Microsoft adds XMPP support to Windows Live

Re:Microsoft adds XMPP support to Windows Live by k33l0r on Thursday September 15, 2011 @01:24PM (#3001197)

It seems that they chose to "enhance" it with a proprietary authentication mechanism ("X_MESSENGER_OAUTH2"): http://www.process-one.net/en/blogs/article/details_on_msns_...

Because, you know, it would be silly if you could just use any off-the-shelf XMPP client/library...

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Re:Microsoft adds XMPP support to Windows Live by hamidpalo on Thursday September 15, 2011 @01:30PM (#3001220)

It's not an "enhancement." It uses OAuth in a completely standard way. It was done to avoid people entering their Windows Live usernames and passwords all over the place, especially now considering how much can be tied to a WL account with Win 8.

I was part of the team that did this and we went to great lengths to make sure that we were in full compliance with the relevant RFCs.

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Re:Microsoft adds XMPP support to Windows Live by dreijerbit on Thursday September 15, 2011 @04:03PM (#3001887)

What's your take on this, hamidpalo: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/messengerconne...

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Re:Microsoft adds XMPP support to Windows Live by untog on Friday September 16, 2011 @08:21AM (#3004141)

I think the Facebook example provided in that post is exactly what they are trying to avoid- people entering their usernames and passwords into random chat clients. After all, you have no idea what they do with them.

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Re:Microsoft adds XMPP support to Windows Live by Zash on Saturday September 17, 2011 @03:24AM (#3007481)

And then they (Facebook) expect you to give them your mail- and other IM credentials.

At least they do have DIGEST-MD5 auth, so you can still login with most normal XMPP clients.

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Re:Microsoft adds XMPP support to Windows Live by rbanffy on Thursday September 15, 2011 @01:25PM (#3001201)

Bets like mine are so easy it's not even fun.

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