Sure, every other IM client out there features voice, video and desktop-to-mobile messaging nowadays, but the first one to implement these features was AIM. In recent times AIM may have lost some ground to the competition, but the only thing that Skype, for example, does not have is pioneering spirit.

As a matter of fact, AIM users made up more than half of the messaging market in North America, according to a statistic from 2006. An IM client that can be accessed free of charge and can be used on pretty much any platform out there? Now that’s a recipe for success. Fact number two: you can use AIM on your Windows-powered PC, on your Mac, on Linux and even on your iPhone or Windows Mobile smartphone. Fact number one: AIM will not cost you a think as long as you go for free, ad-supported version.

Log into your AIM account, select a contact, type a message and hit send – that contact receives your message in real-time, and should he decide to reply, you will get the reply in real-time as well.Īnyone can get AIM and use it, and I base my statement on two facts. The instant messaging part (IM) means that you can use the software to communicate with your AIM contacts in real-time. The AOL part is obviously America Online, the internet services and media company from the US that is run by Time Warner. In the world of instant messaging software, the software market is ruled by a couple of applications.

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