How to I talk to hotmail users without using msn?

Most of my friends use MSN as their only IM provider. I don't have a hotmail account and would rather not create one. Is it possible for me to chat with them using a different program other than MSN and without creating a hotmail account?
How to I talk to hotmail users without using msn?
hi


►use your yahoo account and yahoomessenger to talk with msn/hotmail users


log on yahoomessenger


contacts


add contact


write the complete hotmail/live address of the contact on the blank space


click on 'windows live contact'


SEND





►or use trillian


http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads...





►Trillian™ is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings.





►Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications.





►or Pidgin


http://www.pidgin.im/





►Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.





►Supported chat networks:





AIM Bonjour Gadu-Gadu Google Talk Groupwise ICQ IRC MSN MySpaceIM QQ SILC SIMPLE Sametime XMPP Yahoo! Zephyr








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Reply:there are several programs that will allow you to connect to msn chat without actually downloading the microsoft client. Trillian and Gaim are very good clients that you can use to connect to msn without actually having it. If you have a mac, use Adium. There are other programs around but these tend to be the most famous of them.
Reply:by dowloading a program in which you have everything in one place but this is worse than just creating a hotmail account....
Reply:You can add them to your Yahoo messenger ! ( at least i think so!)