Shoutbox

Hello everyone,

as you may already know, a new version of Messenger Plus! will be released in about ten days from now. As always, bug fixes, improvements and new features will be present. However, there is one new thing tat you need to be aware of.

Messenger Plus! already brings many, many features to MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger. It has become very hard for me to decide what feature I should improve in each release. I currently have almost no idea about what features are really used and what features are dead-weight. In order to know where to concentrate my efforts, I've decided to add anonymous usage statistics into Messenger Plus!.

Once a week, when Messenger Plus! will check for updates, anonymous statistics will be sent to the server. These statistics are very simple one and consist of true/false information only such as "quicktext was used", "Plus! contact list icon was pressed", ... of course, nothing personal such as chat logs or your contact's emails will be sent. Again, only anonymous numerical data will be sent in a simple http request of less than 1Kb. This featurewill be on bydefaultand you'll easily beable to deactivate it permanently in the first window of the preferences panel (General Options\Local Settings).

Feel free to post comments about this new addition. I hope all of you will understand the necessity of such statistics. This way is the less intrusive way I found to send me the few data I need to continue to improve Messenger Plus! the right way.

Patchou