Wow.. I was astonished this evening when I saw my brother using Gaim. He is running Gaim on Windows - he needs Windows for the web design tools he uses.

Why is it using Gaim and not MSN anymore? Because Gaim has tabs - not a great reason, but very useful for him. He finaly realised that functionality counts in an Instant Messaging client, not only a beautiful skinned interface.
See what happens when the devs listen to the users’ needs? A new happy Gaim user appears :D.

The next step is getting my brother to use Jabber, only jabber… Jabber is evolving.. the Jabber clients are evolving… more and more users are getting to Jabber… somewhere in the future there will be so many applications that some users will be forced to moved to Jabber.