Heh, several of my clients, most of whom have more sensitive data than a game company would have, mandate the use of Skype for IM. It really is a good IM platfo

Heh, several of my clients, most of whom have more sensitive data than a game company would have, mandate the use of Skype for IM. It really is a good IM platform, with the ability to edit/remove last message sent, easily build chats/conferences, the "send file" functionality actually works, and of course, it's simple to launch into a voice or video call right from the client. It's a shame that no other IM protocol even comes close to that. On the other hand, Skype does keep logs of all your conversations on their servers, seemingly indefinitely. There's no easy crypto drop-in like OTR that I know of, and there's no easily evident way to delete those logs. I refuse to use it for non-mandated chats for these reasons.