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It's not an "enhancement." It uses OAuth in a completely standard way. It was done to avoid people entering their Windows Live usernames and passwords all over
by hamidpalo 15y ago
It's not an "enhancement." It uses OAuth in a completely standard way. It was done to avoid people entering their Windows Live usernames and passwords all over the place, especially now considering how much can be tied to a WL account with Win 8.
I was part of the team that did this and we went to great lengths to make sure that we were in full compliance with the relevant RFCs.
- dreijerbit 15y agoWhat's your take on this, hamidpalo: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/messengerconnect/thread/69ac90cb-0680-4e2c-a370-7ef21a330b29 http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/messengerconne...
- untog 15y agoI think the Facebook example provided in that post is exactly what they are trying to avoid- people entering their usernames and passwords into random chat clients. After all, you have no idea what they do with them.
- Zash 15y agoAnd then they (Facebook) expect you to give them your mail- and other IM credentials. At least they do have DIGEST-MD5 auth, so you can still login with most normal XMPP clients.