Mickaël posted yesterday On MSN / Live Messenger adopting XMPP. Today, we’ll dig a little more in technical details. Here are some technical details and some explainations, as well as some questions. Microsoft’s public XMPP server Microsoft’s public XMPP server is located at: xmpp:messenger.live.com. You can double check on IMtrends: https://www.imtrends.com/do/search_domain_simple?domain=messenger.live.com&x=19&y=7 Microsoft had been testing… Continue reading Details on MSN’s XMPP server
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