yes, actually they did it because of things like dead aim, and msn, why not use what the competitor has? its the smart thing to do, i like the pop up things, that was the reason i had dead aim, they made alot of new things onto aim that was the only reason i had dead aim, like the more than one screen name option, and the windows, the only thing they need now is to store all aim convos, thats what i loved that dead aim did! in my opinion, it was just a very smart move to make for aim