Why do I always ichat instead of iMessage

Help a friend set up a new MacBook Air with El Capitan, used Migration Assistant to transfer files from his old Mac running Leopard. Everything seemed to go OK except that now she has iChat on the new computer instead of iMessage. When I click on iChat, it said iMessage in the menu bar, but a pop up window saying iChat is not taken in charge and to download iMessage. I can't find anywhere to download iMessage. I tried Googling without success and have searched in the Apple Forums. Help, please.

Just to claify, known as Messages, not iMessages. One of the risks associated with the Migration Wizard migration is it copies on older applications. If you see iChat in "Applications" drag it to the trash and empty it. If the message is not in 'Applications', you will need to reinstall El Capitan. It cannot be downloaded separately as far as I know.

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