Actually, its probably more to do with security rather than 'cutting people off'.
The old method of authorisation to log into the MSN network was just sending an md5 encoded hash of your password/string, now from v4.6 and above they've used SSL, aswell as the fact they've updated the protocol and having to support 9 versions of it might just be getting abit much (YES 9!)..
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Actually, its probably more to do with security rather than 'cutting people off'.
The old method of authorisation to log into the MSN network was just sending an md5 encoded hash of your password/string, now from v4.6 and above they've used SSL, aswell as the fact they've updated the protocol and having to support 9 versions of it might just be getting abit much (YES 9!)..