Microsoft, Yahoo Finally Merge IM Networks

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.

Comments

Re:Solution?

[Timesprout]

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

Re:Encryption

[mgblst]

So how is your sister today?

She was great the other night!

Re:Solution?

[Y-Studios]

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

Re:Encryption

[Anonymous Coward]

How often do you need encryption on your IM conversations?

In the US: 24/7. The fact that the NSA is reading, saving and distributing it to various federal and state LE agencies is reason alone. Welcome to amerika.

Re:Encryption

[plumby]

She didn't say the same about you.

Re:Translation to American English

[doublem]

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.