aMSN

of the best alternatives to use MSN network is aMSN, a good IM client to chat with your MSN contacts. You'll find all features you are used to have in the official Windows Live Messenger - new name of MSN- aMSN supports avatars, custom smileys, different languages, filesharing, chat log, multisession, skins, sounds,winks, tabs, etc. in fact it offers even more options than the original one. If you want to keep in touch with your MSN contacts but you don't like the original IM client by Microsoft, aMSN can be a really good choice.