Bye bye MSN

I’ve been using MSN in parallel with some other protocols in Miranda IM ¹ and as MS had announced last year, they retired it in October this year. Well, bad luck. The old protocol was a defacto standard and open. The new one (“Skype”) is proprietary ² and no one knows how to talk to it without an installed Skype client or some third-party web services that may just as well be directly run by the NSA.

// Oliver

1. previously also Trillian Pro and GAIM, now Pidgin [↩]
2. what a surprise, though, MS was always known to support open protocols *wink* *wink* [↩]