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MSN Messenger or Trillian?

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  1. 1. MSN Messenger or Trillian?

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NeoXY

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well.....Trillian is a universial messenger....do you have people on other IM networks that you would like to talk to?...like AIM, Yahoo and such?...if so, than go for trillian. If you use the MSN service only...then there is no point in going over to trillian...

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NeoXY

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Me too. Also, I am adding some questions with yours mate :)

Is it fast?

What about resource usage?

UI?

Free?

Anything else... ? :p

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if you are talking about trillian....yes...trillian is very fast, and use about the same resource as MSN messenger. They offer a Free version but it doesn't support Video and Audio chat and the UI looks nice...plus you can donlwoad extra skins for your Trillian..:)

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NeoXY

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So, in a few words, use trillian and leave MSN Messenger installed in case you want to use Audio and Video, am I right?  :p

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LMAO...sure why not...but actually...I think...THINK that the free trillian do support Audio...just not Video, but don't quote me for it....

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Daninku

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LMAO...sure why not...but actually...I think...THINK that the free trillian do support Audio...just not Video, but don't quote me for it....

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Hehe, thanks for that. The most worying part is about the power usage, since my pc is ... :whistle: ... crap lol with that RAM. That's why I asked that immediately ;) Thanks :) I am going to try Trillian :)

By the way, there's also something called Miranda?! Is that the same as Triallina or what?

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As much as I like Trillian, if you're looking for something free, fast and light on resources don't overlook Miranda (http://www.miranda-im.org/). I've recently given it another try and I'm loving it. It can be as clean and as simple as you wan't or you can make it look as good as you want. Also, all of the plugins and themes are free unlike Trillian!

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NeoXY

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Hehe, thanks for that. The most worying part is about the power usage, since my pc is ...  :whistle:  ... crap lol with that RAM. That's why I asked that immediately  ;)  Thanks :) I am going to try Trillian :)

By the way, there's also something called Miranda?! Is that the same as Triallina or what?

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yes...there is something called Miranda, it's also a universial messenger and is the best one in my opinion (I use Miranda). It is VERY light on the resource and if you set it up right, it looks amazing..however...it takes some time to get use to the interface and also setting it up...but if you have the time, look up some threads on Neowin (there are plenty) and set it up yourself...you won't regred it...:)

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Onizuka

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I'm asking about trillian, cause I'm a little disapointed with MSN 7. I think they have much things that are useless and it's pretty heavy application.

I know that there're patchs to improve msn, but... it's still msn. At least could you recommend alternatives to MSN? good ones! :p

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hotwire

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i use trillian all the time

msn messenger is crap

because the beta version and how they forced u to upgrade from lower version to 6.2 or some v higher because of security biz

i got a small laptop which is like for messengin, only got 333mhz of cpu and it runs laggy as hell using the upgraded msn

and trillian runs pretty smooth on it

therefore msn definately requires more resource, cpu and etc than trillian

also this is a free version of trillian

therefore there is an advantage

mikrosoft doesn't make good program anyways.... well know in the security field..

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