I use Yahoo for personal and until 2 weeks ago I used it at work. We are in the process of switching work IM to Microsoft Communicator. It is part of a suite for businesses running on a lan. They say it's more secure. We have to wait on that one. I've tried it and the features are not quite as friendly.

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