Domnic Mendes, who had a positive experience with this tool, thought aMSN would be a good addition to Cool Tools.

• Display pictures
  
• Custom emoticons
  
• Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
  
• Sign in to more than one account at once
  
• File transfers
  
• Group support
  
• Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
  
• Chat logs
  
• Event alarms
  
• Webcam support
  
• History in color
  
• Ability to autoclose the filetransfer window when it is finished
  
• New plugins log window (Alt-P)
  
• Plugins compatible with supported languages
  
• Faster loading skin window
  
• Skins in chatwindow
  
• Resizable chatwindow bottom
  
• When you add a new user, you can define in which group you want to add them
  
• When a contact change status, the top of the chat window changes color ( green for away, grey for offline, etc.)
  
• New panel GUI to alert when there's a new aMSN version
  
• Possibility to download the new release directly by aMSN
  
• Automatically update language files and plugins from the web
  
• New gui for deleting users (also possible to block on deletion)
  
• Possible to add notes for each user (XML)
  
• Support for MSN Mobile service
  
• Tabbed windows so you can group conversations using tabs
  
• Status is displayed inside a frame, so it won't dissapear when you scroll
  
• Display picture in notification alert (like MSN 7)
  
• Statistics for history (logging)
  
• Now possible to choose any state for your login status (before it was only possible to login invisible or online)
  
• Timestamping

But that's not all! More features can be added to aMSN with plugins, or for the adventurous, completely change the look of aMSN with different skins!