[ahmed]

Spring is coming and if Messenger Plus! was alive, he would tell you that it can only mean one thing: birthday celebrations! of course, Messenger Plus! is not living breathing thing (or is it?) so it falls to me, its closest parent, to announce the big news to you.
Next month, a new version labelled 4.21 will be released. In addition to the usual batch of improvements and bug fixes, this version will also be the portal to a brand new contest opened to everybody. This time, you won’t need to develop a script or advertise Messenger Plus! on your web site. The contest will be a game luck and everybody will have an equal chance to participate and win one of the many prizes prepared for the occasion, which brings me to the most interesting part: there will be more stuff to win than the combined total of every past contest put together! this means that you can expect a bunch of Xbox 360 Elite, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Wide LCD Computer Screens and hundreds of Messenger Plus! marchandize!
More details about this new contest will be posted next month, when Messenger Plus! Live 4.21 is ready for worldwide distribution. In the meantime, enjoy some good easter chocolate and prepare yourself for the biggest contest ever organised around MSN Messenger.

[ahmed]

These days, it seems like not much is going on around Messenger. Many MSN/Windows Live Messenger dedicated web sites spend half of their times talking about other Windows Live related projects and with summer only a month away, it seems safe to say that the first half of the year will make history (or not) by being one of the quietest period in the life of our Messenger client… what better time to announce the following?
Messenger Plus! Live 4.21 has been released! yeah! a new version! baked so recently that you may burn yourself if you click on the download button too quickly (consider yourself warned). Once served, the first thing you’ll notice is that it contains less fat than before with a total weight of only 3.7MB per portion: it’s healthier for your internet connection and your computer won’t taste the difference. This new version is largely composed of minor fixes with a touch of improvements such as support for the recently added I’m emoticon (use it!), a better environment for script developers, new notification options for opened conversations, better chat logs for some users, a new Turkish translation, etc… people who want cool new features can always get what they’re searching for in the scripts database like Reminder+ which will remind some people of the old Scheduler from Messenger Plus! 3, Plus!Mail to write quick emails to whoever you want without having to leave Messenger, Stat Center to gather an impressive amount of statistics of anything happening in your Messenger and of course, the WDZ fan club script which is a must for anybody who visits the Messenger Plus! forums regularly.
In this new version, you’ll probably notice something else that’s new and if you read the previous news post, chances are that you already guessed what it is: a special “gold” Messenger Plus! icon has been added in the contact list and it’s the icon you’ll soon have to click on to access the very special 6th anniversary contest! I know some of you were expecting the contest to open on the same day of the release but you’ll have to wait a little more. The contest is in its final test phase, it’s big, very big, and because people will be required to have the new 4.21 version to participate, it has been decided that everything will start about a week from now.
More information about this exciting event in two days, on the 19th .

available languages

The current version is distributed with the following languages:
English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish.



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Messenger Plus! Live 4.21.270

[ahmetgns]

Messenger Plus!’s birthday - Prizes! Lots of them!
Messenger Plus! is 6 years old!

Last year’s birthday event was somehow ignored because Messenger Plus! Live 4.00 was being prepared for its first public release. At the time I simply gave a couple of statistics but this year, I’m announcing something real, something big, big enough to celebrate 6 years of development and community support. As mentioned during the release of version 4.21, the current version of Messenger Plus! includes a special gold icon that you’ll find in your contact list. This icon gives you access to the special contest that was prepared exclusively for the event. We worked a month on this to make sure everybody would enjoy the game, here is the result.
The “Play and Win 6th Anniversary Contest” is a game of luck open to every user of Messenger Plus!. The rules are simple: click on the game grid (a big picture) randomly to find the hidden prizes. If you find a prize, you instantly win it, it’s that simple, and there is no catch whatsoever. The good part is that you can play for as many times as you like, for the whole duration of the contest! The total amount of prizes will be divided and distributed over a period of 3 weeks. The contest will start officially in a week from now, sometime during the weekend of the 26th, and the total set of rules will be made available at the same time. Don’t worry, a news post will be made as soon as the contest is activated. All you’ll need to do then is click on the gold Messenger Plus! icon so make sure you and your friends update to Messenger Plus! 4.21 as soon as possible!
And now, the one piece of information you really want to know: the prize list!

• 3 Xbox 360 Elite + 1 Xbox game of your choosing
• 3 Nintendo Wii + 2 Wii games of your choosing + 1 additional Wii Remote and Nunchuck
• 3 Playstation 3 60GB + 1 Playstation game of your choosing
• 3 Wide Computer LCD Screen from Samsung, 20 inches wide, model 206BW
• 30 Messenger Plus! shirt + Mug pack, special 6th anniversary edition
• 90 Messenger Plus! shirt + Mousepad pack, special 6th anniversary edition

That’s more than 250 prizes organized in 132 individual prize packs which makes this contest the biggest game ever organised around Messenger, worldwide! now that’s something to be proud of :-). So sit back, prepare yourself for some long evenings of nonstop clicking and see you in a week!

[ahmed]

Messenger Plus! is freeware. Freeware is neither spyware nor shareware, just freeware. It's 100% free to use and you can choose whether you want to install the sponsor program that comes with it or not. Why hesitate? Join millions of happy users right now!

available languages

The current version is distributed with the following languages:
English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish.

compatibility

The only thing needed to use Messenger Plus! Live is Windows Live Messenger (the latest version of MSN Messenger) which requires Windows XP or above. Messenger Plus! Live is compatible with Windows Live Messenger 8.0 to 8.5 and it can be installed on 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Messenger Plus! Live 4.23.276

[ahmetgns]

Working on the next version

Summer is passing by and I just realized that it’s been a while since the last news post. For those of you wondering, I’m not spending my days enjoying the sun outside. I enjoy it inside, with my keyboard, working on a new version of Messenger Plus! Live. This version will be a new major update (probably labelled 4.50) and I’m doing my best to make it will be worth its weight of megabytes.

The list of improvements cannot be talked about immediately as many things are still being worked on, however, I can safely say that the update will be released sometime this fall. I’ll keep you posted with a screenshot or two when possible. Until then, if you have any good suggestion or ideas to improve Messenger, it’s time to talk about them on the forum at Messenger Plus! Live Forums :-).

Patchou