Shoutbox

yes, it's only about third party software, Microsoft has no plan to ask money for the main MSN Messenger service, don't worry. What I meant in my article was that Messenger costs Microsoft a lot of money to operate and the only way for them to get something back if is you use their client (MSN Messenger) as it displays all kinds of advertisement amd services. If you use a third party client, they have no more benefit so they have to find a way not to lose money ot, at least, a way to control what's going on on their network (what they are going to charge companies like Trillian really doesn't reflect their cost).