Popular Twitter desktop client Seesmic has launched a version for Windows that eliminates the need to use the sometimes clunky Adobe AIR.

As anyone who has gone into Twitter API overdraft using Seesmic or TweetDeck can tell you, Adobe AIR isn't always up to handling a voracious Twitter user. Seesmic hopes its Seesmic for Windows eliminates AIR's inherent memory limitations and, more to the point, becomes an attractive environment for Twitter apps developers.

ReadWriteWeb's Frederic Lardinois reports that company founder and CEO Loic Le Meur unveiled Seesmic for Windows Tuesday morning at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference. He writes:

As Le Meur told us yesterday, the new client will be faster and use significantly less memory than the current AIR client. In addition, Seesmic will now also feature a Firefox-like plugin infrastructure that will allow developers to extend the application through a new, built-in API.

Meanwhile, Mashable's Ben Parr calls Seesmic for Windows "a fully-functional desktop program that utilizes some of the best features of Windows 7."

This sounds extremely intriguing and could make Seesmic for Windows a magnet for Twitter apps developers -- something the company sorely needs if it is to overtake TweetDeck as the top third-party Twitter desktop client. A new study from social analytics firm Sysomos on Twitter clients reports that 8.5% of user updates are sent from TweetDeck. While that's far behind Twitter's home page, Twitter.com (which pumps out 47% of the microblogging service's updates), it's far ahead of Seesmic at 1.1%. But if Seesmic can continue to beat TweetDeck to the punch, as it did with Seesmic for Windows and Twitter Lists, it could start peeling away users.

I'm waiting for one more email from Seesmic before I can begin playing with Seesmic for Windows. (Though I did get an email from LeMeur personally thanking me for "joining team seesmic".)