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O.P. Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
Anyone know of any alternatives to Windows Live Messenger?
and has nice GUI?

aMsn has quite a bad GUI in my opinion.
08-04-2007 01:43 PM
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
http://pidgin.im/pidgin/home/
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08-04-2007 03:19 PM
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/)

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08-04-2007 03:41 PM
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
My personal favourite: http://iloveim.com  :grin:
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08-04-2007 06:17 PM
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
Maybe you should try Kopete if you have KDE as desktop environment. 
It's already installed in KDE.
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
i dont like kopete, its not very customizable, i would have to go with pidgin/[old]gaim, or amsn, but you're not liking that. still, i think you should wait until the next release or two before you really judge amsn, i find it really good, end they may not have the best looking GUI, AFAIK they're planning on making it better looking, and some of the skins are rather good too. not knock it! :P the only bad things are that it's a bit of a resource hog, and its sometimes dodgy if you update by svn, but thats it.

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08-05-2007 08:48 AM
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
Pidgin is well coded and I believe very modern. I would recommend that, but Trillian Astra (not yet released) looks like the best alternative :).
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
WLM8.5 beta? that looks very sexy.
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WLM8.5 beta? that looks very sexy.
WLM 8.5 is still Windows Live Messenger, he wanted an alternative to WLM.
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RE: Alternatives to Windows Live Messenger
I just found something http://www.kmess.org/
It's for KDE I believe.
08-07-2007 07:32 PM
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