Adium vs. Yahoo! Messenger

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Adium is an instant messaging software for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, It can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.

Adium vs. Yahoo! Messenger :

	Adium	Yahoo! Messenger
Operating system support	Mac OS X	Windows,Mac OSX ,BlackBerry
Protocol support	WLM,Y!M,AIM,ICQ,XMPP,IRC IBM Lotus Sametime , Novell GroupWise Messenger,Bonjour,Gadu-Gadu QQ OTR,LAN,Xfire,Skype,MySpaceIM, Facebook , LiveJournal	WLM, Y!M , IBM Lotus Sametime
Features included	Encryption ,Graphical smileys ,Unicode (UTF-8) ,Themes / skins,Plugin system,Third party add-ons, Scripting,Message Logging	File transfer,Graphical smileys, Unicode (UTF-8) ,Built-in games, Themes / skins ,Plugin system,Message Logging, Voice messaging, Voice Mail ,Webcam Support ,Offline messaging,Right-to-Left texting