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Yahoo and Microsoft to Merge Instant Messengers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the instant-gratification dept.

Primotech writes "Betanews has word that Microsoft and Yahoo plan to link their respective IM clients again so that users of both can communicate with each other on one, shared network. Facing threats from third-party applications, like Trillian and Skype, the two tech giants will claim 44% of the instant messaging market, analysts predict. They will also go head to head together with the biggest competitor, AOL."

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  1. Just great . . . by Seumas · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So now I can't use the excuse that "I don't use Yahoo!" anymore to avoid talking to those douchebags who are too dumb to use something else. Even though I use jabber, I'm not going to bother creating a yahoo! account for the 1% of chat users that use Yahoo! just so I can connect with the transit plugin for their protocol.