{"id":6656,"date":"2004-08-09T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/09\/messages.html"},"modified":"2004-08-09T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T20:38:30","slug":"messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/messages.html","title":{"rendered":"Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Les posts on <a title=\"Stupid Evil Bastard: Microsoft starts open beta of MSN Web Messenger.\" href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/microsoft_starts_open_beta_of_msn_web_messenger\/\">the new MSN Web-based Instant Messenger<\/a>, which is, indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/webmessenger.msn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">pretty keen-looking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started using MSN Messenger some months back, but now am using the Exchange-based Windows Messenger instead (since it can tie into the MSN network, and thus is only one window open).  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