MSN Messenger Video Chat???

Hello all,
Does anyone know a way to have video chat with MSN Messenger users on either iPad or iMac??

Well Microsoft has a Messenger client for Mac but it doesnt offer video support. I have tried Adium, which works pretty well for everything, but it too doesnt offer video.
I was hoping that I was just out of touch with the mac world and that there was surely a solution for this but im beginning to think otherwise.
With all of the Messenger clients out there non of them support video chat, not even Microsofts very own.

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    It's a Microsoft problem because they simply aren't interested in developing no cost applications for the Mac, as evidenced by the dropping of both IE and Windows Media Player for OS X (it wouldn't surprise me if Messenger gets dropped by the end of the year), so MSN Messenger lags well behind the Windows version and lacks many of its features.
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