Trillian is free and bundled with good features too, I use it on my home computer and have configured it for use at school. Gaim is open source and misses some of these bells and perhaps deeper integration with the different IM services. It seems to be lighter on system resources and removed quite cleanly. Of course, as an Open Source project .. Gaim will allways be free and is also available for all Linux and Macintosh users.
I did notice a missing feature to "startup on login" and "minimise to task bar" on closure. I had a quick hack and it would be interesting to see if I could configure it to run off a USB Key as it keeps very little info in the registry.
I'm running GAIM too. I like the fact that I can have MSN ICQ yahoo and IRC all in the one app. handy. Coming from ICQ and mac land I don't miss the bells and whistles, because they either weren't there, or were riddled with bugs.
But gaim certainly seems to do the trick for me now.
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I did notice a missing feature to "startup on login" and "minimise to task bar" on closure. I had a quick hack and it would be interesting to see if I could configure it to run off a USB Key as it keeps very little info in the registry.
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But gaim certainly seems to do the trick for me now.
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