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Re:Microsoft says goodbye to Windows Live brand by 0x0 on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @05:28PM (#3921293)
The most interesting part here is that they seem to embrace XMPP for their MSN service!
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Re:Microsoft says goodbye to Windows Live brand by jacabado on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @07:12PM (#3921666)
They already did for some time, I am not sure if they've done in the scope of this rebrand, it is surely an welcome addition. [1]

Don't expect that it just works with any XMPP client as it uses a proprietary authentication mechanism "very similar to Facebook" OAUTH2.[1] More popular clients have already integrated it.

That's why Windows devs drink.

[1] http://blog.process-one.net/details_on_msns_xmpp_server/

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