Now that Windows Live Messenger is defunct, what is the best live text message service?
I won’t use Skype, I dislike it. Leave that out of your answers, please.
I’m looking for a text based live messenger that can cross platforms between android based phones and pc. It doesn’t have to have voice or video capability. It just has to be reliable and easy to use for international contacts.
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Windows Live Messenger is defunct???
(Honestly, I did not even know it existed. Perhaps that was part of the problem).
I ditched Windows Live as soon as I learned that it would be integrated into Skype. I have no interest in using Skype. I switched over to Yahoo, but I’m not necessarily happy about that. The android application for it is at least reliable and relatively aesthetically pleasing (moreso than Windows Live ever was to me.)
so @muppetish We have to go old-school to get just reliable text messaging? AIM or Yahoo?
Google talk is really sketchy.
AIM? Old-school? Puh-leeze! IRC predates those by a decade!
IRC is mature, robust, available from many clients (my favorite being Pidgin), or as a web page (Mibbit, for one), or as a plug-in for Firefox (Chatzilla), and a few other ways. You want IRC for Android? IRC doesnt’ care what platform you run it on! Hell, you go to Mibbit, and you can get on IRC from anything with a web browser!
As for reliability ,it is probably the most reliable of the networks. There are advantages to being around the block a few times and not trying to cram every feature under the sun in.
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