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Yawn!

Finally, an IM service done the right way for Winblows. Now I have iChat for Mac and Google Talk for Windblows. WIN WIN!!!

*yay*

Just couldn't resist sneaking a Microsoft ad in there, couldja, Paul?

I was enthusiastic about this new Google IM client, then I tried to sign in and saw it wanted me to have a GMail account? Looks like I'll be sticking with MSN/AIM/ICQ.

What the hell is with these ads that don't go away and keep playing videos while i'm trying to read the article?!?

Haha, the M$ fanbois are so worried. Yet another Google product set to crush Microsoft. And with Intel jumping ship for Apple, you guys are on a sinking Titanic. See you in line for an Intel-based Mac next year. Windows--for playing videogames in your admin account while anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and registry cleaner software runs in your system tray. Macs--for getting real work done.

Looks like Paul is getting worried. As well he should be. Microsoft is fading out. 2005 is the beginning of the end and will be remembered as such.

"What the hell is with these ads that don't go away and keep playing videos while i'm trying to read the article?!?" It's typical of anything Microsoft to force ads down your throat. Microsoft's spam guy actually spoke out against anti-spam legislation in New Zealand and called spam an "amazing vehicle of email marketing." And this is the company making your operating system and office software. No wonder their sales are down.

"Finally, an IM service done the right way for Winblows. Now I have iChat for Mac and Google Talk for Windblows." And because Google Talk is based on open standards, unlike Microsoft who hates open standards, iChat users can talk to Google Talk users! MSN Messenger is for kids under 20 with all those smileys and winks. Microsoft forced it down everyone's throats by making it start up automatically in Windows XP, sucking up resources, and making it unremovable from the system, which was fixable with a simple registry tweak. And you M$ fanbois forever defend this behavior. Simply amazing.

Have any of you actually seen Google Talk yet? It's crap. Yahoo Messenger is MSN Messenger's main threat at the moment.

iPods now hold the entire Amazon US top ten sales slots and 12 of the top 20 computers sold through Amazon US are Macs. www.apple.com/switch

"Windows - For getting real work done, such as SQL, Exchange, developement tools, ubiquitous office suite apps, accounting software needed to run businesses, print services, terminal services" SQL Server and Exchange suck and are riddled with security holes every month. OS X runs industrial-grade UNIX software that powers the Internet. www.army.mil runs off OS X Server because they got hacked running Windows NT. "Macs - For playing with pretty pictures and the newest photoshop plugins" So you're saying Windows can't handle Photoshop? ROFL. Have fun in your admin account another two years running Ad-aware and Norton.

My favorite feature of Windows is "Winrot," which is where the system actually slows down after six months, requiring a complete reinstall to get to normal speed again. No other OS has this innovative feature that Microsoft pioneered. Thank you, Microsoft.

I've been using Trillian for 2 years now and I'll never go back to the MSN Messengers or ICQs, etc. Trillian and the additional plugins it comes with has been a great tool for me and I'd certainly recommend it for those who require multiple accounts (I use two MSNs, one for business and one for personal) or have buddies on different IM services.

"My favorite feature of Windows is "Winrot," which is where the system actually slows down after six months," - HAHAHA!!! Yet the Miro$oft fanatics claim XP never crashes!!! Well, it sure does slow down to a crawl after six months due to WinRot, thats why I switched to Apple! With its rock-solid UNIX foundation OS X never slows down, no matter what you throw at it. In fact, when I upgraded to Tiger, my Mac actually performs better!!!

Hmm, I think I have deja vu. Oh wait, no I don't. It is just the same Mac kid in his parents basement that is p####d off that he has to go back to school in a week or two, that is posting the same comments in several different articles. And no, Mac fans, only in your dreams is MS failing. I don't think that any metric of a companies performance would come to the conclusion that MS is dying.

Hey, immature Apple guys - please consider growing up in the next few years or so. Your childish, off-topic, irrelevant posts are beyond ridiculous at this point, and add absolutely NOTHING to this website. Go somewhere else and enjoy your undeserved superiority complex, because we all know you're SO cool because of the OPERATING SYSTEM you use. If your opinion of yourself is based on a freaking OS, you are hopelessly pathetic, and a social life may be something to look into. P.S. - To the Apple cats who offer something valuable to the site, glad to have you here and keep posting.

"Yet another Google product set to crush Microsoft." They don't even have chatroom support yet. I was kinda dissapointed, but i'm not gonna trash their software, considering it's just a Beta. Hopefully they'll make weekly or bi-weekly updates to it with new features. It's nice to see Jabber, an open protocol, being used, instead of crap like OSCAR /w AIM. "I have iChat for Mac" Thanks to iChat, AIM users got to deal with annoying "@mac.com" screennames, which fueled the kiddies on that service even more. Thanks for nothing :P. <- Proud user of X-Chat, AIM Blows. "it wanted me to have a GMail account? Looks like I'll be sticking with MSN/AIM/ICQ." GMail is awesome. They don't attach ads to your outgoing email like Yahoo! does, and the interface is better than Hotmail (Apple Troll: A... windows user who doesn't like hotmail very much!? wtf?). Sure, they prevent you from sending out ZIP files, but you can always rename them to ZIPX or something else, or I believe you can using something OTHER than ZIP (rar, tar.gz, arj, lzh, sea [mac users should recognize that one I think] etc.) "Looks like Paul is getting worried. As well he should be." I don't know what kool-aid you're drinking, but I think you've had enough.

