Microsoft is retiring its six-year-old NetMeeting online conferencing application. Instead, the company will push Office Live Meeting, formerly known as PlaceWare, for online meetings.
NetMeeting helped pioneer online conferencing when it was released in May 1996, before the advent of instant messaging and other services for real-time online communication. The software still ships as part of Windows and some of its features, such as whiteboarding and application-sharing, are used by the MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger IM applications.
But NetMeeting has served its purpose and will gradually be phased out, Microsoft spokesperson Stacy Drake says. Microsoft has already stopped development work on NetMeeting and links from MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger will be cut in future updates to those products, she says.
Instead, Microsoft's IM applications will link to Office Live Meeting, Drake says. “Since buying PlaceWare we will focus our real time collaboration efforts on Office Live Meeting,” she says.
Microsoft completed the acquisition of PlaceWare in April and launched a new version of the service in September.
MECA, a leader in promotional messenger marketing services announced today that it has inked a deal with mobile messaging firm IPSH to create the first messenger interoperable carrier interoperable (MICI) solution.
This new standard is a giant leap for (desktop to mobile) convergence as it will link together twenty-six U.S. cell phone carriers and desktop messenger networks such as Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, through MECA's own proprietary system. The majority of U.S. cell phone subscribers and messenger users will be able to communicate with each other through one platform for the first time.
The announcement is a breakthrough as MECA will be the first platform to integrate interoperable versions of the fastest forms of communication in the world, messaging and SMS. Both messaging and SMS are growing at a historic pace and are set to dethrone email and voice calls as the primary forms of communication as early as 2006 according to industry research firm, The Radicati Group. The new MICI platform has the potential to connect well over 100 million cell phone subscribers and messenger accounts in the United States.
“We have worked hard to achieve interoperable desktop to mobile convergence and have found a great partner in IPSH to help us achieve this goal. The jointly developed MICI platform is a first for the industry and will go a long way toward bringing previously unconnected people together through one experience,” says Bruce Klickstein, President MECA.
The initial MICI launch is tentatively scheduled for launch Q1 2004.
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Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation. Just unzip and run!
This also makes it ideal for users that want to run their messenger client from a removable storage such as an USB memory stick. It can even be stored on a floppy disc if not too many plugins are used.
The powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM extremely flexible. Only the most basic features are built in, but there are currently more than 200 free plugins available for download that allows users to extend the functionality in Miranda IM.
Just a quick note that MSN Messenger 6.1 has been updated to build 202, and some protocol changes have been put into effect, eg. the server no longer supports requesting of lists using LST and LSG, you can only send SYN once and some characters with ASCII values less than 30 are not allowed in nick names.
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kaos posted on the forum some code for Passport authentication using the WinHTTP object. I have made another copy of the surprisingly popular VB Client Foundation to use the same method, and its a lot less code!