While I personally despise Microsoft for various reasons, you can't argue Bill is a genius in one way or another. His latest move might soften his view in the eyes of a lot of *adults*, granted, these are the same people who don't get the patches and who do infect themselves, but they are also his bread and butter, his money. He is saying no to pedophiles, saying no to corrupting these people's children, and apparently making an effort to improve the internet for them....we all know what's really going on....squeeeeeeze out the money any way you can, but that's not how it looks to the majority, another nice move I'd say in Bill Gates latest game of chess.

As someone else mentioned, though you don't need a *nix system for it as they kind of implied, use IRC, it will always be free (as far as the eyes can see) and is a chat haven for anything you could ever possibly want.

http://www.mirc.com (for more info about what it is and the most popular windows client)

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