That's because it's all 'Live Messenger' and 'Live Mail' now. Although I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft got sued under the trade descriptions act....
There are better messenger services out there, it's just that not many people use them just yet. There are the 'big four' but each have their flaws of over usage, which sacrifices the speed of their servers. But then if we all used differet messenger services, we'd have a hell of a job contacting people on other messengers.
mmm, I'm a Mac user and that sometimes limits to me.
Also, installing Azurus didn't work for me :/
I know there are decent messengers, but the problem is I just need to be where other people are. Like some people are only on MSN.
Don't you just hate that you can only use the iSight on iChat? You can use it on aMSN, but it doesn't always work, because a mac will only change setting if you tell it to. A PC would configure the best settings and change them accordingly.
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