Anybody else see GAIM not working on Vista?

[Danny Mayer]

Adam Seering wrote:
> 
> On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Danny Mayer wrote:
> 
>> Kevin Koch wrote:
>>> Or, has anybody seen GAIM work properly on Vista?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On both 32 and 64 bit Vista, GAIM prompts for a password, even if
>>> NetIdMgr
>>> shows that there are valid credentials.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What behavior do you see?
>>
>> Well hopefully you upgraded to Pidgin since GAIM got renamed and
>> released as version 2.0.0. Is that what you're really running? I can't
>> answer about NetIdMgr since I don't use it that way.
> 
> For what it's worth: The Official MIT IS&T Recommendation is to use Gaim
> v1.5 (<http://itinfo.mit.edu/product.php?name=gaim&platform=Windows>). 
> 1.5's also the default on Linux Athena these days (not sure about
> WinAthena?).  So I'm sure pre-Pidgin Gaim still has users...
> 
> Adam

That may be but MSN broke GAIM 1.x and I had to upgrade to pre-2.0.0 to
get back the MSN IM access that I needed. Pidgin 2.0.0 is stable and
works well with at least Yahoo, MSN, Jabber and IRC.

Note that that version of GAIM and Official MIT support doesn't even
mention Vista so perhaps you shouldn't use Vista? :)

Danny