MSN Messenger opened to developers

Google, Amazon Alexa, Yahoo, Gizmo project, to tell a few. Web 2.0 to regroup them. No online services could nowadays make a descent name on the Net without providing an exhaustive toolkit for developers, usually called the software development kit or SDK.

Windows Live Messenger, the new name for MSN messenger, also complies for this empirical law, gives documentation, libraries of functions, code samples, available here for free. But don’t expect to see recoded MSN messenger clones to appear, the toolkit allows some tweaks but not a complete makeover. And of course, it still is a complete close source software.

Maybe some genius kiddo would code some new games for the MSN messenger, or simply a nifty plugin to bring the IM into mobile phones, as QuickIM, a Java application for mobile which cost $10.

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Apr 17, 2006 | By Nuno

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