We only use this to let Adium automatically know your address, which we need to connect. Your Mac OS X Address Book is the easiest way to combine contacts.
Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services (see further down for the list) and then chat with other people using. Adium requests two permissions: Access to Google Talk, which we clearly need.
Therefore, it’s likely that we won’t start work on Adium for iPhone until sometime after Adium for Mac requires Leopard. I always use Adium since I found it last fall. Some of the iPhone’s features, such as Core Animation, were introduced in Leopard (10.5). Currently, Adium’s base system requirement is Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). The most popular Windows alternative is Element, which is both free and Open Source.If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adium and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Partial address book integration, cool looking tabs, multiple protocols for instant messaging, and a compact contact list are some of the many features of the new Adium X. Adium is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality.