MSN Messenger upgrade blocks Trillian

[Aaron73153]

Bad news for all of you Trillian users.

Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.

As of Oct. 15, users of Microsoft's free Web-based MSN Messenger and its Windows XP-based Windows Messenger will need to upgrade their software to a newer version or be shut out of the service, the software giant said Wednesday. MSN Messenger users will need to upgrade to version 5.0 of higher; Windows Messengers customers will need to upgrade to version 4.7.2009 or higher; and consumers with MSN Messenger for Mac OS X will have to use version 3.5 or higher. The last MSN Messenger to be released was version 6.

According to Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall, "Security issues that could be posed (on older versions) require us to force an upgrade." He declined to detail the security issue, saying disclosure would "put customers at undue risk."

Meanwhile, Oct. 15 also will mark the deadline for Trillian support for MSN Messenger. Trillian is software that integrates multiple IM clients into a common interface. While it doesn't enable IM services to communicate directly with one another, it lets people view all of their buddy lists from various services under one window.

more here (http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5066412.html?tag=fd_top)

Microsoft onece again bullying a small company

[serrebi101]

I think that ms should have givin devs of trillion and the like more time then 2 months, who knows what they have to do to make there progs connect properly.

[Ken17625]

Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.

And I wouldn't be suprised if GayOL does this next.

It's called, "keep your customers from getting a different ISP by not allowing them to IM friends on their service", thus making them rethink the advantages of getting a better ISP.

It's really quite underhanded, but hey, this is Microsoft.

[Potato]

Doesn't AOL own the copyright to instant messenger programs? Something like that anyways. I heard about it last December I think.

[RACKnRAIL]

This sucks bad! My whole family uses Trillian. One app for all of our needs. I hope Trillian works out something with M$.

[Theinfamousone]

I won't miss it. I hate Microsoft Messenger immensely and don't even talk to people who use it with Trillian.

Hopefully this will get a lot of people to switch over to AIM or ICQ and dump their Micro crap.

[collideous]

Originally posted by Ken17625
And I wouldn't be suprised if GayOL does this next.

They already did. It was a cat and mouse game for a few weeks where Trillian kept providing patches, and AOHell kept shutting them out. In the end AOL gave up, and Trillian users kept the connection with their AIM buddies.

[RACKnRAIL]

I hope they can manage the same with MSN.

[Julian]

MSN is a poor messenging system, anyway I thought that they liked the trillian guys also. Must be a change in managment. ;)