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Mercury Messenger
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Mercury Messenger or simply "MM" (formerly called dMSN) is a Windows Live Messenger network Instant Messaging client developed in Java. It supports almost all of the features in Windows Live Messenger, bringing feature parity to Mac OS X and Linux; although it's currently distributed as freeware, Mercury is not Free Software. Features Live Messenger Service Apart from signing in on the Network (via different protocols from MSNP11 to MSNP15), Mercury Messenger the following features on WLM: *Display Pictures *File Transfer *Webcam sessions *Custom Emoticons *Audio conversations (Very Experimental) *Personal Messages *"What I'm Listening to" feature *Offline IM's *Winks *Nudges * contacts (Experimental) ** Signing in with MSNP14 *Voice Clips *Games (Tic-Tac-Toe only) *Windows Live Spaces view support Extra features *Growl support (Only on Mac OS X) *Tabbed Chatting *RSS Reader *Custom status icons *Proxy connection (in development) *Connect two or more accounts at the same time *Conversation history * Colours *Add-on system *Multilingual Advantage/drawback Mercury is a Java application which can be easily ported to various operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD). However, in some situations it will require a larger amount of CPU power and memory for animated emoticons and resizing of "large" display pictures than the native WLM. 
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