[JDEV] Microsoft Instant Messaging announcements

[Thomas D. Charron]

  I agree that it's a good thing, and it will be even better for jabber now that they have publically released a cross-network client, which will start people believing in a more universal IM system..

  Unfortionatly, I think their client sucks BIG eggs..


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Thomas Charron

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:29:29   Jeremie wrote:
>VERY interesting stuff here, and I think it's a great step!  The most
>important thing to note is that Microsoft is developing on an open
>protocol, currently RVP and in the future the IMPP specification.  This
>allows us to both write a Jabber transport to speak to any of Microsoft's
>IM products(clients and servers), as well as build an alternate Jabber
>server that speaks RVP for Microsoft client software to connect to.
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:27:32 -0700
>From: "Sonu Aggarwal (Exchange)" <sonuag at exchange.microsoft.com>
>To: "'impp at iastate.edu'" <impp at iastate.edu>
>Subject: Microsoft Instant Messaging announcements
>
>As you may have noticed, there was a flurry of announcements yesterday
>regarding Microsoft's new MSN Messenger service, unveiled midnight
>Wednesday.  Since many of you have asked for clarification, I thought I'd
>describe the relevant details for the list.
>
>Microsoft will have two IM offerings - the MSN Messenger Service, targeted
>at the mass market (like AOL, ICQ, etc.), and the Exchange Instant Messaging
>product, which will be a component of "Platinum" - the next version of
>Exchange,  targeted at the corporate space.  The MSN client will be the
>client for both offerings.  The Exchange Instant Messaging product has a
>federated server architecture and is based on the open and extensible RVP
>protocol (which is indicative of the sort of protocol the IMPP WG intends to
>design), while the MSN Messenger Service uses a different, MSN-specific
>protocol that is optimized for a large, centralized deployment like MSN.
>Microsoft is committed to moving both offerings to the IMPP protocol as and
>when it emerges.  The announcements refer to the fact that AOL has so far
>lacked involvement in IMPP efforts.
>
>The MSN Messenger service is available to anyone with a Hotmail account
>(which is free).  The MSN client can interop with AOL - one can have AOL
>contacts, Hotmail contacts, and RVP contacts on the same contact list
>concurrently.  The client logs the user into each service independently and
>communicates with the corresponding server-specific protocol to each
>service; there are no server gateways.
>
>Hope that clarifies.
>
>
>Sonu
>
>(Program Manager - Exchange Instant Messaging)
>
>


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