Comment 6 for bug 657453

What versions do you mean by "recent versions of Ubuntu"? The audio/video support for MSN isn't very promising at the moment: According to http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Protocols%20Support and the aMSN blog referred in Empathy's FAQ (link in comment 2), MS has removed the necessary servers for MSN audio/video chat. A newer blog post at http://www.amsn-project.net/blog/2010/12/amsn-0-98-4-is-out/ mentions that the support will arrive with aMSN 0.99.