Instant Messaging Interoperability extended through XMPP and new partnerships
Today, Microsoft announced a new XMPP Gateway for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 that enables interoperability with Cisco Jabber/XMPP and Google Talk, along with new licensing options for Office Communications Server customers to connect with AOL and Windows Live (read the details of the announcement).
I had a chance to seat down with Ashima Singhal (Senior Product Manager) and Albert Kooiman (Senior Product Manager) from the Communication Server team to discuss the news focusing on Instant Messaging (IM) interoperability between different networks. Here's what they have to say about how all of this works:
This video is posted on the Channel9 Interoperability topic area: Instant Messaging Interoperability extended through XMPP (Jabber)
Links:
- Unified Communications: Uniting Communication Across Different Networks
- Communication Server team blog: New PIC Licensing and released XMPP
Gateway - Download link for the XMPP gateway: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141529
Jean-Christophe Cimetiere, Sr. Technical Evangelist
Comments
Anonymous
October 01, 2009
So when will MSN messenger switch to XMPP ?Anonymous
October 01, 2009
To Kael: Sorry. I do not know what Live (MSN) Messenger would do in that respect. JCAnonymous
October 01, 2009
@jccim Thanks for your reply. Just an argument to convince the decision-makers : imagine a Wave conversation between GTalk and MSN Live users. :)