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The Bottom Line
- Miranda IM is dedicated, lean, fast and stable
- Supports all major instant messaging protocols including ICQ, AOL, Yahoo!, Jabber, IRC
- Almost endless possibilities with countless Miranda IM plug-ins
- Miranda IM sometimes has to catch up with protocol changes
- Does not support all features specific to certain networks
- Miranda IM does not support video conferencing, environments and games
Description
- Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client.
- Miranda IM support text messaging, web page sharing and file transfer.
- Protocols supported by Miranda IM include MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu and IRC.
- Miranda IM lets you search network white pages and add users to your contacts easily.
- Miranda IM keeps a searchable history for every contact.
- You can ignore certain user events selectively and set your visibility per contact.
- Miranda IM supports user-is-typing notification with protocols that offer it (ICQ, MSN and Jabber).
- Unicode support makes Miranda IM a polyglot instant messaging program.
- The interface and functionality of Miranda IM can be tweaked and expanded via plug-ins.
- Miranda IM supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista.
Guide Review - Miranda IM 0.7 - Instant Messaging Program
The lack of unnecessary gimmicks makes Miranda IM very easy and efficient to use, too, with the exception of the densely populated configuration dialog maybe. But speed is only one effect of Miranda IM's design. The unparalleled flexibility is another.
Countless plug-ins allow you to expand Miranda's capabilities and make it look and work the way you like it best. You can skin Miranda IM's interface, add advanced logging, add pop-up notifications, and, maybe most importantly, teach Miranda IM to talk with a great number of networks using their native protocol.
Of course, this also means that, as protocols change, you may be disconnected for a while now and then. This and the lack of support for special features of some networks are the major drawbacks of Miranda IM. Support for video/audio conferencing and advanced (adaptive) filtering would be great, too.
