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Re:What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support? by Maarten88 on Thursday May 16, 2013 @09:33AM (#5718519)
> Does Microsoft have an open messaging protocol that I don't know of?

Even better, they support an standard called SIP. [1]

> Or an open source operating system? Or an open source browser?

They believe in open standards more than open source, although the Azure group very actively supports open source lately

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol

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Re:What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support? by kalleboo on Thursday May 16, 2013 @10:00AM (#5718631)
> Even better, they support an standard called SIP. [1]

Not in Skype they don't

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Re:What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support? by Dylan16807 on Thursday May 16, 2013 @12:14PM (#5719392)
To be fair they bought skype and haven't really changed it. Which is actually an improvement over the previous company that kept removing things.
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