06-22-2006, 11:29 PM
Are you just going to be using the software for Instant Messaging? or do you require any of the extra features that many of the IM programs come with now such as Voice Chat or Video Chat? If you plan to Voice Chat that i've found Trillian to be unstable.
If you just want to use it for IMs than I don't know of any glaring issues with any of the major programs. I would stay away from Yahoo Messenger because they like to add a lot of extra software with their installs. AIM has some of those issues but not so much anymore, and the pop-up webpage with AIM start-up can be disabled now so that isn't an issue. AIM does have the problem of ads which normally are ignorable but on occasion you will get an annoying expanding ad that keeps popping out or an ad with sound. :angry:
i've mostly used AIM because it has had the most successful Voice Chat out of the software that i've used. Although i'm thinking of checking out the new Windows live messenger
If you just want to use it for IMs than I don't know of any glaring issues with any of the major programs. I would stay away from Yahoo Messenger because they like to add a lot of extra software with their installs. AIM has some of those issues but not so much anymore, and the pop-up webpage with AIM start-up can be disabled now so that isn't an issue. AIM does have the problem of ads which normally are ignorable but on occasion you will get an annoying expanding ad that keeps popping out or an ad with sound. :angry:
i've mostly used AIM because it has had the most successful Voice Chat out of the software that i've used. Although i'm thinking of checking out the new Windows live messenger