My favorite feature of OS X is the "brain rot" feature, which gradually reduces the cranial capacity of its users until they are only fit to post repetitive nonsense to Windows web sites that only serve to make people (like me) who are seriously considering buying a Mac think that Apple fans are actually fairly obnoxious bunch of elitist snobs and that I actually would rather spend my $500 for a Mac Mini on copies of Playboy, Pringles and Coke. Said brain rot feature gets quicker and more efficient over time. With Tiger, your brain degrades 50% by the time you have finished downloading the fix for the fix for the security vulnerabilities that came out last week. Once you've gone to the Apple Store, fought your way through all the people who have no interest in buying a Mac and only go there to use the Internet to check email, bought your idiotically-named "Mighty Mouse" and plugged it in, degradation is up to 65%. When you finish extending your bedroom to fit your 30" screen and find a decent pair of earplugs to filter out the whirr of the fans on your G5, degradation is up to 100%. And then what use is your life? Not much. Time to break out your bumper book of "Stupid Windows Insults" and cruise to Paul's website, where every five minutes, you press "Refresh" on the oddly-named "Safari" browser that Apple couldn't be bothered writing in its entirety (and instead used a load of open source stuff), just in case Paul posts another article. You're ready, hands poised over the "Y", "a", "w", "n" and "!" keys and ready to click on the one star rating. What a life! I am truly jealous. Seriously, kid, grow up. You aren't funny. You aren't smart. You're tiresome and unoriginal. Your "criticisms" of Windows are based on blatant falsehoods and outright lies. Enjoy your life working at Walmart stacking shelves. Good article Paul. Keep up the good work.

Yet the Miro$oft fanatics claim XP never crashes!!! --- there's no such thing as a MS fanatic. there are employees and rubes. that's it.

Enjoy your life working at Walmart stacking shelves. --- Do they stack shelves.. or stock them...

>>hey don't even have chatroom support yet. I was kinda dissapointed, but i'm not gonna trash their software, considering it's just a Beta. Hopefully they'll make weekly or bi-weekly updates to it with new features. It's nice to see Jabber, an open protocol, being used, instead of crap like OSCAR /w AIM. Keep in mind your little disclaimer yet. >>Thanks to iChat, AIM users got to deal with annoying "@mac.com" screennames, which fueled the kiddies on that service even more. Thanks for nothing :P. <- Proud user of X-Chat, AIM Blows. annoying "@mac.com" screennames. But Apple only has 2% of the market. The other 80% - 95%" of the market comes from the "@go f u c k yourself.com" market. >>GMail is awesome. They don't attach ads to your outgoing email like Yahoo! does, and the interface is better than Hotmail (Apple Troll: A... windows user who doesn't like hotmail very much!? Cool! Gmail, email, whatever mail. "Apple troll", or "mac user". Yeah thats it. We don't use any thing but Apple equipment and Apple OS 100% of the time. Yeah thats it. Heres a little hint: Microsoft is making it own hardware (f u c k you Michael Dell! Love Steve and Bill). The Microsoft PPC (x-box) will replace most of the boxen that the data entry monkeys (clerks) use today. Google is going to introduce a new os for all the older boxen in use today. Apple is going after both side of the market. Microsoft is counting on the upgrade market (i.e business). Life is getting fun again.

Google Talk looks VERY VERY stripped down..compelling reason to use this.. um.. most people hate bill gates.. back to trillian/adium

Oh my goodness, this is a total iChat ripoff. http://www.google.com/talk/ Not only did Google copy the iChat bubble (white instead of OS X blue), they also coppied the green, red, and orange color indications beside the buddies names for identifying them as online, away, or idle. There is absolutely no doubt where Google got their ideas for this chat software, it's a page straight out of iChat. I generally like Google and I like the direction they are headed in, but this just made my stomach turn. Everybody sharing the ideas of chat software and instant messengers is one thing, or even having the same features as other apps that are already out there. But, taking the iChat bubble... nobody else had that before Apple, that's a total OS X trademark logo. And using the same color dots? I'm sorry but that's where I draw my line on copy cats. The only thing graphically Google didn't rip off of iChat is the brushed metal skin. Perhaps I shouldn't hold my breath though... who knows what later versions could provide. This will be the first time that I don't at-least try Google software. I already have iChat, so no thanks.

Just look at the similarities between the Google Talk white bubble logo, and the iChat blue bubble logo. Google Talk: http://www.google.com/talk/ iChat: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/ Man, you'd think they could at-least come up with their own logo.

This artical i didnt even read.............but i really want google talk...now!!