Bloggerman - Microsoft is Restricting Access to MSN Messenger

Posted by Kevin on September 19th, 2003 at 12:00 pm AST [email] [website]

Microsoft provides Messenger for free, but it obviously costs them a lot of money to keep the servers up and running. I don't think they have any obligation to allow third-party access to the service.

That said, it would be nice if they did allow it, so that people can amalgamate their use of different messaging services. This allows MSN Messenger, however, to be used on other operating systems like Linux.

Microsoft is a business, and their core revenue source is the Windows family of operating systems. I think now, when Linux is becoming a real threat to Windows, is the time when Microsoft is going to limit interoperability as best it can, to make it harder for users to switch to Linux. A lot of people might not like this very much, but it makes perfect business sense.

Posted by Vinod Alex Philip on September 25th, 2003 at 3:45 am AST [email]

It is not obligatory for Microsoft to continue with its MSN Service. Having started it as a free Service, and owing to increasing misuse of the Service they stand right in deciding to discontinue the Service. It sometimes looks quite sour that we people having used their FREE service for such a long time suddenly feel that it's Obligatory on the part of Microsoft to Continue it's MSN Service. Let's atleast be thankful to them for having provided this Free Service for such a long time. As for Business "YES" Microsoft is like any other Company that intends to make revenues from their Investments... Linux Bigwigs too now sell their OS for a Price...though not big enough..Infact nobody would want to give a Software let alone an OS for Free after having invested Millions of Dollars for its Development. We should be reasonable..and personally I believe that they have every right to integrate a Service / Application / package into their OS and it's for users to decide if they want to use a service. Overall we should be atleast thankful to them for without their reach and the Windows OS it never would have been possible for this load of Users to surf the Internet so easily...For Newbies LINUX remains a Nightmare...on the otherhand the WINDOWS OS is far User Friendly and easy to use and deploy. Indeed as the ease of use increases so does the BUG rate too..
Let's hope that soon Microsoft implements a new way of Messenger Experience with Security / Policing as some would like to call it....and don't forget then People would start yelling / grumbling that the service is slow..has a lot of security issues..and so on.... THIS will never STOP.

Posted by Brad Pineau on October 16th, 2003 at 11:05 am AST [email] [website]

Looks like they have started banning access... I couldn't log into my MSN account with Miranda today.

Posted by Ron Myers on October 16th, 2003 at 11:57 am AST [email] [website]

Follow up article here

Posted by Brad Pineau on October 16th, 2003 at 2:06 pm AST [email] [website]

Stephen from NewRecruit pointed this out to me... if you download the MSN v.8 Protocol Plugin, you can continue to login to the MSN network with Miranada.

Posted by bod_ on October 24th, 2003 at 6:46 pm AST [email] [website]

Mircosoft will pay. With the increase intrest of Linux microsoft's OS will burn in hell!

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