Messenger Plus! Live News

Fans from All Over the World Connect with Powerful World Cup App by Messenger Plus! Delivered to over 12 Million Users

Nathalie — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:27:22 +0000

After launching its news sports site, Plus! Sports, last month, Messenger Plus! Live recently featured a World Cup App which was also available at the Application Marketplace. Promoted through the Conduit Network on the toolbars available for free while downloading Messenger Plus! Live software, the World Cup App reached nearly 10 million users in 36 hours. The number of downloads from the toolbar and Plus! Sports site increased fast towards the opening day on June 11 in South Africa and surpassed the 12 million mark by the end of the Group Stage on June 26.

The World Cup App allowed soccer enthusiasts to stay close to all the 2010 World Cup action in real time. Fans saw who was playing, where and when; got information about statistics, matches and squads for specific stadiums; and even tried their luck playing “Who will make the finals?” – an interactive game which was embedded in the application.

Now that the Group Stage of the World Cup is over, fans can continue their World Cup activity throughout the finals with the World Cup script, developed by a community member of Messenger Plus! Live that notifies fans of the goals of their favourite teams. This successful script has yielded more than 8,000 downloads in a week and is available in the Messenger Plus! Live script database, promoted through Plus! Sports as well.

PlusNetwork, (including Plus! Sports and Plus! Games) and the Messenger Plus! Live toolbars support Messenger Plus! Live by letting us devote more resources towards the development of new features, as well as helping keep Messenger Plus! Live stay free.

Messenger Plus! launches Plus! Sports

Nathalie — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:03:30 +0000

We’re pleased to introduce you to Plus! Sports www.plussports.com, a new soccer website brought to you for Messenger Plus! Live fans. This sports portal keeps you posted on global soccer news, including:

• World Cup 2010 – get the latest updates and about this exciting event. After you click on a South African venue in this application, you can access information on statistics, matches and squads. You can also try your luck playing the “Who will meet the finals?” game.

• Injury Centre – keep tabs on the details of wounded players from teams around the world.

• Observatory – watch video clips of rising stars, players in top form and the Goal of the Week.

• And much more – enter the site to find your favourite soccer section. Plus! Sports is the latest addition to the team of websites for the Messenger Plus! Live Community, including Plus! Games and Plus! Network.

We hope that the soccer enthusiasts among you will enjoy Plus! Sports. As always, your feedback is encouraged and appreciated!

Nathalie

Community Liaison

Yuna Software

Happy Birthday to Messenger Plus! Live

Nathalie — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:27:16 +0000

Hello everyone and happy birthday!

Yes, Messenger Plus! Live is officially nine years old today. Day after day, millions of people around the world are using Messenger Plus! Live and consider it to be an essential part of their online life. For many users, installing this add-on on their computer has become as important as installing Microsoft Office or Windows Live Messenger itself, and the software is still showing regularly in top ten download lists.

I wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank Patchou and the rest of the Messenger Plus! Live community who have worked very hard to make this product so successful. I also wanted to take this opportunity to remind you to download the most updated version, 4.84.

I wanted to thank all of you for your continuous support of Messenger Plus! Live, and helping it become the most popular and respected Windows Live Messenger extension.

Happy birthday Messenger Plus! Live

Nathalie

Community Liaison

Yuna Software

Messenger Plus! Live 4.84

Patchou — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:30:38 +0000

An update for Messenger Plus! Live has just been released. Version 4.84 is the first “intermediary” build between the current Plus!4 code base and the Plus!5 version to come. Several internal updates were done and some of the translations have been updated as well. Nothing really exicting here but it’s still a new version nonetheless, made for everyone (and the size of it has been decreased too. More free kilobytes for you to use!).

Download Messenger Plus! Live 4.84 (changelog)

Development Office in Montreal

Patchou — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:44:29 +0000

A while ago, I promised some pictures to illustrate our new work environment, here are some (it’s not much but I’ll take more when we’ve cleaned-up). Development of Messenger Plus! is being moved from my home office to an office tower in Montreal. A dozen people, including myself, will soon be working from that new location, on various Messenger Plus! projects. It took no less than three months to transform this vacant space into a fully furnished, fully cabled office. We have a sweet Windows 2008 R2 server to work with locally as well, everything is going smoothly although it’s always taking more time that you wish it did.

The office already has a new project manager, Jean-François, who’s currently assembling the new team. The guy is bright, motivated, and has a solid experience in the field of software development. Meanwhile, I am working on what I was previously referring to “Project K”, which is a special add-on we’re creating for a special client. Nathalie will soon post more information about it, I’m currently holding her off until I have something nice to show :).

By the way, I’ve not given the name of the Montreal division yet: Kimahri Software. Those of you who’re gamers may see the link, those of you who’re not can rest assured: we’re not opening an Indian restaurant. So, from now on, when you hear about Kimahri, think of Yuna, they both mean the same thing, the difference is only structural.

That’s it for the quick news. Have a Happy Easter everyone :).

Project K finally revealed… or not

Patchou — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:27:20 +0000

When the last build of Messenger Plus! was released, I mentioned something about “project K” in the change log. As things are evolving for the better now, I’m told this can be safely discussed publicly.

Starting next month, Messenger Plus! will stop being distributed as a standalone product and will be part of a bigger software suite distributed by Kaspersky. We were in talk with this company for quite a while now and I’m glad to announce Messenger Plus! will now be distributed with the Kaspersky Internet Security program and sold for a minor price. Of course, current users will receive a proper discount. You have until April 18th to install Messenger Plus! to get the best update price possible when version 5.0 will be released. Specific details about this important change will be published very soon, check-out this site and the vendor’s site for more details.

Edit: Fishy fishy fishy…. :)