[Leaplist] Re: Microsoft Suggest Linux Hotmail Users Use Outlook Express (long)

[Damien McKenna]

On Feb 3, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Thursday 31 January 2008 09:26, Damien McKenna wrote:
>> On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Kevin Anderson wrote:
>>> How about Instant Messaging Protocols?  (MS isn't alone here,
>>> admittedly).
>> Interestingly, everyone else in the IM world is migrating to Jabber/
>> XMPP - AOL just announced they were migrating to it, and GTalk has
>> always been based on it.
>
> Ugh.  I can't stand any Jabber client I've used so far under X  
> Window.  Mostly
> seem stuck with Pidgin, which I absolutely despise and won't use.


There's a flip side to this you aren't seeing - if all of the IM  
services are migrating to Jabber then it means that fairly shortly  
you'll be able to use any client to connect to Jabber.

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