I have not gotten around to installing pidgin on Vista yet, been really busy. Lucky I'm even having some free time this evening. On windows I run Trillian, have since it came out, never any issues with it, and I need a multi-IM client for work and personal - but at the same time. Pidgin, I think, allows only one user per IM client, and I need more than one - so I cant use it, but I did use it on windows for an IRC deal afew weeks ago, that part of it worked fine.

I use yahoo all the time i think they are one of the first so majority of internet users do use it. But i kinda miss the old days when ym was still not too restricted.

How is it restricted now? Just curious...

i am using pidgin on vista right now and it is simply amazing. Trillian takes up a lot more memory than pidgin. If i remember correctly trillian takes a bit long to load. it has that laggy splash screen.

Haven't heard of Pidgen I used Trillian at one time but don't use it anymore. I lots of time use Meebo.

pidgin was previously known as GAIM, pretty popular open source messenger

I think i have heard of that but haven't personally used it.

true, it's very light on memory...

http://www.pidgin.im/