Several years ago, Trillian was the end all be all for Windows messengers. Not the first, but certainly one of the most stylish and attractive universal messengers, Trillian was an instant web-success. Then things started to go wrong. Development was split into a free version and a pro (commercial) version. Both started getting bloated and performance suffered. But, Trillian appears to be making a comeback. With the newest version, Astra, Cerulean Studios are attacking the performance issues by updating the rendering times as well as chasing down the many memory leaks that have been plaguing them for years now. Many new enhancements are coming, including a widget system, support for MySpace Messenger, and many other new features. But enough blah blah blah, go take a look and see if you’re willing to give old faithful another shot.

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