hi everyone, okay, so I just downloaded Adium for my macbook after the knowledgeable advice from these fine people 
I set it up with my contacts immediately, and so I soon got some people chatting with me as I had been away for a couple weeks after getting rid of my previous IM app (Microsoft Messenger for Mac, bleargh). Even with this little bit of use, I am already so impressed with this that I want to find something to recommend to a couple of Windows users I would like to be able to chat with but who don't really use IM as they don't like the proprietary apps. I know that I can't recommend the actual adium because they don't make a windows version, but I was hoping y'all could recommend something along those lines.
I guess this isn't technically about windows on a mac, it's just windows, but really I don't have another forum I can trust for my computing, so I thought this might be okay
If not, sorry!!
I set it up with my contacts immediately, and so I soon got some people chatting with me as I had been away for a couple weeks after getting rid of my previous IM app (Microsoft Messenger for Mac, bleargh). Even with this little bit of use, I am already so impressed with this that I want to find something to recommend to a couple of Windows users I would like to be able to chat with but who don't really use IM as they don't like the proprietary apps. I know that I can't recommend the actual adium because they don't make a windows version, but I was hoping y'all could recommend something along those lines.
I guess this isn't technically about windows on a mac, it's just windows, but really I don't have another forum I can trust for my computing, so I thought this might be okay