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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: October 20, 2009
- Total Downloads: 985,354
- Downloads last week: 365
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 79 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Miranda IM lacks the slick design of most IM programs, but makes up for it by supporting most IM programs in one fully customizable package. It's easy to add your various IM accounts--including AIM, Yahoo, ICQ and MSN--and you'll have the same icons and status messages for each program. You can even manage the personal information for all your accounts from one central control panel.
Miranda IM's plain, gray instant-messaging window offers just the basics for typing and viewing messages; you won't find the text formatting options, emoticons, or links that a program like Yahoo Messenger offers. You will find numerous options to customize how chat or IM windows behave, including a handy option to have messages from a specific person always appear in the same location on your screen. You also can assign hot keys for a few actions like opening the program or reading a message.
Miranda IM is offered as freeware. You'll give up some of the unique features of your IM programs, but Miranda IM allows you to conveniently monitor and manage many of your chat and messaging programs in one place.
Publisher's description
From Miranda IM :Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still providing a rich feature set, Miranda includes support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu and other protocols. Additionally, with the choice of hundreds of plugins, icons, sounds and other content, Miranda IM gives you the ability to modify, customise and extend functionality to make it your own.
What's new in this version:
Version 0.8.9 fixes SSL connection failure handling and potential buffer overflow issue.
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Version: Miranda IM (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7) 0.8.9
"It needs improvement but does the job"
Pros: you can have as many accounts as desired
easy to use
easy to install different status images
comfortable and lightCons: Needs to be lighter so you can handle as many as you want and do not have weight issues with your OS
Crashes and causes crashes when mixed with Mozilla, FB, Skype and NOrton
Does not connect eveyr single account automaticallySummary: it is a good, easy to use, simple program, but there is no way to contact designers and explain problems, if you need to lughten the weight of your software so you will be able to handle all your needs no problem, then you might want to check other ... read more >>
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