Buried within this recent slashdot thread on MS’s move to license access to MSN Messenger users for non-MS Messenger clients came reference to this multi-protocol Windows-based IM client that was new to me (I’m a real IM newbie, if you couldn’t tell).
Not only does it support messaging to all these various other clients, it apparently has an RSS plug-in too so you can read your feeds in it! This is probably not news to regular IM users, as apparently the free version has something like 11 million downloads to date. But having just installed 3 different IM clients last Friday, I must say I am very attracted by its potential (and thus concerned about what the MS announcement might mean for it, but that’s another story). – SWL