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Microsoft, Yahoo Finally Merge IM Networks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the intarweb-communications-changed-4evr dept.

WinBreak writes "Marketwatch is reporting that, nine months after their announcement, Microsoft and Yahoo! are finally ready to roll out beta IM clients of MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger that will be able to talk to each other." The Windows Live Ideas and Yahoo! Messenger pages have more information; the companies say that the resulting user community will be the world's largest, at around 350 million accounts, and that they'll be using SSL to encrypt the traffic between the systems.

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  1. jerry yang u *(%##@ by the_masked_mallard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    jerry yang came to my school in may this year and I asked him about the proposed merger. he literally told me to get lost and said it was baseless rumours and no way would yahoo! tie up with microsoft.

  2. Encryption - Vendor lock-in by eMbry00s · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh great, it'll be encrypted! Praise the lord, finally they found a way to get rid of all of those "freedom fanboys" who want to use their own applications to interface with our networks. Pfft, good riddance.

    Seriously, though, this is bad, bad, news.