Can confirm the same for Github for Windows (msysgit again), Chef for Windows (embedded bash) as well as Cygwin's bash

Except for the plastic keyboard, I don't see any advantage. Use a decent Jabber client (I'm using Beem on Android) and you get all these features on gchat, with just your gmail address. Plus, figure out the priority thing right, and you can have all the messages delivered to the right client. GTalk broadcasts to all clients by default, but the better IM clients give you an option to send and receive.

And it works well on Opera as well on Day 1. (Unlike Wave)

And what would happen if I tried to re-install Google's Sound Recorder app? Would I get the same message?

Hugh Akston in Atlas Shrugged: "Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."