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Messenger woes

02 September 2003

If you use messenger you may have noticed that Microsoft have started sending out the following notification at startup: ".NET Messenger Service Staff: You are running a version of messenger that requires an immediate security update. Please visit http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Upgrades.aspx to complete the update."

If, like me, you don't use messenger (I use Trillian on Windows and KMess on Linux) this is bad news. On 15th October Microsoft will block all non-upgraded (i.e. non-Microsoft only) users leaving Linux users in the dark and Trillian users somewhat miffed. I'm sure patches will ultimately arrive - but until then we're a bit goosed.

Maybe it's time I switched to ICQ?

Rant over.

roy

Hello. My name is Roy. I live in rural Oxfordshire.

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