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Escargot

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Escargot is a custom-written server built to recreate the older MSN Messenger server architecture, used back when Microsoft still had the servers running. The code to recreate the servers works for versions of MSN up to 8.

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  • Free • Proprietary

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  • Windows
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  • Developed by

    Unknown

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Escargot was added to AlternativeTo by SebiTcr on May 11, 2020 and this page was last updated May 16, 2025.
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What is Escargot?

Escargot is a custom-written server built to recreate the older MSN Messenger server architecture, used back when Microsoft still had the servers running. The code to recreate the servers works for versions of MSN up to 8.5, but (as of writing) support for WLM 2009 is not out yet but is close to being wrapped up and released to the public, and 2011/2012 support hasn't been started on yet, although we anticipate that will be a beast to support. Used to be open source, but the source available on GitLab is deprecated and hasn't been updated since 2021.

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