Well statistics show that AIM and ICQ are the most popular Instant Messagers on the net right now. Although with the release of MSN Messenger 5.0 some months ago it started rising up and with the release of 6.0 and 6.1 MSN Messenger was becoming more and more popular... Now I bet that this step by microsoft, msn's popularity is gonna drop becuase you would have to pay to get you msn messenger while other IMs are for free. Hasn't anybody thought about that ??? So I'm afraid I don't agree with Patchou !!!
Take this for instance: If people are not going to read the newspaper from behind my shoulder, they are going to read over someone else's. Therefore MSN Messenger users will drop and instead of developing MSN Messenger will fade slowly.
What's the solution? I don't know !