This morning I tried to connect to MSN with my preferred client pidgin, which uses the newest MSN protocol version 15. But it seems that Microsoft changed something, that does not allow clients using this version of the protocol to download the Address Book. Very clever move. That includes Microsoft’s own versions of Live messenger.
To ommit this you have to use a client with an older version of the MSNP.
Pidgin users can use msn-pecan atm. Get it at http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/
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Posted by Instant Messaging bør nytte opne standarder! | /dev/urandom on January 12th, 2009.
seo tools…
Nice info….keep it up
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Posted by seo tools on January 26th, 2009.
The bug has been resolved and was due to alteration of the certificate they used for fetching the contact list.
Posted by Tomasz Cielecki on January 29th, 2009.