What non-Microsoft software recognizes the Panasonic SDR-S150 as a webcam?

When connected to the PC in "record" mode, the SDR-S150 is detected by XP as a "USB Video Device" as well as a "USB Audio Device"... mention is also made of webcam in the driver installation status bubbles.

When running software like Skype, however, the camera is not detected as a valid video device; fair enough, the manual says that only MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger are compatible with this camera.

Did Microsoft make a shady deal with Panasonic? Why doesn't the webcam work in general? Has someone made a driver/utility that fixes it?

(A guy called "Sektionschef" made a video-download/convert utility that corrects aspect ratio and converts to MPEG-2, so there *are* people out there working on this kind of stuff).

Microsoft and Panasonic are partnered, now. Most of the panasonic webcams are only able to work on Windows through MSN Messenger.

Hacked Google search and support forum searches yield no results for any other IM client that will recognize the SDR-S150. There is always a way, but I haven't found it... I'll keep looking, though.

I have found that the SDR S150 can be used as a microphone . for use with skype.