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Nowadays you have a wide variety of products from which you can choose. But the bottom line is that you need to follow the flow. There are of those software you have to pick by obligation. Opera is my default and preferred browser. But for instant messaging it seems I cannot select the program I love. I have been following Skype since it's early beginings and I've talked about this marvel a few times. The problem is that my friends aren't following! And I believe that it is ok, because not everyone can see the same advantages that I see. I've tested the new Windows Live Messenger and the new Skype 2. The features can reach a match but I still believe that Skype has genuine features and deserves to be respected. So just like ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, Jabber or other instant message protocol they all deserve to live and you should stick to the ones that will let you stay in touch with your friends. If only we had a unified protocol that would share all features seamlessly. I was a big fan of Trillan and Gaim that let me connect to all my different accounts at once, but it was obvious that most my friends (in fact all of them, moved to MSN)

So here is a sneak-peak of the next messenger version and of skype 2.