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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. I don't get it ... by manastungare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why would this be better than all of them starting to use Jabber/XMPP (which is an IETF standard anyway), if interoperability is all they want? Google Talk already uses it.

    Hmm, I wonder if Google is a competitor to either of them in other markets ...

  2. I have only one thing to say. by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    :D :-o ^o) *-) :o) :-P (&)

    Any questions?

  3. Re:Trillian is irrelevant. Jabber is the future. by Darkman,+Walkin+Dude · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now you look like an ass-hat.

    Grow some balls and sign in, son. Then maybe we can talk.

    --
    What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
  4. Re:Coming soon to Gaim by FooBarWidget · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    By using a free program you waive any moral rights to complain. This has got nothing to do with open source, and everything with it being free. Heck, even Windows users are more polite than the average bitching Slashdotter! When I release an open source program for Windows, my users are very polite when they request a feature or bug fix. Slashdotters on the other hand call developers names and bitch, as if developers are somehow their slaves.