

Software such as Trillian's doesn't 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're communicating with. This means, for example, that a Yahoo IM user can't send a message to an AOL IM user. and Microsoft, haven't enabled their systems to interoperate.

The major IM providers, such as Yahoo, AOL. 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 take 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. 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.
