msn messenger to be supported in ichat?

i remember hearing a rumor a while back saying that when leopard comes out ichat will support msn messenger natively rather than having to go through jabber or whatever its called? how likely is this? i hope its true because it would be great as i cant use webcam since i swapped to mac as all my friends are on msn messenger . . . i havent really ever used ichat because i dont even know anyone else with a mac to use it with! and amsn never works right for me.

i think it would be an excellent move on apples behalf as their main target switcher market seems to be 'younger people' at least in the uk anyway and of course you switch only to realise youve lost a major piece of functionality which is very frustrating

i heard that as well but i would really be surprised if that happened.
you could try this though:
http://www.adiumx.com/

yeh, me too shame cause it has aol in already,
i use adium at the moment it just lacks quite a lot of features msn has, but its the best on offer in my opinion

what about amsn or whatever it is called?

I'm having issues with adiumX, and i'm starting to look around for alternatives (that are not M$)

yeh i think the ms one is awful!, what issues are you having with adium? i really like it better now v1.0 is out

amsn i didnt get on with found it to be really buggy and ugly, merury messenger is also worth a look but i think its java based and generally quite slow and again not so aesthetically pleasing

i use both AudiumX and amsn.

audium is very reliable and supports growl. but amsn supports A LOT more features like webcam, nudges, winks etc.. but amsn uses a lot of system resorces especialy the cpu. (mainly when on cam)

I so wish a i could make good use of my Isight
Why do microsoft have to be so ignorant, we get a messenger equivilant to windows messenger
No nudges, no winks, no custom emoticons
makes me want to cry lol

It is a shame that most of my IM friends are MSN users - still msn for mac provides basic functionality - which is about all I want anyway - I tried using jabber with iChat - it was ok - but if you don't have the web cam - what's the point?

I really like Adium - it seems very good I think I can be happy with this - aMSN is cool for when you want/need a web cam but it is not very nice to use - I've used it previously as a Linux user and I ended up using gaim as it was less buggy - ah well - what can you do?

start rumours ?