On 15 sep. 2011, at 00:05, Thijs Alkemade wrote:

> As you might have seen already: 
> http://xmpp.org/2011/09/microsoft-adds-xmpp-support-to-windows-live-apis/
> 
> With some hard-coded hackery to fake the custom authentication I've managed 
> to sign in. Although I don't know exactly how Facebook's auth works, it seems 
> pretty similar to me (open a webview with an URL, get a token and use that to 
> sign in).
> 
> From the little bit of testing I did, it appears this works: sending 
> messages, some avatars, status messages, etc (though it seems display name 
> and real name are swapped).
> And this doesn't: file transfers, federation.
> 
> So yeah, it seems to be almost as good as libpurple's msn support as of 
> recently. ;)
> 
> Thijs

Just noticed: adding contacts doesn't work (gives a jid-malformed, probably 
because they translate email addresses into their own random JIDs) and neither 
does moving a contact from one group to another (gives a 
feature-not-implemented error).

So, pretty similar to Facebook in that regard...

Thijs

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