Zacknafain Do'Urden wrote:
So what is it? Has microsoft decided to make a play for propritary tech or something?
In this case, it is probably a case of being reckless about Pidgin, etc., but, if you actually read the terms of use you agree to when you sign up to the MSN service, you will find that you agree not to use Pidgin or any other client not in a short list of approved clients.
Part of this will be for protection against misoperating clients, but a major factor will be protecting the business model on which the service is based. For example, a recent comment was that Pidgin avoided the adverts that you get with Live Messenger, but one of the reasons Microsoft will operate that service free of charge to end users will be the advertising revenue that they obtain.
In this case, the change was probably made for valid security reasons, but it seems to have taken short cuts which rely on an updated client having information coded into it that the server would have to provide, in other cases, such as accessing https URLs. The Microsoft client will have this update done, but until they make the change, unofficial clients may have no reason to believe that the client has been prepared for such a change.
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