There are two choice to choose from when it comes to Instant Messengers. Two( Y!M or MSN) mainly because most of your friends on one and/or both of these mostly. A couple of weeks back, I got bored of Y!M for some unknown reasons, tried to work on MSN Network. And as we all know it, bloatware is the name usually coined with MSN Messengers and nothing seems to be more closer to reality. Even the Ver. 8 beta is just not for me. Mainly 2 reasons! The first reason is quite obvious and secondly its a nightmare with those working on a low resolutions. Even on 1024×768, the basic MSN windows takes a lotta space on screen, large buddy avatars in the contact list, the sidebar links - all consume a lotta space leaving with very little space to work around. Even in the conversation window, a few messages and the whole window gets filled up. So even a small brief talk with a friend requires vigorous scrolling to know where you started from. Lastly, even after 8 installments of MSN Messenger, you can only use the default 16 colors for your conversatio text. If you have to change the colors, you have to use third party tools. Cool isn’t it?
What do you do if you dont like it, obviously use some third party client. Started using GAIM on a regular basis, and for some strange reasons i get logged out every other hour, apparently for no reasons. Downloads run just fine, browsing gives no problem and in the middle of no where, GAIM just logs out. And this has been happening a lotta times to be just a coincidence. May be there would be a problem with my ISP, but earlier Yahoo used to run just fine! Why not the same with MSN?
This so freakin annoying to see those ‘ You have been disconnected from so and so servers at xx : xx : xx time’ in GAIM. I cant do anything but curse MSN for this. All cauz of their servers or whatever reason behind it. May be things are just leading for me to stop using MSN too.
