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Why? Not only do people continue to use AIM -- entire companies use AIM. The last two game studios I worked at mandated this. Everyone in the company either
by palish 15y ago
Why?
Not only do people continue to use AIM -- entire companies use AIM.
The last two game studios I worked at mandated this. Everyone in the company either already used AIM, or created a new account with the company initials as a prefix.
Skype chat is superior, I agree. But AIM solves "the communication problem" just fine, too.
- simonsarris 15y agoHell, Cisco's messaging system was interoperable with AIM. Or it was, not sure if the new-new Webex one is.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoWhy on Earth would I prefer to use Skype? A bigger bloated more easily exploitable client? The only things I've used in GMail/Google Apps chat and IRC. I love IRC. I can private message people, we have rooms for different projects as well as idle chat area for random chit chat. I guess I just see AIM as really juvenile but that may have more to do with the gaudy AIM Windows clients.
- riffraff 15y agowhile I believe skype is bigger and bloated than most everything, you can easily have different rooms for different projects, idle chat area and private talks, with the advantage over IRC that they get synced when you come back online.
- pstack 15y agoThe preferred solution would probably be an internal Jabber/XMPP solution run within and by your own company that you controlled access to so that your communications (between employes or customers) don't run through another company and you can develop all sorts of nice little utilities that your employees can interact with through the protocol (like, access to general bug# information through simple queries). I would seriously question the integrity of any serious company's IT department if they just had everyone use AIM (the proprietary branded IM service -- not IM in general).