MSN, Yahoo and AOL Declare War on Google Talk
Drunkenbatman at the Drunken Blog has an interesting post on how MSN, Yahoo and AOL will respond to the launch of Google Talk. He argues (drawing on sources that they wont reveal) that the response will be a unified one!
‘Within the last few weeks, there appears to have been a meeting between MSN, Yahoo and AOL. They’d all been talking amongst themselves — and sparsely with each other — about how to respond to Google, but were still trying to make up their minds.
This meeting made it official: It’s three against one, indirectly.
Specifically, sometime in the near future, all three services are going to be releasing new versions of their software and “Sunsetting” all older versions of their Windows clients. From what I can tell, Microsoft is spearheading the initiative, but the other two are going to follow.
Generally, each service has its own protocols and they do well to keep older versions in mind when they release a new client, because they want as many people on the network as possible. However, that’s going to be going away — you’ll use the new client, or you won’t chat on their networks.’
Looks like there’s going to be an IM fight!
{Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, MSN Messenger}
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