I tried both the latest betas of MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. The MSN Live Messenger (or basically the version 8 of MSN Messenger) has nothing new and exciting to offer other than perhaps, offline messages (thank god… could not try this feature out though). It crashed every time I tried to minimize it so well said goodbye to it after a while.

Yahoo! Messenger’s latest beta is almost similar with nothing exciting new to offer. The popup login box has gone as the login screen is built into the interface (similar to MSN Messenger). But, at least it does not crash. So, am using it for the time being.

Google Talk continues to remain the best one of the lot. Simple fast and usable.