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Re:Correction

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 10, 2002 02:40 PM
The big difference between the old 'talk' clients and the new 'IM' clients is the joining of the presence and chatting interface. That made a huge difference. A little change in the user interface made Instant Messaging an instant success. This once more proves how important the user interface is. Microsoft also had a lot of features in its Netmeeting but it failed to take off just because of this feature.

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