Presence and IntComm WG

["Will, Rodger (R.)" <>]

Title: RE: [wg-pic] Microsoft chooses SIP/SIMPLE

In addition, MS has taken great steps to "balkanize" SIP/SIMPLE by requiring additional "Access Proxies" to communicate with other SIP/SIMPLE implementations.  The only permitted integraton opportunities requires .NET API level programming.

What MS is doing here is trying to com off as - Hey we are great folks...  We are open!  Look SIP/SIMPLE inside! 

However, what they have really created is another Office Suite-centric Closed Enterprise IM Implementation.


-----Original Message-----
From:   Peter Parnes []
Sent:   Sat 3/25/2006 1:55 PM
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Subject:        Re: [wg-pic] Microsoft chooses SIP/SIMPLE

Evening,

MS has been on the SIP bandwagon for several years (since about 2001)
with both its RTC library (standard part of Windows XP) and MS Messenger
that has been using SIP/SIMPLE since version 4.7.x. Earlier versions of
MS Messenger even allowed you to use your own SIP server (something they
later on removed).

MS Messenger = Windows Messenger
not to be confused with MSN Messenger that it something else.
MSN Messenger is currently changing name to Windows Live Messenger as of
version 8 (currently in beta).

Have a nice weekend.

-Peter Parnes, PhD
Associate Professor
Media Technology
Luleå University of Technology

Chief Scientist Marratech