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• Roy Bixler

  2009-01-12 15:58:04

  That's typical MS behaviour; software churn and upgrade treadmill. It is ironic in light of the IM wars of years ago when Microsoft complained about AOL's proprietary IM service and proposed IM interoperability. Of course, that didn't happen. I believe that Google's GTalk is the only one that uses an open standard IM protocol.

• Diamond Wakizashi

  2009-01-12 19:44:23

  "MSN No Longer for GNU/Linux Users?"
  
  That's fine with me! They want to lose even more users to Google? This sounds like another one of that crazed lunatic Ballmer's idiotic ideas.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-01-12 19:49:10

  They must be aware of this problem by now.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-01-12 19:51:43

  Update:
  
  A minute ago (in IRC)...
  
  <trmanco> :-P <trmanco> LOL <trmanco> msn got back online <trmanco> wait, maybe I'm dreaming <trmanco> no I'm not <trmanco> it is back online <trmanco> yep, people can confirm this <trmanco> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/316252 se the latest comments <trmanco> see* <trmanco> crappy servers :|

• Diamond Wakizashi

  2009-01-12 20:07:09

  "crappy servers"
  
  They are using their own nasty Windows garbageware?

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-01-12 20:21:26

  Here's what it is:
  
  (20:15:09) soap: current HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:15:07 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727

• trmanco

  2009-01-12 20:22:35

  @Diamond Wakizashi
  
  Yes...
  
  Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:15:07 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727

• Diamond Wakizashi

  2009-01-12 20:27:33

  Their IT people probably wish they could use Linux. The Windows garbageware is making their jobs much more difficult.

• Needs Sunlight

  2009-01-12 21:03:01

  Even for those still stuck in Windows, it is time to drop MSN.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-01-12 21:06:48

  I think that it's friends who use MSN that are the cause,

• Mikko

  2009-01-12 21:52:46

  MSN works with pidgin 2.2.1

• Lyle Howard Seave

  2009-01-12 22:09:09

  >I think that it’s friends who use MSN that are the cause
  
  It is. Its hard to get people to change IM's. Even more so people who arent technically able. ("Install how?") Once Yahoo and MSN were able to communicate together, a lot of people I know dumped the hotmail identity they had created JUST to be able to communicate with by IM w/ friends/family who used the IM 'that came with the computer'.
  
  I have friends and family around the world who run ICQ, Yahoo/MSN, AOL, Skype, IRC, Googletalk and a few others. I use them all except Skype on Kopete, so its not like Im a client of their other services in any way but the protocol they use.
  
  I hope XMPP can do for IM what SMTP did for email.
  
  E-mail previously existed in closed communities including AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy and the rest of the Internet. When SMTP (with all its flaws, spam and security problems) won out in the long run, it made email a truly universal communication.
  
  Open standards are not the friends of monopolies.

• lachlan

  2009-01-14 06:22:05

  it's probably because pidgin is crap.
  
  for msn i use emesene from their SVN repo and i haven't had an issue with using msn since then.
  
  the issue being that all my friends use windows and therefore msn, you'd also look pretty lame trying to chat up girls on msn while telling them that linux is so much sexier on a girl.

• Omar Hafez

  2009-01-14 09:43:13

  @ lachlan
  
  No, Pidgin is good for GTalk and some IRC but not for MSN and Yahoo. I'm forced to use MSN because some of my friends use it, so I use emesene to access it, and it's working like a charm.