Cool! Let me know what you think. A few of my buddies had a hard time making the conversion to having one application do everything for them. I don't know why, but they did. lol.

when was messenger 2011 final released?

I just installed it now and it's so.... different. I can't say it's good different or bad though. Have to use it for a few days and see.

Tried Digsby previously. It worked well to a degree then it just randomly crashed on me after an update. :(

I have a macbook and the only msn messenger available for me (that I know of) is this really old PoS that doesn't even work half of the time.

After hearing about pidgin, I ran to their site to download the mac version, but subsequently got extremely confused on their "download information" page where they walk you through the actions. What the hell? It's rocket science to me. @_@ I thought it was going to be a simple download and install, but it .... it doesn't seem that way at all.

Yea I've noticed that about the Mac version as well. I installed it about a year ago when I was working developing iPhone apps. For Windows and linux the install is pretty easy. Another good one for Mac that is almost identical to Pidgin is Adium (http://adium.im/). This one has a straight forward install AFAIK.

I am gonna give it a few days but so far it seems good and light. Sadly it doesn't support skype accounts.

I just installed it and it crashed once during the installation process, I am going to need a few more days to judge .

My friend uses Adium and another program called Nimbuzz for MAC. I know Nimbuzz is greatly great on cell phones.

Adium looks cool:

well my important friends switched and I couldn't do photo sharing and other stuff with them so I had to update as well.

This! 

Have irc, MSn, and AIM all together. 

Just makes life simpler :)

Yes i use window live messenger. I have 2 Account on it I am statisfied with its Performance.