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Carl and I should have some fun speaking about some recent IM events


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Microsoft has taken a stab at trying to stop the proliferation of IM clients that log into their network that are not MS Messenger.  Interesting theory that a free service (that brings more registrations through these other clients) wants to start selling licenses to the third parties that develop the other IM clients.  Since the user must still register a username on the Microsoft Passport site, they are not losing marketing information.  But!!! They are losing marketing through the IM client itself.   Pop-ups or little banners and the like.

They also take the stance that they cannot control the other clients.  They spoke to Lissa Gurry, group product manager of MSN.

"Ideally, we'd know the folks on the network," Gurry said. "The way third-party services are being built without our permission, we don't know who is on the network."
Last week, Microsoft began notifying some of the affected third parties about the change last week, but Gurry said the company doesn't know the full extent of other clients and services connecting into its IM network.

If the third party client uses the same authentication across the same protocol, they are darn sure who is on the network.  Right?  There is even a cheesy little on-line form that they wish potential license buyers to fill out.  So if they use the same protocol you don't know who is accessing, but I hardly believe that Microsoft hasn't built something into the client like Notes does that shows version.  Think about it, as soon as you hit one of the public IM networks, they tell you there is an upgrade available when you use their clients (and have that turned on), so I would tend to think they know.

Then again we can't argue as Sametime started and remains an enterprise IM client.  Where Messenger, Yahoo and AOL started as public IM and are now moving into the enterprise space.  I don't even imagine Sametime in the ever appearing in the public forum, even after splitting out the IM only piece from the conferencing.

The article states they tried to reach my wonderful Trillian people, but no comment  from them.  As an FYI, they are now 3 years old and are doing the beta for 2.0 of the paid version.  Some cool new features.