out of the frying pan and into the fire.
msn is little better then aim,
jabber on the other hand...is the must evolved/superior IM network there is imho.
centralised networks are soo unreliable
(before someone says no one uses jabber, first take note that a jabber user can talk to people on msn/yim/aim servers fine - this is not to be confused with clients that support multiple networks at once, such as trillian, which is a very different concept.).