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Microsoft, Yahoo link their instant messaging systems | |
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| Time: 00:56 EST/05:56 GMT | News Source: Yahoo News | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Yahoo and Microsoft announced that they would tear down the wall between their formerly exclusive instant messaging services and allow members to mingle beginning Wednesday. The union of Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger systems would create the world's largest combined IM network with nearly 350 million users, the US companies said in a joint release. Users will need to install the latest versions of Yahoo and Live messaging software to make connections. The companies said the programs would be available for free download from their websites. The rival Internet firms had been testing the message system link since July with "beta" software released on a limited basis. | ||
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| #1 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 9/27/2006 1:39:05 AM |
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remember when AOL IM was the shizzle, and MSN would never catch up?
aw, the memories. |
| #2 By 1401 (69.27.196.125) at 9/27/2006 9:02:36 AM |
| I hear also that Microsoft is coming out with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP that's supposed to have advanced security in it... |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 9/27/2006 1:36:21 PM |
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Good for both of them. It's pathetic that open source solutions like Gaim and Kopete can communicate with all these disparate IM networks, but the majors can't get their acts together. I remember that a condition of the AOL-Time-Warner merger was that AOL had to open up its IM network to MS and Yahoo. They somehow managed to stall for years with BS that nobody technical believed and to this day haven't complied.
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