In the heady days of 1997, when AOL Instant Messenger came into the world, there was nothing else like it. Conceived within the hallowed halls of AOL, AIM introduced a large swath of early ...

Scheduled for release as part of Windows XP on October 25., Windows Messenger will for the first time allow users of the Microsoft IM tool to send audio and video files from computer to computer. Now, ...

The latter, meanwhile, was an early instant messaging service, popular back in the days when America Online's AIM Messenger was still a dominating force. Microsoft's MSN Messenger launched as an ...