Windows Live Hotmail contacts in Google Talk or Gmail Chat?

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Directly from Gmail's integrated chat feature, is it possible to chat with Windows Live Hotmail contacts? I already added them, of course, but they don't show up in the chat thing.

I googled it and some old stuff about a Jabber client came up, but it is kind of outdated.

Any help is appreciated.

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