Greetings Stoo,
It still starts there. There's all sorts of things Messenger now connects to as well as
being handed off to various servers.
A high level overview of some of these are listed at the bottom of this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927847
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"Stoo" <> wrote in message
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> hi all
>
> what servers does messenger 2009 use to log in / run
>
> eg. older version used to go through messenger.hotmail.com
>
> does anyone know the new targets?