Linked by David Adams on Tue 26th May 2009 15:44 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes In our latest "Ask OSNews" installment, a reader asks: "Do you think Apple will ever have a standalone Windows version of their email app so that us Window users can download and use it? My family and I currently use Incredimail and occasionally Thunderbird."
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I doubt it'll happen either, but
by polaris20 on Tue 26th May 2009 16:26 UTC
polaris20
Member since:
2005-07-06

I'd much rather see iChat ported over. iChat is a great XMPP client, and is the only one I know of that'll connect to an internal and secured XMPP server and do video chat.

All the others are either 3rd party hosted or won't do it. I've got a SSL enabled XMPP server, and iChat video chat over it is fantastic, arguably better than Skype, and definitely better than MSN or Yahoo. Sadly it only works for OS X, and no available Windows/Linux XMPP client supports video chat compatible to iChat's method.

Bill Shooter of Bul Member since:
2006-07-14

Yeah ichat is a nice program. It has its quirks where my buddy list will disappear completely with no way to bring it back outside of disconnecting from the account and then reconnecting. But, other than that its pretty solid. And I do prefer it to pidgin.

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