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by damaster on 15 Nov 2008, 11:59 AM with 7 comment(s) and 1,216 views

Yahoo Messenger featured on Analysts Meeting slide

Certainly there are some gems specific to Windows Live in the thought of a Yahoo! acquisition; Flickr, of course (and some Flickr users are none too happy about that), and the sheer numbers of eyeballs a combination of Mail and Messenger clients Yahoo! would bring to Windows Live is another.  One very interesting circumstance that springs to mind is Yahoo!'s work on a new Messenger concept: Yahoo Messenger for Vista.  That Yahoo! has a product in full development that utilizes the best of Windows Vista and WPF, and Microsoft and Windows Live don't, has been curious, to say the least.  Well, and of course this has no bearing on any knowledge of any plans for the Yahoo! product, but it sure is interesting to see it featured in one of the PowerPoint Slides from yesterday's Analyst's meeting:

yahoo slide1 yahoo slide2

Does it mean anything specific? Of course not.  Is it at least worthy of comment that whoever put together the slides knew enough about Yahoo! Messenger for Vista to feature it in a slide presented by Steve Ballmer?  Hmmm, interesting.

You can watch a little video on Yahoo! Messenger for Vista,

or try it for yourself.

Posted Feb 05 2008, 07:39 PM by Kip Kniskern
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pjzedalis wrote re: Yahoo Messenger featured on Analysts Meeting slide
on 02-05-2008 8:39 PM

At this point, it's a horrible program.  Very slow, minimal features, and completely pointless to use unless you just HAVE to be using the latest and greatest.

Mephiles wrote re: Yahoo Messenger featured on Analysts Meeting slide
on 02-05-2008 8:42 PM

It does look kind'a cool.

VasiS wrote re: Yahoo Messenger featured on Analysts Meeting slide
on 02-06-2008 1:05 AM

Yes the Yahoo Messenger for Vista program is the WORST!!, it has loads of un-neccesary transparencies, graphics and animations that make it un-usable (at-least when i tried it). Un-installed it promptly and never installed it again.

Damn! using WPF (and making it glossy) doestn have to be that bad, spoiling the whole user experience.

quikboy wrote re: Yahoo Messenger featured on Analysts Meeting slide
on 02-06-2008 5:31 AM

Maybe MS is working on their own WPF version of WLM to release for Windows Live 3.0. Though they're probably working to ensure that it won't be as buggy or slow as Y!'s was.

They probably just added that to show that anything that looks good is kind of helpful to the user experience. If only they just work on the way it functions...

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