In the desktop IM war, Yahoo has fired its most recent salvo against MSN and AOL by releasing a
beta of their new IM
client. Coming just as Microsoft has
announced
that they are getting ready to release version 6.2 of the MSN browser.
As a user of Yahoo's IM as well as a glutton for punishment I downloaded the client yesterday. Well, I am happy to report that so far things are going rather well.
The biggest change that I see so far is the tighter integration with Yahoo mail, Avatars beta and other various Yahoo services. The biggest addition that I have see is the integration with Launchcast, which I promptly disabled and removed from the interface. I'm not a big fan of IM clients with bells and whistles. Given me what I want…IM.
1. >> The biggest addition that I have see is the integration with Launchcast, which I promptly disabled and removed from the interface. I’m not a big fan of IM clients with bells and whistles. Given me what I want…IM.
So why post this in the Digital Music Blog? Especially since the new Yahoo! Messenger was already covered here?
Posted at 4:55AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Brad Hill