AIM Pro enters the market, and damn, that was impressive.. review and small screenshots
Tags :AIM Pro
First of all, there are no ads, it is free and offers the normal chat, video and audio. What is better about the Pro version is the integration with Webex, tabbed chats (with another neat feature below) and the Outlook and Office integration.
As soon as it fired up it prompted for my DAMO hook I had installed. Which then is able to grab my calendar.
I jumped into a chat with Carl Tyler (who was on Trillian at the time) and we did the normal testing to see what works and what doesn't when not using the same client. I switched to "Share my Screen" and since he was not running AIM Pro, it offered him a URL that was all Webex technology behind the scenes. And it was lightening fast. Highlighting, text, annotations. The whole idea of screen sharing.
Tabbed browsing worked very well and even notified you in the left pane of how many unread lines I had per chat on other tabs. We couldn't do audio and video as this was a test machine, so I will load this and try again. File sharing offered an inbound and outbound window to show multiple transfers. Firewalls were no issue in testing so far.
Quick contacts was a cool feature. Add by email address or name in a drag and drop or selection box. Since I had the DAMO loaded, it grabbed our Domino Directory also. Encryption was built in to all the chat sessions.
What I didn't like was there was no install path selection available, it chose it's own. Plus, there were some things in the EULA that got announced it was installing I was not sure about. I am investigating those. It also used some hefty memory but I was trying everything. Still smaller than the recent Sametime 7.5 betas unfortunately.
Go and take a look. Once all the federations are complete, you could have a powerful free client to choose from for chat and meeting services.
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On Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 by Chris Miller
