I agree with Mentality whole heartedly on this one. I can't believe what I'm seeing here..

If you take a look at some of the earlier versions of mIRC, you will see how drastically the program has altered. I have been using it since the summer of 1999, it has changed a great deal even in the last five or six years.

Maybe I'm just a stick in the mud, but when I look at some of these newer clients, I shake my head at the shear amount of side panels, information bars, confusing logging options, slow dialogs etc... I go straight back to mIRC because its simple. You chat with it, what else do you need?!

Plus it has to be said that the mIRC text display system is far better than most of these newer ones...