Pidgin and the End of Windows Live Messenger

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Skype uses closed sourced proprietary protocol.
All strange or non-standard manipulations with skype protocol are baned by
IP on Skype servers.
Skype provides API which can be used in other program, but Skype program
must be runned.

2012/11/7 Jaldora Kyor <jaldorakyor at gmail.com>

> So I’m not entirely sure that this is the right place to mention this, but
> here goes:****
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> I know that in the past Pidgin hasn’t been interested in dealing with
> Skype. However, Microsoft has apparently decided to kill off Windows Live
> Messenger in Q1 2013 and transition all those users onto Skype instead.***
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> I don’t know if there are any statistics about what networks users use on
> Pidgin, but Windows Live Messenger has to be one of the largest IM networks
> in the western world, anyway.****
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> Is Pidgin going to decide to support Skype, or are they just going to let
> Windows Messenger drop out of Skype?****
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> (Alternatively, at least one person from Microsoft has mentioned that
> there will be potential legacy support for certainly clients- like the
> Windows Phone’s messenger client- to continue to access the new network,
> although they haven’t said how that’s going to be accomplished or for how
> long it would be available).****
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> Link:
> http://blogs.windows.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2012/11/06/the-next-chapter-for-the-windows-live-messenger-network.aspx
> ****
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> -Jaldora****
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