However, Trillian, with about 940,000 users in the U.S. There are other software applications available that perform similar tasks as Trillian's. Thus, for example, a user can have Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft IM buddies all listed in the Trillian IM application. Software such as Trillian's does not solve the lack of interoperability but alleviates the inconvenience by establishing a single IM console from where a user can send messages to others in a variety of IM networks. Thus, users normally end up connected to several IM networks simultaneously, having to toggle among each service's IM management software, depending on whom they are communicating with. This means, for example, that a Yahoo IM user can't send a message to an AOL IM user. The major IM providers, such as Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft, have not enabled their systems to interoperate. Trillian is an application made by Cerulean Studios that lets end users manage multiple IM accounts from a single IM console in their PCs. Steps taken by Yahoo to safeguard its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging (IM) service from spammers are also disrupting the legitimate use of the popular Trillian application, a problem that had been foreshadowed in recent weeks.
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