An alternative to MSN messenger?

tomanders91 · 11 Feb 2007 at 19:15

Can anyone reccomend an Alternative to MSN messenger that will work in Vista that will allow me to use my current @msn email address and all my contacts?

Ive heard AIM is pretty good.

thanks

Burnsy2023 · 11 Feb 2007 at 19:21

Try gaim, it can use all of the major IM networks or Trillain.

Burnsy

Biscuity · 11 Feb 2007 at 19:35

I'd second Trillian. There's currently version 3.1 & a brand new re-write called Trillian Astra in the pipeline.

Ad & spyware free too!

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Jabbs · 11 Feb 2007 at 20:11

I use one called Amsn currently on vista works a treat.

WolfR1der · 11 Feb 2007 at 21:38

Biscuity said:
I'd second Trillian. There's currently version 3.1 & a brand new re-write called Trillian Astra in the pipeline.

Ad & spyware free too!

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Although it's getting old now, and isn't updated for the latest msn features (has trouble accepting new contacts, file transfers and keeping up to date with contact info) it beats even Live Messenger for me.

Astra should be even better, can't wait

Vegetarian · 12 Feb 2007 at 00:21

You can use Yahoo messanger to chat to people on MSN now!

fumbles · 12 Feb 2007 at 00:56

Big fan of the free and open source gaim, where you can have all your contacts from like 12 messenger programmes in the one.

Trillian is shocking, well the last time I used it at least. Is it still ugly?

Rebelius · 12 Feb 2007 at 03:29

Gaim for me. but I use MSN in vista - gaim in gentoo.

MarcLister · 12 Feb 2007 at 08:57

http://www.miranda-im.org/ Quite basic to start with but can be customised with loads of plugins.

z0mbi3 · 12 Feb 2007 at 09:00

Another vote for Gaim.

hendrix · 12 Feb 2007 at 10:33

z0mbi3 said:
Another vote for Gaim.

z0mbi3 · 12 Feb 2007 at 11:47

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=gaim&svnum=10&hl=en&safe=off&start=20&sa=N&ndsp=20

Mobius 1 · 12 Feb 2007 at 11:54

MarcLister said:
http://www.miranda-im.org/ Quite basic to start with but can be customised with loads of plugins.

agreed, deffo the best. uses hardly any RAM too.

Tom84 · 12 Feb 2007 at 12:13

-Tauren- said:
agreed, deffo the best. uses hardly any RAM too.

Thirded

Tried this before i did a fresh install and loved using it, keep meaning to reinstall it. But as Tauren said it aint resource hungry and is totally customizable to fit with your desktop theme (which is the type of thing that i like

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z0mbi3 · 12 Feb 2007 at 12:16

pfftttt

I'm telling you guys it's all about Gaim.

edit:

Although I would agree with Miranda for portability, simply 'cause I haven't used Gaim for that purpose.

Azraeluk · 12 Feb 2007 at 12:46

outside vote for meebo.com

Very handy webbased messenger program, works on anything and just have it in tab in IE7 or Firefox

Deception · 12 Feb 2007 at 15:21

z0mbi3 said:
pfftttt

I'm telling you guys it's all about Gaim.

edit:

Although I would agree with Miranda for portability, simply 'cause I haven't used Gaim for that purpose.

Ive got MSN live, but it seems Gaim might be the best choice for me. Thanks!

Now to remember all my passwords... :eek:

Mobius 1 · 12 Feb 2007 at 15:36

Tom84 said:
Thirded

Tried this before i did a fresh install and loved using it, keep meaning to reinstall it. But as Tauren said it aint resource hungry and is totally customizable to fit with your desktop theme (which is the type of thing that i like )

there is a nice theme that goes really well with vista atm, i keep meaing to download miranda again. hate using standard msn

Rebelius · 12 Feb 2007 at 16:00

-Tauren- said:
agreed, deffo the best. uses hardly any RAM too.

is it just me or does everyone here seem to have C2Ds with 2GB+ of ram and still worry about resources used by simple things like an IM client?

If A looks and feels better than B, who cares if A uses 150k more ram than B?

Greenlizard0 · 12 Feb 2007 at 16:21

I'm looking to use an all in one program, but I can't find anything that allows me to close down skype, msn messenger, google talk completely yet have my accounts open.