blitzkrg Posted October 30, 2001 Author Share Posted October 30, 2001 nuggetman: AOL is REQUIRED by FCC law to open up there IM service. that was THE selling point (or at least the one that everyone made the biggest stink over) REGARDLESS of wether they add advanced features to it, is irrevelant. They are OBLIGATED to do so by the FCC, even if it's just basic text chat. they still HAVE to do so... and from what i found out today by looking inside msn messanger they are going to be doing it SOON... ms wouldnt waste the man power to setting up the service if AOL wasnt going to do it.. and i think MS knows more about it than you or I.. and again by the dialogs inside of the new messenger it's going to happen soon!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-23721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioboy Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 No, blitzkrg, I'm afraid you're wrong. I'd like to point you to http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4427568.html. Scroll down about 14 lines and you'll see: Under the conditions, AOL Time Warner must guarantee interoperability in its IM services before offering "advanced IM-based high-speed services," such as videoconferencing.This provision does not affect AOL's current AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ services, rather it only affects future applications that would take advantage of high-speed Net access. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-23879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrg Posted October 30, 2001 Author Share Posted October 30, 2001 nuggetman: dont mean to sound rude, but NO your wrong... 1) that link you posted doesnt exist 2) I DO NOT think your lieing, HOWEVER.. "Under the conditions, AOL Time Warner must guarantee interoperability in its IM services before offering "advanced IM-based high-speed services," such as videoconferencing. This provision does not affect AOL's current AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ services, rather it only affects future applications that would take advantage of high-speed Net access. " what that means is (from the quote) "Under the conditions, AOL Time Warner must guarantee interoperability in its IM services " it says they MUST GUARUNETEE... BEFORE they create any NEW products.. however if you check this link http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6874533.html you will see it says not only that the fcc requires them to update them on the status every 180 days, but that they are already testing interoperability with IBM and it even says that the new ms messenger is shipping with the capability to be interoperable.. also on a side note from that article "When asked whether AOL plans to offer interoperability with Microsoft, AOL spokeswoman Kathy McKiernan raised concerns about the "anti-competitive elements" of XP, such as the embedding of "the messaging product into their monopoly operating system." "These issues would have to be looked at seriously before we can consider anything in this (interoperability) area," McKiernan said" This is just a load of horse **** from AOL.. the FCC says they freaking HAVE TO, must, no freaking way around it.. so for them to say we have to look at this and have to look at that, is just crap.. the government says they HAVE TO no if's and's or but's!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-24133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethere Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 The page does exist. You just have to take out the period at the end of the URL ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-24148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
YahoKa Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 What about that trillian program? It incorporates different IM's, doesnt it? Obviously its not as good as Micorshafts IM, but at least it is interoperable. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-24151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethere Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 Originally posted by YahoKa What about that trillian program? It incorporates different IM's, doesnt it? Obviously its not as good as Micorshafts IM, but at least it is interoperable. The Trillian progrma is OK. It's not the worst IM in the world. But, it does have some issues. It's layout is not the best. That I have to agree with. I just think MSN Messenger is a better all around IM. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-24160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronXP Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 Anybody tried Imici yet? Could be better than Trillian http://www.imici.com/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-24275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Sunde Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 Very nice indeed... but, no file tranfers, HATE "chat" msg mode.. other than that, nice looking and nice.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-24311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJediMedia Posted December 22, 2001 Share Posted December 22, 2001 BLAME AOL ALL THE WAY!!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/3457-messenger-is-interoperable/page/2/#findComment-62319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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