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Microsoft, Yahoo Finally Merge IM Networks
WinBreak writes "Marketwatch is reporting that, nine months after their announcement, Microsoft and Yahoo! are finally ready to roll out beta IM clients of MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger that will be able to talk to each other." The Windows Live Ideas and Yahoo! Messenger pages have more information; the companies say that the resulting user community will be the world's largest, at around 350 million accounts, and that they'll be using SSL to encrypt the traffic between the systems.
I thought it was just there to temp you to (unsuccessfully) delete it from your computer. I didn't know it was an actual messanger.
...now I can keep all my viruses in one handy box.
One client in the darkness to bind them. Lets see how fast the worms spread after this.
How many of those are bots? ha!
On a more serious note, I wonder what rules they used to deal with dupes (AFAIK, you can register for MSN with any e-mail... what about yahoo accounts? maybe I'm misinformed)
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You know, some of us don't care for all the bells and whistles that make your precious chat clients unstable and buggy. Voice & Video support? That's a sure fire way to leave a memory footprint the size of Alaska on 350 million user's computers. ...and those grapes were sour anyway so I didn't even want them.
It will continue to apdapt and evolve until it becomes sentient, but it will still be beta, and they will call it Google ShutUp.
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Nobody want voice. I mean, voice communication with somebody you dont see face to face?
What an absurd concept.
Nobody will every put that kind of stupid technology in use...
(besides 2 billion mobile phones sold worldwide and much more landlines than there are internet connected computers. Think again moron)
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
>So why doesn't Microsoft (and other companies too) follow the example given by google and instead of rolling their own protocols (MSN keeps on altering them God knows why) contribute to the jabber standards?
So let me get this straight: you're wondering why Microsoft is pushing their own protocol, you're wondering why they keep altering it AND you're wondering why they're not pushing an open standard instead?
You REALLY must be new here.
No.
YOU are the weakest link. Goodbye.
homer:~$ ngrep MSG -d eth1 port 1863 ;)
interface: eth1 (10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0)
filter: ip and ( port 1863 )
match: MSG
###############
T 207.46.26.138:1863 -> 10.20.20.176:1319 [AP]
MSG strathcona@hotmail.com FunFun 141..MIME-Version: 1.0..Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8..X-MMS-IM-Format: FN=Arial; EF=; CO=0....I sure hope they don't start encrypting MSN traffic... what would I do at work during the down times
Aha ha ha. Oh, gosh that's so f...
Oh to Hell with it.