Ledward, on Nov 2 2007, 06:06, said:
Several things to note, without revealing too much:
1. There is an internal MS WLM9 dogfood. Currently no-one outside Microsoft has access to any part of WLM9.
2. The Connect page for WLM8.1 is currently blank and makes no reference to WLM9.
3. The WLM9 team will try to ship a version that includes an API that allows cross-protocol communication, e.g. with AIM/Google Talk and ICQ. Currently, the Google Talk part is working.
4. The late 08/early 09 date is the (correct) projected shipping target.
3 is not quite true. The WLM team is playing around with cross-protocol communication, it has absolutely nothing to do with the API. Also they may not even put cross-protocol communication in WLM9/10, and it could be an internal-only thing just to see if it can be done.
Slimy, on Nov 2 2007, 15:17, said:
Not to mention that Neowin was the original site to begin with
http://www.neowin.ne...howtopic=597577