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Image via CrunchBase The war, which the company ICQ, in recent months against the alternative messengers (uses Oscar), has led to a result - the mass migration of users to the IM-clients with open protocols. This is Trillian, Miranda, Jabber and many others. But against the background of the leaders in the fast breaks brainchild of Google - Internet messenger Google Talk. Until now, "Computer newspaper not to publish a detailed review of the program. Well, try to correct this omission. Moreover, users of Google Talk in the CIS countries, as the statistics show, is growing literally day by day. Indeed Google Talk, appeared in 2005 - It's free and easy-to-use service that lets people make voice calls and send instant messages. This is a downloadable application for Windows allows you to simply and easily communicate in real time. Google Talk is an instant messaging service, which is based on XMPP - an open protocol, better known as Jabber. In Russia and CIS in IM-services has be...

Image via Wikipedia December 9, the company AOL has once again showed all his very special relationship to the users of the same protocol ICQ. Around the dinner, many users of older versions of clients ICQ, as well as some alternative clients when trying to connect to the ICQ servers have received the message type: "ICQ version 5.1 is no longer supported. Download a free authorized version of ICQ from the official web-site ICQ. "From the contact with the nickname« 1 ». No other information on the contact was not, though, and so could guess who is the author of this message. Meanwhile, all other contacts in the list were from this time are not available. However, even alternative and old customers, the problem affected only those who have tried to connect to the server. Customers that have already been online and not made reconnection has long publicly stated that they "worked". In fact, of the popular clients for Windows to remain fully operational, only ICQ and ICQ...