Messages and iChat

I upgraded to mountain lion but all my friends still have snow leopard or lion, so they use ichat. Is there a way to send messages and video chat with people who have AIM or mac ichat accounts using messages?

yes you should still be able to communicate with them. They have to have an AIM account minimum. I do not remember if iChat lets you add a jabber account.

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    etown9287 wrote:
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    9:52 PM      Thursday; June 21, 2012
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    why did apple erase ichat? its so much better than messages and now I cant video chat with my ichat buddies!!!

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    8:47 PM      Tuesday; April 17, 2012
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    10:06 PM      Thursday; March 8, 2012
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