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Software review :

Pidgin is a multi protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin can work with almost all popular chat clients like Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, AIM, MSN, SIMPLE, IRC, Bonjour, Google Talk, MySpaceIM, XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, QQ, Sametime, SILC and Zephyr. Pidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more. This means you are free to use it and to modify it, but if you distribute your modifications you must distribute the modified source code as well.

Editor's review :

Pidgin is a similar program ( regarding his features and options ) with Trillian. Many people use this multi protocol chat software as an alternative to other similar programs. This programs runs great on Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. Basically you can chat using Pidgin with your best friend, meet new people on AIM, ICQ and use Yahoo! Messenger to communicate with your sister. So you can use this program to chat with a lot of people on the same time using different chat applications and networks or you can run mIRC, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger separately which will definetely use a lot of system resources. This new version of Pidgin comes with a redesigned interface and with new improvements and bug fixes. It is far from being a complete chat software, for example this is not the best solution for you if what you want is VoIP ( Voice over IP or IP telephony ) or video conferencing. This chat software doesn't support them yet. There are some bugs but they are going to be fixed with every new version of Pidgin. This multi protocol Instant Messaging client received many awards and it's preffered by a lot of people. Many positive reviews but has a lot of other negative reviews most of them coming from inexperienced users. In conclusion, if you are looking for a multi protocol Instant Messaging client for Windows, download Pidgin and try it. It's free to use it, has no limitations, other than a few technical ones and it's an open source software.

Other notes :

At the Windows tests, Pidgin runs great on Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP. Future versions of will work great with Microsoft Windows Vista. There are no technical issues, sure there are still a lot of improvements and bug fixes that waits to be fixed. Inexperienced users will encounter technical issues and they will tend to underevaluate this free multi protocol Instant Messaging client. If you are going to use Pidgin you should know that the risks for using any chat applications that allows you to transfer files, access links on other websites is very high. This risk is a real one in case that you don't have an antivirus installed or any other form of protection. If you didn't used such forms of protection like antiviruses, firewalls or anti-spyware before and you are using the Internet there are 99 % chances or more to already have your computer infected with a form of malware.