Maybe, just maybe… the deep chill about preventing competitors from using one’s instant messaging protocol have somewhat melted. AOL, Yahoo, and MSN all team up to make interoptable MS’ enterprise IM product. Just around the corner are our desktop clients.

Of course, my Trillian will be worthless. Then again, I paid my dues a couple years ago. I expected then by now for this to have been solved. It hasn’t. Ick.