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AOL Locks Out Competing Chat Services
Instant Messenger is no longer accessible via MSN, Yahoo.
"We don't want to chat," appears to be the latest instant message America Online is sending to Microsoft and Yahoo. Evidently, Microsoft's MSN portal and Yahoo are off AOL's buddies list when it comes to AOL's enormously popular Instant Messenger service.
Both Yahoo and MSN this week released versions of their instant messenger programs that could interact with the estimated 25 million users of AOL Instant Messenger. Now Yahoo has confirmed that users of its beta Yahoo Messenger program, released Thursday, can no longer chat with AIM users. Microsoft's day-old MSN Messenger also has been locked out of AIM, according Microsoft representatives.
AOL changed its instant messaging protocol early Friday morning so that MSN and Yahoo Messenger users couldn't access AIM.
AOL spokesperson Ann Brackbill is adamant that AOL considered MSN's and Yahoo's access to AIM a breach of security and privacy akin to hacking.
As for AOL's support for open standards for instant messaging, Brackbill says, "Unauthorized access to our network is completely different from agreeing on open standards."
Brackbill says AOL hasn't ruled out taking legal action against Microsoft and Yahoo.
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