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MSN Messenger Access To Be Restricted
linuxwrangler writes "According to Infoworld, Microsoft has announced that as of October 15 some third-party software and older versions of MSN Messenger will no longer be able to log in to their Instant Messaging service. Microsoft cited 'security issues', but declined to offer specifics. The company sent an email alert to Messenger users, but users reported thinking the message was a hoax or virus after receiving over a dozen copies of the email."
Now I feel sad. Not even Microsoft wants to email me.
Let's see.
Is Gaim a MS sponsered MSN Messenger?
Nope.
We are out in the cold.
Space for rent, inquire within
Oh come on, you can't keep all the security problems to yourself you greedy bastards!!!
...or do we just have to scroll to the bottom of the page to find the Trillian-compatible Messenger version?
SCO has Intellectual Property in both Trillian and MSN Messenger, and will soon sue users of both out of existence.
I know that most slashdotters don't RTFA, but this is bordering on the ridiculous! It's one thing not to read the artcile before replying, quite another not to read the blurb. :P
Who needs (Microsoft-using) friends anyway?
From the article:
"We would encourage those third parties to contact us to work out agreements by which they can continue to have their customers access our network."
Sundwall would not comment on what type of agreement Microsoft would want with third-party IM software providers. "We are very interested in interoperating with all third parties, there just needs to be a formal agreement," he said.
Yep. Sounds like M$ is really out to crush the competition and strike a blow to open source. Yep, they're being completely unreasonable here. Light the torches boys, we've got a rabbelous mob to form!
no thanks
Since when did security issues keep software off the street?
Thanks Microsoft, for breaking the IM unity that Trillian was successful at providing. Is it just me, or does this paint M$ as a sore loser?
-jc
Well, rampant worms and other exploits of ridiculous security holes may be having their merry way with computer systems worldwide, and the traffic those generate may be slowing down the internet, but THANK GOD the Microsoft brain trust is making sure that their IM software is water-fucking-tight! Bravo, minions of Bill, bravo!
/me stands up to applaud.
~Philly
So, there's still some hope.
;)
Oh, you're going to cover the licensing fees for GAIM? Cool! Thanks! Hey guys, didja hear that? Gherald is covering the MS license fees for GAIM to keep working with Messenger . . .
everything in moderation
Oh, it will remain open I think. For anyone willing to cough up an appropriate license fee and willing to sign a pretty little NDA, which basically states your first born will belong to Microsoft.
Hate me!
Do you think they would settle for my second born child? My first born is very well behaved. I would miss her terribly. My second born is a monster. I am pretty sure that Microsoft would be begging to give him back after a month or two.
He is my first born *son*, if that makes a different.
The average IQ on slashdot isn't plummetting, it's always this low.
Learn to Play Go
Repair Windows machines all day long for a living and you too will begin to hate windows (and its users) very quickly....
OTOH, I suppose I should like Windows... I mean as long as MS makes an OS I'll always have a job ;) LOL
I have for the past few months being trying to consolidate my personality into a few well defined slivers ...
- handling different email identities with a single email package has helped a lot, and the fact that I can receive messages from different boxes, and send messages from different boxes - all from a single application is godsent
... MS has a product called Outlook which dominates the market ..
- I also am warming up to password management programs so that I have fewer passwords to forget
... MS came up with something that was supposed to help me - PASSPORT
- I am trying to consolidate my "buddy" personalities into a manageable interface, and Trillian helps me. Now, wouldn't it be nice if MS came up with a product like they have done for earlier needs. But, no sir, they got nothing in this category. So, what do they do. They try to destroy the entire category.
I think this is unfair. I think this is injust. I think this is immoral.And I think it is worse.
Instead of helping me manage my different identities, MS is actually doing the opposite. MS is driving me to multiple personalities. MS is driving me to schizophrenia. This, I think is just, so, wrong.
To see a world in a grain of sand, and then to step back and see the beach where the sand lies
So...are you trying to say something about guys vs. girls? Cause if so, I'm very offended, I'm a guy and I believe myself to be VERY well behaved.
Sig & Below
Yuck Fou
I'll have to get my parents to switch to ICQ but that shouldn't be a problem.
Yeah mom just ignore the porn spam.
Besides, she's used to ignoring the porn spam. She has a Hotmail account.
I use SCOIM and it was only $699!
> So a company can spend millions of dollars
o problem.
> developing software and protocols, running servers,
> paying for bandwidth and then they have the gall to
> claim that every Joe Blow can't piggy back off of their
> service!! How dare they!
Well as long as they nearly threaten people with new XP installations to FINALLY get a passport account and sign on to messanger, they are *again* misusing their position in the operating system market to push their services. They should at least let other clients interoperate with them, which they in fact do. kopete.kde.org still works fine with msn.
>Sheesh... another Slashdot MS is evil rant fest. Let me
> know when there's a free Jabber server for public
> logins...
No problem, here is a nice list.
http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php
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No way, MSFT is going to lock the protocol down tight, just like the XBox.
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*Looks over at Gentoo running on the XBox*
Yeah, I'd give it a few days.