Messenger service is no more in VISTA, Alternatives?

Does anyone know of any good alternatives to the messenger service..
IE: the ability to send broadcast messages to multiple PCs, vista
included?

Perhaps something other than Office Communicator, maybe a 3rd party
app I'm not aware of?

As an admin, the broadcast message is vital to communicating
information that is timely related to systems down time etc...

Thanks

"markm75" wrote in message

> Does anyone know of any good alternatives to the messenger service..
> IE: the ability to send broadcast messages to multiple PCs, vista
> included?
>
> Perhaps something other than Office Communicator, maybe a 3rd party
> app I'm not aware of?
>
> As an admin, the broadcast message is vital to communicating
> information that is timely related to systems down time etc...
>
> Thanks
>


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