Windows Live Messenger is Microsoft's product, trying to connect and share instantly on the world's most popular IM network. There are 2 offical messengers:

1. Windows Live Messenger (Windows only, pre-installed with Windows)
2. Web Messenger (Also Windows only, works for modern browsers)

Here is a pure JavaScript copy of MSN Live Messenger on Google Talk Client from non-Google communities. It is first implemented in Java language using Eclipse SWT and JML. Then the client is converted to JavaScript with servlet supports. And then it's deployed on a Tomcat server. As Java being platform-independent, and JavaScript is browser-independent, this Google Talk client runs in any modern browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer (IE), on Windows, Linux, Mac and others OS platforms. For more details or architectural information, please visit blog "Inside Java2Script".

We strongly recomend you visit this page by Google Chrome, Firefox 3.0+, Opera 9.0+ or Safari 3.1+.

Update: blog.izuz.net talks about web IM and you can report bugs or make feature requests there.

Zhou Renjian ( zhourenjian at gmail dot com ) @ Nov 5, 2008

Related links:

• Meebo Another well known online instant communications provider
• j2s.sourceforge.net Java2Script official website
• izuz.net Upcoming cross online instant messenger for gtalk, msnlive and others