You know, on a business stand point, this looks like there's something going on between Microsoft and Yahoo... well, we already know Microsoft HATES Google so it sounds like something is going on between the two companies...

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Hey, it just so happened, one day before I signed up, I downloaded Windows live Messenger. It came with this add on. What a strange co-incidence... I really think there is something going on with Yahoo and Microsoft. Of course, Barako, it is only the voice calls that are connected, I think.

~souradipm

I have bpth betas, and they both accept either kind of user as a contact. But WLM never shows the yahoo contatcs as online, and it's a fifty-fifty shot as to whether or not it works with yahoo! and the WLM users. Any ideas?

~Viz

Viz .. did ya sign up for the beta ? (check the link in my previous post) .. i tried it and it works just fine .. i can see my self on yahoo and chat to myself .. plus its pretty fast ..

Regards
Dhanesh.

For some 'strange' reason Microsoft didn't want to team up with Google (which took the initiative to offer a linked network) when they got their messaging program up. Basically they just want to get the Yahoo users with a theoretically better and better-looking messenger. They wouldn't be as successful if they chose to do the same with AIM/ICQ users, for example, or even some open-sourced networks, where you can choose from lots of messaging programs (often much better then MSN, AIM, etc).

Dreaming is for free, so it wouldn't be that terrible (someday) having just to choose a program, because all networks are fully linked up. That day I'd finally getting weird messages from MSN in Miranda... yeah, for sure.

This post has been edited by KDEWolf: Aug 15 2006, 10:31 PM