Finally listening to the customer (Yahoo + Microsoft)

[Newby]

Terrell Karlsten, a Yahoo spokeswoman , said the new interoperability service, enabling users of different IM services to contact each other, is the most requested IM feature.

Microsoft and Yahoo finally begin to allow the intercommuncation between YIM and Live Messenger.

What is sad is that even with those two networks communicating with each other, they're just barely ahead of AOL, who has nearly twice the number of users they do seperately.

[iago]

I wonder if MS or Yahoo are going to try to patent the idea.  Then somebody can point out the ICQ and AIM sorta did that (although it was the same company, it was two networks merged). 

[CrAz3D]

that'd be nice to have inter-client communication

[Warrior]

I wonder if MS or Yahoo are going to try to patent the idea.  Then somebody can point out the ICQ and AIM sorta did that (although it was the same company, it was two networks merged). 

What about the Jabber thing? Wouldn't they be able to sue them? Last I checked Jabber was all the protocols mixed together.

[iago]

I could be wrong, but I think that Jabber is its own protocol.  Jabber is an open protocol based on XML, iirc.

[Joe]

iago is correct.

[Sidoh]

I could be wrong, but I think that Jabber is its own protocol.  Jabber is an open protocol based on XML, iirc.

Yeah, I think so too.  GoogleTalk uses it! :)

Also, this has been up in the air for quite some time.  Someone in my guild was talking about it a few months ago.