said that in the very beginning he said the new version was going to be released around a month ago. That's all.
I don't rush at all, I hope he takes his time. I just wanted to be informed about this, cause I never read anything about Patchou saying that he took some time and relaxed
Too much coincidence this happened right after the MVP sh*t.

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...if you want Plus!, just install WLM 8.0 and wait until 8.1 comes out of beta...

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I adhere to that!

so we just stay with the latest 8.0 to be on the safe side.

carry on patchou!

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so we just stay with the latest 8.0 to be on the safe side.

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The reason I want 4.10 isn't because it will work with 8.1 (I'm not even bate testing it). I want it because of the new features.

Either way take your time Patchou. I can wait.

Not to rush you or anything Patchou, but its been almost a month and and a half since you said that.

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Not to rush you or anything Patchou, but its been almost a month and and a half since you said that.

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