[JDEV] MSN vs Jabber

[Max Metral]

Definitely agree with that one.  But I would say that also speaks to the
fact that it wasn't the monopoly power that helped, it was the feature set.
(Odigo had AOL interop first I think, but it's debatable whether they're
large or not. :) )

-----Original Message-----
From: Wing, Oliver [mailto:owing at vianetworks.co.uk]
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 6:16 AM
To: jdev at jabber.org
Subject: Re: [JDEV] MSN vs Jabber


Max,

> How would you explain the fact that MSN overtook AOL before it was
> integrated with anything (I'm not sure on this one, but I recall it being
in
> that order)?  I don't *think* MSN Messenger was integrated with ME, just
XP.
> And I agree that's just not fair.  (I wish the gov't would focus on useful
> issues, not this nonsense about whether HTTP and HTML objects are
integrated
> with the OS (which they should be at this point))

Just a small point. MSN originally started by offering support for AIM too.
In that respect, it would have gained ground, because it did what no-one (of
any large commerical company) did before.

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