Trillian users have joined together to support the start-up by sending in donations to ensure additional updates. MSN continues to work with the IETF and the rest of the industry to make that happen so that consumers can communicate openly and freely with friends and family no matter what instant messaging service they use." "As we've said all along, we believe that the ultimate benefit for consumers is a standard for instant messaging/interoperability among all IM products. Such talk has sparked a heated debate in the industry, with critics accusing AOL of monopolizing a system that should be open.Ī Microsoft spokesperson assured BetaNews they had no plans to follow in AOL's footsteps. And perhaps its biggest draw, Trillian sports no advertising or nag screens.ĪOL defends its right to block Trillian, calling the software a hack that endangers the security of AIM. Constant updates have made the client more appealing than AOL's, as AIM has changed little in the past three years. Using a single window, Trillian can communicate with ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, IRC and until this week - AOL Instant Messenger. Trillian has gained notoriety among IM users due to its simple interface and customization features. Odigo in July 2000 formed IMUnified, a coalition designed to work towards instant messaging interoperability, and continues to tout AOL compatibility in its client. Microsoft eventually gave in and focused on improving MSN Messenger, which has now begun to eat away at AOL's controlling market share.
Such resistance to outsiders is nothing new to AOL, which played similar games with Microsoft in 1999 and again with Odigo in 2000. The standoff began last week and Cerulean Studios - developer of Trillian - continues to issue updates immediately bypassing each new block. Trillian does not provide its own messaging platform, but instead combines the most popular services into a single program and eliminates the need to run multiple clients. UPDATED Adding yet another chapter to the seemingly endless battle over instant messaging, AOL has begun blocking Trillian users from accessing its servers, effectively cutting off communication between the independent client and AOL's ad-laden software.
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