Microsoft, Yahoo to link up instant messaging services
Last Updated Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:22:56 EDT
CBC News
Users of Microsoft and Yahoo's instant messaging (IM) services will soon have millions of new people to chat with after the two companies announced plans to make each service compatible with the other.
Combining the two services will allow 275 million customers of Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger to swap free instant text messages with users on either IM network.
Microsoft and Yahoo say their interconnectivity agreement – an industry first – will create the largest consumer IM market in the world.
"Being able to instant message between IM communities is one of the features most requested by MSN Messenger and Yahoo Instant Messenger users," the companies said in a joint statement.
Yahoo and Microsoft say people will be able to message users on the other's network by the second quarter of 2006.
The deal is aimed at taking on Time Warner, whose AOL Instant Messenger service now dominates the IM market. Microsoft's MSN Messenger is currently the second most popular IM service; Yahoo Instant Messenger is third.
Search engine giant Google has also recently launched an IM service of its own, Google Talk.
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
about time
There in talks with time warner over aim aparrently.
It is interesting to note one of Google Talks goal is to make all the services comaptible....
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
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