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Originally posted by Patchou
Well, the thing is, I don't recall releasing a beta of Messenger Plus! that corrupted your user profile in Windows, made all your OS settings suddenly disappear, and forced you to use System Restore to use your computer again. Messenger is not a system tool, it's a chat program.
The "installer" (just for Messenger on its own) uses
18 different installers in the background, including a system patch, DX 3D 10, Silverlight, et al
It is a ridiculously complex installer which tries to install these installers in parallel and if one fails, it'll just conveniently tell you randomly that one of them failed (not necessarily the one that did). Even with the setup log, you still have to track down what's failing. Even worse, it seems some fail silently.
There are issues where it ignores proxy on/off settings, issues with OEM installs of Live Essentials and goodness knows what else. I've had way too many people so far with these problems, lost at last one night's sleep over them and even just gave up in one circumstance because it was just not worth my time.
I know it's a beta, but really it's more of a preview release as we all know there won't be any design changes. The Wave 3 installer was bad enough; you're supposed to improve your software, not make it worse.
As for Messenger 2011 itself, I'm not even going there in this post but I will say I'm not using it on my primary machine
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