All the comments on here are very witty. This Wire app is only available for iOS and recent versions of Android (no joy for me on 4.1 on my obviously ANCIENT Xp

All the comments on here are very witty. This Wire app is only available for iOS and recent versions of Android (no joy for me on 4.1 on my obviously ANCIENT Xperia S that still functions fine), and only available for OSX. Great for me on OSX but not for my chums on Windows. Buying a Mac makes for an expensive application price, no? But in all seriousness I recall having great IM with MSN Messenger about 15 years ago, and despite the incessant barrage of replacement apps, there is still no one leader. Sure, we now have Facetime so I can irritate my mum at all times of the day but that's no good for my brother on Windows. And I find Skype to be a massive battery hog on my laptop, and an advert-infested mess on Windows. Is anyone else like me, and just sticking to SMS and emails? The other day on a BBC News article it mentioned "if you're a bit old fashioned and use email"... but I think email is great because you can archive it offline (I have useful emails from years ago) and it can also be used in court I think. IM logs - are they evidence in court? All the old chat logs get tidied up from all the IM systems I come across, so there is no referring back to old messages, or a paper trail. EDIT: I'm getting downvoted, not sure why? In all seriousness is email really broken that we need another IM system? Obviously the lack of video calling is a big problem....