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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:Solution? by Timesprout · · Score: 0, Troll

    Right, get back to us in a few years when gaim supports voice and video and might actually be useable

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  2. Re:Solution? by Y-Studios · · Score: 0, Troll

    GAIM is the solution... why bother with Microsoft & Yahoo.

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  3. Re:Encryption by plumby · · Score: 0, Troll

    She didn't say the same about you.

  4. Re:Translation to American English by doublem · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sooo, You're saying that there are still some Americans who are protected by the rights stripped away by the Patriot Act? Because all the earlier post is saying is that a lot of our rights were stripped away by the Patriot Act.

    Oh, right, the wealthy and powerful. THEY'RE still enjoying the Bill of Rights, not because of any laws supporting them anymore, but because they're too powerful for the police to go after them without significant public outcry.

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