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Next iChat version to include Jabber support

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the behind-the-firewall dept.

SeaFox writes "A couple of stories about new features in the next version of Mac OS X have revealed that the new iChat 3.0 will include support for Jabber. With businesses able to host their own messaging servers behind the firewall and use it with Apple's included IM client, will this effect Jabber's overall share of the IM market?"

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  1. Argh... by d3m057h3n35 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Second day in a row I've seen effect/affect misused in a summary. I didn't even read the summary or the article. My eyes zoomed right to the offending gramatical error, and I began contemplating suicide for being such an annally-retentive, grammatically-obsessed freak. Ah well.

  2. Re:Affect, not effect by Kiryat+Malachi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Effect and affect can both be used as verbs.

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  3. Re:Affect, not effect by poptones · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Except one is more affective than the other...

  4. Re:Affect, not effect by LikelyStory · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yes, they can both be used as verbs. But not to mean the same thing. To effect something is to bring it about, or make it happen; to affect something, is to influence it somehow. They're both nouns too....

  5. Re:Affect, not effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about. From http://www.dictionary.com/

  6. Re:ah yes well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    different, d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-t, different

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    Apple

  7. Re:Sex with a mare? by agentforsythe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just switched my comment threshold to -1... didn't realise there were such morons on here until now.

  8. Intresting.. by mrdavidk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slightly off-topic. When browsing the apple's tiger preview section and checking out it's features I clicked on Safari RSS and guess what? http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/safari.html First person to to guess right gets...ahh...hmmm..a cookie?

  9. Re:Your not alone by lavar78 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    He clearly meant to be funny. "Your" should be "You're" and "apostrophe's" should be "apostrophes."

    Hey, I thought it was funny.

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  10. Re:Maybe Apple can make the damn thing configurabl by nursedave · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You know, its funny.... As much as I read this and the parent, I can't quite think of why it has been rated as, currently, '-1,Flamebait.'

    Then I realized - this is Twirlip. And this is Slashdot. Populated by Slashholes who probably hate having their silly lefty ideas thrown into the garbage disposal by Twirlip, and hey, now they have modpoints to use to get back at him!

    What a bunch of dicks.

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