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How Google Could Overthrow AIM
An anonymous reader writes "There's an interesting article over at Apple-X.net that speculates on the possibility of an instant-messaging service offered by Google that would be based on the open Jabber protocol. If Jabber was supported by a major company like Google, it could dominate over proprietary services such as AIM or MSN."
Joogle? No. Should be called Gabber. :)
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In the end, most IM protocols are the same, so really, it just matters what format is supported, and what your friends use. If everyone would switch over to something that's open, then you would have a choice about the software. I really hate the AIM software, but a lot of my friends use it, so I'm stuck with it unless I want to go with third party software that stops working every other week. Honestly the MSN messanger software is better than AIM.
So I would gladly use Jabber if anyone else did.
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grin, the address I use for MSN is a Hotmail account (as the other replier suggested), an account I never read or check, but which I do occasionally use when being forced to sign up for things. :P
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