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		shmerl on Jan 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Messenger will be retired and users migr... That's a good question. MS started to move in the right direction with XMPP support, even though they didn't get up to supporting federation. If that will be dropped - it would be just another proliferation of the isolated IM networks.

Zash on Jan 13, 2013 [–]

According to http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/micros... they will drop XMPP support.

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