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To: Ian Davidson who wrote (27171)	7/23/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (1) of 74651

This idea to focus on making MSN Messenger able to speak in lots of formats including AOLs is a very good one. Embrace and extend, baby. ---------- "In a move announced separately, Microsoft Thursday fired a new shot at rival America Online Inc. with a long-awaited Internet instant-messaging service. AOL makes an extremely popular version of this service, which allows users to send each other messages that pop up on their computer screens. But the new Microsoft service allows users who are also AOL customers to send pop-up notes to users of both services; AOL users now can only send messages to each other." "Microsoft's new MSN Messenger Service is designed to complement AOL's service, as well as Microsoft's popular Outlook software and its free e-mail service known as Hotmail. The new Microsoft service relies on a Hotmail account and a free piece of software that users download from the company's Web site. AOL messaging users who download that software are asked to enter their screen name and password, and asked if they want to import their existing "buddy list" of AOL users with whom they correspond. After that process, those users may use Microsoft's software to send instant messages to other AOL users or to people who use only the Microsoft service. Ann Brackbill, an AOL spokeswoman, said the Microsoft service raises some "serious" privacy and security issues. "They are violating the cardinal rule of the Internet by asking users for their screen names and passwords,"she said, arguing that Microsoft's use of AOL's naming system is "akin to hacking."

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