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. It is a closed source freeware program originally developed by Ilgam Zyulkorneev. In 2008 it was bought by

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media group and named most popular RBC service in 2009.

Features

A Softpedia review of QIP 2006 mentioned its unique feature (at the time) of tabbed message windows—instead of a message window for each chat session, one window with several tabs is shown. Since this feature's introduction, ICQ Version 6.0 now includes this feature, as do the multi-service clients

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, Miranda NG, and Trillian. Other features include integrated mail.ru e-mail client, and a wider range of

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. QIP presents no advertisements in the application windows; this is described as a security advantage.Ilascu, Ionut (February 28, 2007)
"Lonely No More"
review. SoftPedia.com.

Versions

QIP 2005

QIP 2005 is an alternative

based on the

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. It has full support of ICQ and experimental support of AIM. QIP 2005 does not properly support Unicode which causes issues when sending and receiving non- ASCII messages unless both users use QIP.Ticket #1645 (closed defect: fixed) ICQ Encoding Problems
Pidgin.im Bug Report. June 12, 2006.

QIP Infium

QIP Infium is the second version of QIP. It features full Unicode support and is multi-protocol client, supporting the following protocols: * OSCAR: ICQ * XMPP, first stolen and only then licensed on Miranda NG Jabber Plug-in with preinstalled settings for QIP, LiveJournal,

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* XIMSS ( CommuniGate Pro IM and VoIP protocol) with preinstalled settings for QIP, SIPNET and Euroset * Mail.ru Agent * IRC (Additional plugin)

QIP 2010

New version of QIP named QIP 2010 contains all features of Infium and interface of QIP 2005.

QIP 2012

QIP Infium will attempt to reset Internet Explorer to use the search engine at the QIP homepage (currently written in Russian). This feature can be disabled on the first attempt or by using the Add-on Manager under the Tools menu of Internet Explorer.

QIP PDA

QIP PDA is a mobile version of QIP made for Windows Mobile, Symbian OS S60, and Symbian OS UIQ 3.

References

External links

* {{IRC clients AIM (software) clients Windows-only freeware Windows-only instant messaging clients Internet Relay Chat clients Windows Internet Relay Chat clients Portable software Symbian instant messaging clients