Moving to OCS
As I have played with the Windows Live Agent (WLA) it has seemed that it had a limited shelf life with Microsoft. With Office Communication Server R2 coming down the line in Q1 '09 with it's support of IM bots I figured the handwriting was on the wall for WLA. Indeed, the handwriting is now on the blog as the following post states - Windows Live Agent is being retired.
Now I am trying to get into the OCS R2 beta program (Metro) so I can continue what I have been working on related to an IM bot but I'm afraid I may be in no mans land as it's too close to the release of OCS R2 and I don't really want to invest more time in Windows Live Agent.