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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. Re:gaim-vv by rayde · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it certainly isn't trolling to make a perfectly valid point.

  2. miranda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For Windows, the best multi-protocol client is miranda. Not free (except beer-free and ad-free) but not evil either, and much nicer than trillian and gaim, and with a very active community of plugin developers for IM and widgets. Version 0.5 is announced to be released soon.

  3. Re:You Can Have Your Unstable Apps by acb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Also, real hackers don't use GUIs. Graphical displays are for lusers too dumb to use a command line.

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion