This year Brosix won the category «Best Business IM». About.com’s Instant Messaging Editor Brandon De Hoyos had this to say in the results page, «With a laundry list of great collaboration tools, About.com users have continuously backed Brosix as a stellar product, and 2011′s Best Business IM client. As a perennial favorite of Readers’ Choice Awards participants, Brosix helps make creating your own private IM network for enterprise or personal use easy, with its light and simple IM client.»

For the third year in a row, About.com readers have chosen Brosix as the IM client with the year’s best IM feature. This year, Brosix’s screen sharing feature takes top honors as 2011′s Best IM feature, an exciting collaboration tool for personal and business use. Brosix won Best IM 2009 with Brosix Whiteboard and Best IM 2010 with Brosix Screenshot. This unconditionally shows the innovation that is constantly created by Brosix in the Instant Messaging and collaboration industry.

Brosix is second in «Best Mac IM» surpassing the old player Adium, the Mac’s native IM client iChat and the giant Yahoo Messenger.

• Best IM Client for Mac 2011: Brosix
• Best Business IM 2011: Brosix
• Best IM Feature 2011: Brosix Screen Sharing

Thanks to all our customers, users and friends that supported us for this nomination.

Voting is now underway and we would appreciate your support. Voting ends Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at midnight EST. So, hurry to vote and make all your friends vote as well.

You can vote for Brosix by following all of these links. It is important to click on each of these links as they vote in different categories

Vote for Brosix in Best IM Client for Mac 2011
Vote for Brosix in Best Business IM 2011
Vote for Brosix Screen Sharing in Best IM Feature 2011

There’s no prize — just the bragging rights that come with knowing that the readers of one of the Web’s largest networks love your favourite IM client – Brosix

There’s no prize — just the bragging rights that come with knowing that the readers of one of the Web’s largest networks love your favourite IM client — Brosix.

Nominate Brosix Here and we’ll keep you up-to-date on if we garner enough nominations to move onto the voting process.

The original About.com’s nomination page is here

Improvements:

• Changes in the User Interface — We rearranged some components, moved them around, added new small features here and there to make Brosix easier to use.

• Local History upgrade — Local history is upgraded in two ways. First it is saved in a different format, and second, you can disable it from Brosix settings.

• Fixed bugs — We have found some bugs here and there and we have fixed them. An important one was with the Text Conference, when you sign off and then sign in, you was receiving messages from the text conference participants in separate windows.

New features:

• Custom Online, Away and Busy states — You can define custom states like «Away, I am out for lunch» or «Busy, I am in a meeting». These custom states are displayed directly on your contact computers so they know why exactly you are away or busy.

• Text Chat upgrade — Text chat comes with several new features — integrated history, quick messages, auto-reply, easy group conference.

• History in Text Chat- When you open Text Chat window, all today’s conversation with this contact is displayed. This makes easier to continue a previous conversation.

• Quick messages — You can pre-define messages and send them with a single click. This saves time when you have to send the same message all over the day. For example the receptionist has frequently to type: «You have a call on line#»

• Auto-reply — You can instruct Brosix to automatically reply for incomming messages when you are in a certain state. For example, you have set your online state to «Busy, I am in a meeting» and Joe is sending you a message. Brosix can automatically reply him back with «Auto reply: I am busy right now in a meeting. I will contact you as soon as I can.»

• Easy group conference — Starting a conference with a group is much easier now. Just select the group from your contact list, and then click the Text Chat icon. This will automatically create a Text Conference with all people in that group that are currently online.

• Screen Sharing - the most important new feature. The other name is «Desktop Sharing».

Brosix Screen-Sharing

Brosix Screen Sharing allows extremely easily to share your computer screen with a colleague or friend or to request him to view his screen. There are four types of Brosix Screen Sharing sessions:

1. Send your screen to a contact
2. Send your screen to a contact and allow him to work with your mouse and keyboard
3. View your contact’s screen
4. View your contact’s screen and work with his mouse and keyboard

The cases you would need such a tool are numerous. You may ask yout IT department to help with your computer. Your IT department personnel could be a thousand miles away and they can assist you immediately. You may want to show your colleague the new software you use, browse sites together etc.etc.

All this can save you travel or other expenses.

The best two things about Brosix Screen Sharing are:

1. It is completely free — no limits on how frequently or how long you use it. You may use it once a day for 20 minutes or leave it running all the day.
2. It is extremely easy to use — just a few clicks and the session starts — as everything with Brosix

This is the main download page that points to the others
http://ru.brosix.com/download/

And these are the pages with detailed instructions
http://ru.brosix.com/download/windows/
http://ru.brosix.com/download/windows-portable/
http://ru.brosix.com/download/mac/
http://ru.brosix.com/download/linux/

We hope these detailed instructions will help our users easier to install and use Brosix.