Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still providing a rich feature set, Miranda includes support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu and more. Additionally, with the choice of hundreds of plugins, icons, sounds and other content, Miranda IM gives you the ability to modify, customise and extend functionality to make it your own.
Customized look and function according to each individual's needs. Management and organization of hundreds of IM buddies on many IM networks. Contact renaming. Full message archive database. Simple recall or deletion with the DB Tool or History Sweeper plugin. Contact details or photos visible with mouseover. (Needs additional plugin). No advertising. Compact and portable: with few plugins. Security/Privacy: Saves history on hard disk. Low memory footprint.
In May 2012 Miranda IM was forked to Miranda NG (New Generation). The reasons were a shift in the development team and the slow-paced development of the original Miranda. The main differences between the original client and the fork are: a switch to Visual Studio 2010's compiler thus dropping support for Windows 95/98/ME and non-Unicode plugins, and the fact that the core and plugins development was combined and that they share a unified repository.
Miranda NG is a successor of a popular multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows - Miranda IM. Very light on system resources and extremely fast.
The protocol plugins included with Miranda IM are AIM, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Microsoft Messenger service (a.k.a. MSN, .NET, Live, etc.), XMPP (& Google Talk), and Yahoo! Messenger. Other protocols available via plugins include Bonjour Fetion, Facebook Messenger, Inter-Asterisk eXchange, Lotus Sametime, NetSend, MySpace, Tencent QQ, SIP, Skype (requires Skype), Tlen.pl, Xfire.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 / 11
