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Patchou's Messenger Plus! the best addin for MSN Messenger ever, and I have been waiting for Version 2.0 for a long long time...
Patchou's Messenger Plus! 2.0 didn't lasted to my expectations, the new thing added is invisility of the MSN windows on boss shortcut... for which i use to use another software, Cronosoft's Quick Hide Windows.
The Logging of Events which is also a great feature, a bit of helpful in cases.
With Logging, I had been getting hear from Patchou's for about an year that by next version (hopefully 2.0) the chat logs will be in HTML or rich text format rather than just plain text format.
Plus! 1.46 had a great feature which is disable in Plus! 2.0 the logging of chat Archives for separate contacts in a separate folders.
I guess patchou's Plus! 2.0 setup installs version 2.0 over 1.46. Patchou should have remembered that, many users would be upgrading their Plus! The installer removed all the earlier settings, and installed new version with no previous settings at all.
With many new helpful features like truncate of Long names, dual & invisibile boss shortcut, event logging, Maximum message size 1100 characters, over 20 quick texts, and multi-format text support (with IRC shortcuts) which really is a great feature, Instant Locking of Messenger for advanced protection, Multiple predefined personalised status, and the main feature have shortcuts assigned to every feature in Plus! 2, which ofcourse makes me feel that keyboard have few keys, personlised Contact sounds, Upto 4 POP email checking support (which ofcourse doesn't notify when a mail is JUST recieved), great support, nice looks and ease of use.
With prick-features, Plus! 2.0 shouldn't have disabled the logging of messages in separete folders, and should have done something with the rich-text format of chat logs archives, atleast patchou could have done with it is creating its own mini database for logging of chats and viewer for viewing the logs in richtext format.
I give Patchou's Messenger Plus! 2.0 an overall of 70/100 points.