Support for Jabber?

Does anyone know if there are any plans to open up Messenger to connect to jabber servers? I know it's not a typical move for MSFT, but the fact that I could centrally control and manage the Messenger client better than any other third-party app would make it very useful if my org decided to go that direction...

TIA,
BM
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