Re: Windows Messenger VS MSN Messenger

"dr del" <da011c0688DIE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
And at the moment it doesn't need fixing or tarting up, I'll take function over form
anytime - just look at the wife **ducks a passing saucepan**
I'm sure, like Windows Messenger, she gets the job done and you love her to death.

I have often wondered why the dev's don't look at all the "fixes" third party tweaks get
praise for and built it into the next incarnation of their baby - increasing the max length
of postable messages for example has been added by every messenger tweak app I have
encounterd and as for the amount off changes in messenger plus the mind boggles.
Oh they do and are quickly dismissed. Like any large project, any real big changes have to
go through a whole hierarchy of people, from client to server teams and hope no one vetos the
ideas. Interestingly, from a statistical point of view the actual userbase of people using
these tweaks are rather low and adding them to the main client could rapidly affect the
entire Messenger network. However, for the record I'm a huge proponent for getting the max
length change.

The only real "technical" issue I have with windows messenger is not caused by the client
but by the servers as far as I can tell so would be pervasive in all variants. This is the
censoring of certain phrases and combinations of filenames without any notification
Yeah it's a server restriction to stop viruses. I don't like it either.

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