oh ffs! I don't want Skype running 24/7.

I've been using pidgin since they updated WLM with all that social junk

^^ I'll check that out. I like it! No **** to view, awesome :thumbup:

oh ffs! I don't want Skype running 24/7.

This. It doesn't even have an option to be hidden ATM.

Good move. @Neo Cyrus, what do you mean by no option to hide?

I mean it will remain in the task bar. No option to become one of those mini icons in the right.

^^ I'll check that out. I like it! No **** to view, awesome :thumbup:

Trillian is good as well, I'ved used it for a few years, cross platform and supports loads of IM's in one client. I've not signed into WLM for a year or two now though, everyone I know switched to FB chat.

Good, it's had it's moment in the sun, time to retire it.

FB messenger app does a better job :P

when i want to chat with someone important, WLM is the app to go, you can play games with them, share photos/videos in real time, custom emoticons and gifs avatars etc, skype is just a voIP bs with the most ugly/idiotized UI i've ever seen, looks like something for a 3yo kid, sigh' ms should rethink it, why not integrate skype into msn instead? what offers skype that msn doesnt? at first people came at me asking me if i had a skype account, why?, they said videocalls... oh really? im making video calls since what? 2004? with msn of course, and now this bs so i tried it and woaah it was a voIP client with free videocalls, lame IM capabilities, so.. how on earth they want us civilized people to use this lame IM client instead of what im using since i was a kid playing flash games? well M$, what makes you think i want every account of mine merged into one big **** that doesnt necessarily looks how i want it to look, if i wanted to do that, there is ebuddy and lots of apps that supports tons of IM services