Comments on: A Look at Yahoo’s Vista Messenger

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By: Hawky

Hawky — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:30:45 +0000

i am currently using YM that is capable of signing in multi users. This is great for people who’s got many Y! IDs like me. However, this is made by someone not from Y! Is there such a software from Y! for Vista?

By: saleemraheel

saleemraheel — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:28:10 +0000

please sent me yahoo spot room

By: tammy

tammy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:21:36 +0000

i love yahoo but i have just one problem since i got windows vista i cant hear one single sound when i go into a yahoo chatroom, this is the reason i go to yahoo to hear my friends, i wish someone keep help me figure out why i cant hear.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:24:27 +0000

Haaaa, I’m sick of people complaining all the time, especially when it’s about free software. This application looks very good and clean and it has interesting features. I’m 28, I’m a serious PhD student and I care about good looks. This app sure looks good!

By: Berlin

Berlin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:18:47 +0000

It won’t appeal to x-gens but kids today love to customize. friendster didn’t allow customization at first and look what happened. and it doesn’t matter if myspace is ugly. think, think!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:59:14 +0000

I personally prefer lighter aim. http://x.aim.com/laim/ Its install file is only about 1Mb. I can only guess what this Y! messenger will be.

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:47:20 +0000

Nick, after reading some of the other comments here, I started wondering… what happens if your operating system is not Microsoft Windows Vista?

Would Yahoo be funding parallel development of two interfaces, one for Vista users, one for everyone else?

Do you have any info about how the development ends up paying for itself…?

tx, jd/adobe

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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:32:17 +0000

Nick, it would have been interesting to contrast this with their existing client for XP. If this is not a prototype but closer to a finished product, then this is signals a rather marked departure from their IM strategy. Yahoo! Messenger for Vista does not include ads, space for Yahoo! Plug-Ins (assuming these will go to Vista sidebar), or buttons for their lucrative IMvironments. Clearly they are pushing their avatars business though. Could this be a premium, ad-free, subscription-based sku?

By: Yahoo! Messenger Blog » Introducing Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Yahoo! Messenger Blog » Introducing Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:27:16 +0000

[...] P.S. - We showed a prototype of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista to a roomful of press and bloggers on Sunday. Check out some of the early reviews: CNET News.com Eweek Computerworld Techcrunch Fullmanator.com [...]

By: SimpleMatchingService.com

SimpleMatchingService.com — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:39:33 +0000

Meh - visual style doesn’t appeal to mature users (MS - visual style/UI guidelines please!) but prolly would appeal to the early teens that are one of the biggest user segments. Perhaps Yahoo should make the appearance age-sensitive…

By: Loops

Loops — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:34:01 +0000

Y! never will appeal to me. I’ll always prefer MSN anytime.

By: Matt Brian

Matt Brian — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:06:56 +0000

Doesn’t the new Windows Live Messenger allow you to add Y! contacts to your MSN contact list anyway? Save multiple installs of IM software and and add them via MSN.

Y! has never appealed to me to be honest so I shall not be using it anyway.

Of course you could always use Trillian or the fantastic looking Gaim

By: liquid

liquid — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:56:11 +0000

This is absolutely useless for users. Making the application graphically intense wastes resources and does not contribute to the productivity of users sending messages. ALL I WANT TO DO IS TYPE ABCs.

Hopefully application developers will start focusing on simiplicity and minimalistic design. Just go straight to the point. I dont want effects, I dont need effects. I want to type. I dont want anything distracting me from typing and wasting my time say oh that is friggin cool .

By: keith J

keith J — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:32:05 +0000

So… with all this development with Vista, have they completely forgot about the Yahoo! for Mac? They finally released beta one… almost 7 months ago with no updates.

By: David Garcia

David Garcia — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:49:10 +0000

Looking at what XAML/WPF can do makes me think it’ll run into the same problems that Macromedia Flash had in its early days. Sure it is pretty, but every single time you see a WPF application you’ll have to learn once again how to interact with it.

By: Fullman's Blog

Fullman's Blog — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:41:38 +0000

The Next Yahoo! Messenger: For Windows Vista…

One of the things us internet developers (read: staffers at AgencyNet) do is look at what’s new and around the corner, not just on the web, but in applications and ultimately the operating systems. OS-X aside (sorry Apple, you’re still stuck with a r…

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:37:22 +0000

Nicolas: Yup, guess you’re right about that!

By: paul king

paul king — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:17:57 +0000

I’m still using YM 6.0. I refuse to upgrade. I did once but trading files became a nightmare, it crashed more than I care to remember, and when it wasn’t crashing it was freezing everything around. Once I found 6.0 on another site (they would no longer make it available on theirs) and I loaded it, the world went back to normal. I don’t care if they stick a Fararri in the thing - 6.0 simplicity is the way to go.

By: Frank Cefalu

Frank Cefalu — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:17:01 +0000

Im glad that finally windows can have a decent base of applications that look good. The New Trillian UI, New Yahoo UI, New Vista UI, New MSN UI.

And it will work perfectly on a pc that is the same price as a mac. At least now computer companies producing any form of laptop or desktop computer, will have to kern their computers for the requirements of vista.

The next year will turn out to be an interesting one.

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:16:59 +0000

It’s eyecatchy

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:30:33 +0000

You can sugar-coat a turd all you want, but it’s still a turd at the end of the day.

Sorry if I seem negative, but I’ve never been much of a fan of any yahoo software. It has always just seemed overly bloated just for the sake of it. Maybe this app will prove me wrong.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:34:59 +0000

@Erik: I agree with you, except for the conclusion: OSX is not better than Windows (look at finder vs iTunes vs aperture for instance: not really consistent ). I fear that the various widget engines, XAML/WPF, Apollo…. will soon break all the consistency we appreciated in modern OS (Windows / Apple).

At the same time, the video of the new Y! Messenger is pretty awesome.