iChat equivalent on windows?

[Wrao]

Anyone know of a good windows AIM program that has(at least an option) for speech bubble style chatting AND an option for "available" status messages?

I'm not very familiar with any windows AIM offerings, so any information about the best(or ones that have those 2 features I'm looking for) would be appreciated.

[psgamer0921]

www.trillian.cc

It doesn't look like iChat from the start, but you can find skins to match it.

[Luca]

Does Trillian work with .mac screen names? Last time I tried it, it didn't. However, there are a number of AIM alternatives for Windows... they're not necessarily in iChat style, but an AIM client doesn't have to be in order to look good. The ones that most people I know use are Trillian and DeadAIM. DeadAIM in particular looks just like AIM, but it's a "Lite" version without ads and extra crap anywhere.

[Wrao]

hm, do any of these support available messages?

I know it's a kind of ridiculous feature to be asking for, but I feel like available messages are totally under used, only me and 4 other people on my buddy list(of about 80 people) use them, it would be neat if there were a couple more.

[wyvern]

I'd recommend gaim.