AIM and MSn about to communicate

[toast]

Good news from the CNET newsletter:

AOL, Microsoft to talk about IM

As part of their major truce announced Thursday, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft pledged to discuss making their instant messenger products talk to each other.

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[chevy]

Does that mean that iChat will access MSN ?

 

[symphonix]

That would be pretty cool. All of my chat contacts are on the dark side. ;-)

 

[OS X-ite]

that would be pretty cool ... but seeing as only two people i know are on MSN, its not absolutley neded. a welcome change at any rate ^~

 

[toast]

Yes chevy, it surely means iChat would be MSN capable, otherwise the cooperation between AIM and MSN would be pointless for many.

I think this cooperation will also mean the MSN commercial functions (like sending SMS) will be there for us all. Maybe that's why Quicktime 6.3 has all this phone stuf...