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Microsoft Messenger Architect On The Future Of IM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the certainly-packs-a dept.

CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an interview with Peter Ford, chief architect for MSN Messenger, by Eric Allman, CTO of Sendmail. They discuss the present and future states of IM, the current big players as industry shuffles toward standardization, some of the social implications of IM versus email or telephone, and technical issues such as using SIP as opposed to XMPP (Microsoft is pushing for SIP, everyone else seems to favor XMPP). They don't bring up Wallop, Microsoft's community application that will be built into Longhorn, but that's surely part of the long-term discussion."

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  6. Re:I'm not *trying* to troll, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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