Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Islander
hopefully there will be some Plus!-Update soon.

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Probably not while WLM is still beta. I expect the first public Messenger Plus! Live release a few days before or after the public release of Windows Live Messenger.

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Originally posted by MenthiX

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Originally posted by Islander
hopefully there will be some Plus!-Update soon.

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Probably not while WLM is still beta. I expect the first public Messenger Plus! Live release a few days before or after the public release of Windows Live Messenger.

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Yep, i agree with MenthiX. As WLM changes throughout the beta stage then Plus! Live might have to change for compatibility and for both bugs, as WLM is a fairly major update the update for Plus! will be just as big (if not bigger).

I just checked my email after being away for about a month, to my delight sitting there was an invite to the messenger live beta. After installing it I realised just how much I used the functionality of msgplus. I can't wait for the release!

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Originally posted by MenthiX

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Originally posted by Islander
hopefully there will be some Plus!-Update soon.

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Probably not while WLM is still beta. I expect the first public Messenger Plus! Live release a few days before or after the public release of Windows Live Messenger.

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Which will be no sooner as februari/march (possible even much later) as februari/march is what is initially the date that WLM will become public beta, if all things go as planned that is!!

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Originally posted by SonicSam

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Originally posted by Patchou
If you're ab official tester for WLM I'll probably ask you to join the Plus! beta testers list though, but that won't be before late January.

You'll soon understand why .

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Thats cool Patchou. I recently got my invite for this WLM Beta ...I wonder who (if you do) you will chose. But I'll leave that to you

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Stop saying stuff like that to get in to the beta. Patchou knows you are in the beta, and you won't shut up about it. patchou knows. i am in the beta so make me a tester too.

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Originally posted by Cee_estee
do invited testers count?

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I imagine what mostly counts is what counts as usuall: Patchou needs to know and trust you first. Only, in second instance does the fact count if you are beta tester or invitee or not. To test Plus!Live you, of course, need to have access to WLM though.

But all that is up to Patchou, and he can change his mind anytime for whatever reason or decide to only let official beta testers (thus not invitees) to participate in the future (which I doubt, as invitees can test stuff too) or whatever.

Also remember that there once will be a time that WLM will become public beta (thus you wont need the invites anymore or be an official tester to access the new features) and during the time a messanger is in beta (public or not) a new version of Plus! will never be released, instead it will still be in develoment, meaning, testers are needed.

But, unless Patchou himself replies to all this and says in public what his policy is for testing Plus!Live, all you can do is wait and see...

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Originally posted by Cee_estee
but how does patcheau know who's messenger beta tester and who's not?

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He doesn't. That is: he doesn't have a MSN "big brother" list, or access to something like that, of whom is officially tester or not. But he can ask/mail around, read posts, has access (just as plus! beta testers have) to private parts of the forum where such stuff is handled, etc...





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Originally posted by ShawnZ
you see every year patchou makes a BIG list (...)

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Rubbish. First of all beta testers (Plus! beta tester or Messenger beta tester, it goes for both) are choosen everytime (at least 99% of time) from scratch.


PS: Though, I know you most likely meant that as "joking around" (though, why double posting?) and that it was said in #banana and all. But these are the forums (and we're also still not in a T&T thread, if that counts for anything) where people ask questions of which they expect a valid answer (especially in such cases), hence my serious reply.

too great job.

Thank you.

anyways.. im an officially invited tester and wouldn't mind beta testing msgplus live in late jan if thats alright.

just saying it to put it out there.

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My policy for chosing beta testers is still the same: when a beta version will be ready, I'll ask on the forum for people to email me aif they want to be a tester. I'll check the "profile" of everybody (depending on if I know them, if they are active on the forum, etc...) and I'll make a list (I rarely keep the same list between two versions).