According to a recent post at AppleInsider, iChat 3, which is due as part of OS 10.4 Tiger, is likely to sport tabbed windows. iTunes integration has also made an appearance, allowing the current track playing in iTunes to be set as the current here/away message. There are a host of 3rd party scripts to provide this functionality in the current version of iTunes, but this appears to be integrated into the app itself. Additional new features are expected in the messaging client that haven't even shown in the most recent builds, according to their sources.
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