Microsoft had earlier said that "MSN instant messaging (IM) service will lock out users of third-party software that uses the service as well as users of older versions of Microsoft's own Messenger client"- infoworld.com To this GAIM has responded. Gaim has responded to this saying "MS has decided that everyone should upgrade to MSN version 5.0 or higher. MSN v5 is the first to use their MSN Protocol v8, which is the first to use SSL for login. Now, we know how to login over this. This is not hard, and we will be supporting MSNP9, the latest version of the protocol, soon." here here News-Source :- /.