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| Time: 00:01 EST/05:01 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian. As of Oct. 15, users of Microsoft's free Web-based MSN Messenger and its Windows XP-based Windows Messenger will need to upgrade their software to a newer version or be shut out of the service, the software giant said Wednesday. MSN Messenger users will need to upgrade to version 5.0 of higher; Windows Messengers customers will need to upgrade to version 4.7.2009 or higher; and consumers with MSN Messenger for Mac OS X will have to use version 3.5 or higher. The last MSN Messenger to be released was version 6. <%=GetPoll(81)%> | ||
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| #1 By 37 (66.82.20.150) at 8/21/2003 10:07:51 AM |
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| #2 By 61 (24.92.223.112) at 8/21/2003 3:14:14 PM |
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If you take the time to read articles about this subject, you would realize that Microsoft is urging the 3rd party IM client makers to contact Microsoft so they can work out some interop.
Halcyon: I'm running WinMessenger v4, it's using 4mb of RAM. |
| #3 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at 8/21/2003 10:37:46 PM |
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mOOzilla: Those typelibs automate the Windows Messenger UI, you can't directly access the protocol.
MS did release the MSNPv2 protocol spec a long time ago, but that's horribly outdated. Last I checked, they were on MSNPv7 and I think MSN Messenger 6 uses something lik v9, but I may be wrong. There are several implementations of the MSNPv7 protocol (reverse engineered) and they work fairly well, but it's not fully legit, from what I understand. |
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