Shoutbox

People should use Messenger Plus! Live to see gradient colors in all of nicks, psms, current media you are listening because the bbcode which can give a gradient effect to your message is supported by only Messenger Plus! Live. Though people should use Messenger Plus! Live to see every kind of formatting on nicks, psms etc because original Messenger doesn't support these formatting tags.

Idle status is set only when you don't touch mouse or keyboard for a while (you set the delay in Messenger Options>"Show me as Away if I'm inactive for X minutes"). Note that the option says Away, but this Away is different from the original Away and Messenger Plus! can distinguish these two Aways and when appropriate, it shows one Away as Idle. People who don't use Messenger Plus! can never see this status on their contacts. Search forums for more information, there are lots of threds about this Idle.