aMSN is an open source MSN Messenger clone, featuring:
- Display pictures
- Custom emoticons
- Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
- Sign in to more than one account at once
- File transfers
- Group support
- Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
- Chat logs
- Event alarms
- Webcam support
- History in color
- Ability to autoclose the filetransfer window when it is finished
- New plugins log window (Alt-P)
- Plugins compatible with supported languages
- Faster loading skin window
- Skins in chatwindow
- Resizable chatwindow bottom
- When you add a new user, you can define in which group you want to add them
- When a contact change status, the top of the chat window changes color ( green for away, grey for offline, etc.)
- New panel GUI to alert when there's a new aMSN version
- Possibility to download the new release directly by aMSN
- Automatically update language files and plugins from the web
- New gui for deleting users (also possible to block on deletion)
- Possible to add notes for each user (XML)
- Support for MSN Mobile service
- Tabbed windows so you can group conversations using tabs
- Status is displayed inside a frame, so it won't dissapear when you scroll
- Display picture in notification alert (like MSN 7)
- Statistics for history (logging)
- Now possible to choose any state for your login status (before it was only possible to login invisible or online)
- Timestamping
But that's not all! More features can be added to aMSN with plugins, or for the adventurous, completely change the look of aMSN with different skins!