> Maybe even Microsoft or Yahoo would switch and it would pressure others creating a cascade. Microsoft actually made XMPP federation a big deal with Lync Ser

> Maybe even Microsoft or Yahoo would switch and it would pressure others creating a cascade. Microsoft actually made XMPP federation a big deal with Lync Server 2013, there used to be an entire server role that needed to be installed for federation but now it's just part of the edge server role as an optional feature. Even Microsoft sees federation as being important, too bad Google doesn't.