I did some additional research on this and found the following "very brief"
comment by Microsoft. I imagine there comment "some innovative features" is
really equivalent to proprietary extensions that will not be part of the SIMPLE protocol?
Microsoft "innovating" again :)
http://www.microsoft.com/office/livecomm/prodinfo/faq.mspx#XSLTfaqSection12…
Q. Can clients developed by companies other than Microsoft interoperate with Live
Communications Server 2003?
A. In general, interoperability is limited to the Microsoft Windows® Messenger 5.0 client
or applications built on top of V1.2 RTC Client application programming interfaces (APIs).
Microsoft has developed some innovative features in the real-time communications area.
Several extensions made by Microsoft that use the SIMPLE protocol are not yet implemented
by other companies.