Another I-nternet attraction is the topsy-turvy farce of Microsoft lashing out at America Online for refusing to make its chat client, AOL Instant Messenger, interoperable with Microsoft's chat client, MSN Messenger.
At no point has Microsoft offered to open its own chat client to AOL or anyone else -- openness only goes one way here.
The idea is to allow gamers to chat with anyone using Microsoft's instant messaging products--in addition to allowing them to blast text messages to other gamers.
It required a broadband connection so that Microsoft could add features like universal voice chat, more downloadable games and extras, and the ability to buy and listen to music.
Google and Singtel are rapidly signing up small and medium-sized companies in Asia to use the Google Apps suite of web software (email, video, chat, office software like Microsoft Office).
The admissions office uses Microsoft's Net Meeting to conduct online chat sessions that let prospective students and their parents ask college administrators questions about admissions, financial aid and housing.
The first chat was during the period when Microsoft was defending itself against the U.S. Department of Justice in front of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the late 1990s.
SAP's tool, called Gravity, lets users design business processes in Wave, while Novell's Pulse, a stand-alone product that will be released in 2010, will add security features, an improved chat function and live editing of Microsoft Office documents.
Focusing on integrating Windows Live Messenger into Skype and simultaneously providing a better user experience for chat could be a smart move for Microsoft, especially as Skype is so heavily integrated into Windows 8.
Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool and replace it with Skype's messaging tool.
Similar to the free program Roger Wilco, the new voice chat will be included in a new version of DirectX, Microsoft's applications programming interface for 3D games.
Microsoft, which has its own Web services such as Bing search and Skype video chat, also is conducting such trials in Africa.
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