Yahoo and MSN getting jiggy with it

October 11, 2006 by Oliver
Filed under: Computers, Google, Technology 

It was announced a while ago, but this morning MSN Messenger announced it to me personally (well it game me a popup)… MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger users can now chat to each other using either’s client.

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This is presumably a way to try and stop the multi-network clients that are becoming more popular and taking advertising revenue from the two of them. Well sort of. It’s more likely an attempt to stop Google’s attempt to spread a free and open IM network.

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  1. Microsoft playing nice? - Oliver Brown on Fri, 3rd Nov 2006 10:14 am

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