Messenger Plus = Spyware, do not install it!

Please read carefully this post:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks.../07/89691.aspx

So Microsoft, if you want your users safer,
plese include the useful features of messenger plus
directly in Live Messenger, so we don't have to install
that program.

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Messenger Plus is *not* spyware, it includes some *optional* sponsor
software that you do *not* have to install to have Plus on your system.

Scøtt
Live Messenger FAQs - http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/

Licantrop0 wrote:
> Please read carefully this post:
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks.../07/89691.aspx
>
> So Microsoft, if you want your users safer,
> plese include the useful features of messenger plus
> directly in Live Messenger, so we don't have to install
> that program.
>

That'll never happen, they won't even boost message size much less add any
other usefull features ;p. Oh yeah, by the way the sponsor package is
optional, and it's not spyware but adware. There is a difference there.





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They can't.

Half the features go against internal design practices at Microsoft and won't happen.

Examples include, the boss lock feature (just not found in Microsoft software), colour codes
(no backward compatibility), etc.

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"Licantrop0" <> wrote in message news:%...
> So Microsoft, if you want your users safer,
> plese include the useful features of messenger plus
> directly in Live Messenger

Jonathan Kay [MVP] wrote:
> They can't.
>
> Half the features go against internal design practices at Microsoft
> and won't happen.
>
> Examples include, the boss lock feature (just not found in Microsoft
> software), colour codes (no backward compatibility), etc.

and for the other half?

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"Scøtt Lovegrove [ScottIsAFool]" wrote:
> Messenger Plus is *not* spyware, it includes some *optional* sponsor
> software that you do *not* have to install to have Plus on your
> system.

I know, but most of people don't.
they click "next" whatever is written in the install wizard.

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The other half they already have tried to implement.

XML Archiving = Logs
VoiceClip = Plus Sounds
etc.

Now there are some things that could be added, perhaps next decade

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"Licantrop0" <> wrote in message news:...
> and for the other half?

Hi,

In article <>, says...
> > Messenger Plus is *not* spyware, it includes some *optional* sponsor
> > software that you do *not* have to install to have Plus on your
> > system.
>
> I know, but most of people don't.
> they click "next" whatever is written in the install wizard.

So, the problem is *not* Messenger Plus.
The problem is "most people"!




Mark.

The incompetence of joe public is not a fault of Plus!

Scøtt
Live Messenger FAQs - http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/

Licantrop0 wrote:
> "Scøtt Lovegrove [ScottIsAFool]" wrote:
>> Messenger Plus is *not* spyware, it includes some *optional* sponsor
>> software that you do *not* have to install to have Plus on your
>> system.
>
> I know, but most of people don't.
> they click "next" whatever is written in the install wizard.
>

Licantrop0 wrote:
> "Scøtt Lovegrove [ScottIsAFool]" wrote:
>
>> Messenger Plus is *not* spyware, it includes some *optional* sponsor
>> software that you do *not* have to install to have Plus on your
>> system.
>
>
> I know, but most of people don't.
> they click "next" whatever is written in the install wizard.
>

Which isn't possible in MP!L, since it *forces* you to choose whether to
install the sponsor or not. As, I believe, the later versions of Plus! 3
do as well, and have done for ages.