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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: sime on 31 August 2003, 15:09

Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: sime on 31 August 2003, 15:09
Cough up yer cash or else... Same old sameo, such a nice bunch of feretts old MS$... NOT!

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/31/0059234.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=187&tid=95 (http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/31/0059234.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=187&tid=95)

Sime
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: Baikonur on 31 August 2003, 17:38
Microsoft is a cash-hungry cow.

With $50 billion in reserves . . .

I want to send Mr. Gates this complimentary link:

www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/you.html (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/you.html)
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: Refalm on 31 August 2003, 20:31
I've been getting this message lately while MSN'ing with dMSN (http://www.dmsn.nl/) (a kick ass freeware MSN client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows):

 
quote:
.NET Messenger Service Staff: You are running a version of messenger that requires an immediate security update. Please visit http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx (http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx) to complete the update.


That would actually be a "downdate".
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: Stilly on 1 September 2003, 00:45
yeah, that thing is very annoying, and of course its un blockable
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: suselinux on 1 September 2003, 01:48
I got it using Kopete, just got it again as I was typing this.

The ".NET Messenger Staff" showed up on my contacts list so I just blocked them, so far I haven't seen them again, but it's only been five minutes.

 last night i was getting that stupid message every two minutes, I had to set my chat session to "Always on top" in KDE so I wouldn't be interupted.

CUMGUZLERSOFT!
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: mobrien_12 on 1 September 2003, 02:06
Are you suprised?
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: Mirrorball on 1 September 2003, 02:29
I'm as angry as a person could be. I want TOTAL MICROSFOT ANNIHILATION!
This is the kind of crap I have to listen to:
 
quote:

Of course there are other instant messaging clients but they will stop to evolve like Netscape, only MSN Messenger will evolve.
You know I love ICQ, but I have to admit that MSN Messenger is ahead of it.

No one deserves to have friends like that. An ASP.NET developer, in fact.
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: Refalm on 1 September 2003, 03:14
Yeah me too. MSN is really just more primitive. Losers say "MSN is sooo great because it got games!".

And so does Y!IM (http://messenger.yahoo.com/), they've been doing that for over 3 years now.

[ August 31, 2003: Message edited by: Refalm ]

Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: Stilly on 1 September 2003, 03:30
all my friends always bitch at me for not having windows because I can't do some whiteboard shit or use the voice chat thingy (even though there is one in AIM)
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: sime on 1 September 2003, 15:53
How about Jabber,

Better protocol, better clients, runs on Linux. Why not set up a Jabberd server or client depending on what you want to do and have access to (I'm currently setting up a private Jabber server, just need to make it run over SSL so it's secure)  

http://www.jabber.org/ (http://www.jabber.org/)

Sime
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: suselinux on 2 September 2003, 01:59
one of my cousins is using Yahoo messenger for windows, and hey look what I found to my surprise

a Yahoo endorced, supported, and produced IM client for Linux/Unix

web page (http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html)
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: suselinux on 2 September 2003, 02:00
quote:
Originally posted by suselinux:
one of my cousins is using Yahoo messenger for windows, and hey look what I found to my surprise

a Yahoo endorced, supported, and produced IM client for Linux/Unix

web page (http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html)



and it actually works too!

sorry about the double post I thought I hit the edit button  :(    (http://smile.gif)    :(

[ September 01, 2003: Message edited by: suselinux ]

Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: Windows_SuX_@$$ on 2 September 2003, 03:05
Whats the code for that penguin its cool
Title: Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
Post by: emh on 2 September 2003, 07:26
The problem is, it hasn't been updated for some time.

There is a slightly newer version of Linux Yahoo messenger out there somewhere that also includes file transfer support.

AOL Instant Messenger for Linux is, however, updated regularly.