Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Preview

Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Preview

WhoTheF on 10 January 2007 - 21:51 · 26 comments & 10623 views

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Built from the ground up specifically for Microsoft Windows Vista, this all-new version combines the reliable and easy-to-use features you've always loved from Yahoo! Messenger with the cutting-edge experience of this new operating system.

Instant message, voice, webcam video, and more
Use the integrated Yahoo! Messenger Sidebar gadget to keep up with the friends that matter most
Also add Windows Live™ Messenger friends to your contact list to see when they're online and IM them
Keep conversations organized by dragging and dropping them into one tabbed window
Brand new emoticons, program icons and alert sounds
Instantly change the look and feel of your Yahoo! Messenger interface
Automatic groups are created in your contact list based on your Yahoo! interests (i.e. Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football league)

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#1 rev23dev on 10 Jan 2007 - 21:56

hopefully they don't muck it up with ads. that's too nice of a UI to be bogged with advertising.

#2 lerum on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:00

Looks pretty sweet

much better than windows live messenger IMO

(1 reply) #3 jordanspringer on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:02

omg when will WLM make a nice vista version!?

#3.1 +NeoFlux on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:11

Never?

#4 RhythmFlirt on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:10

I got to confess, it does look extremely hot.

Wish WLM got better.

#5 haydn82 on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:13

WOW.. Very nice indeed....

#6 cwalker2734 on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:16

not too bad - too bad I dont use IM

#7 chicken-royal on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:27

Wow, that looks very nice! Some nice features too!

(2 replies) #8 Marduk on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:30

Crap! IS this the start of that crap that coaxed you from Windows ME into XP? Where there were alot of nice shiny new apps that you were REQUIRED to get XP to run?

#8.1 mattrobs on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:37

I'd think so, yes.

#8.2 rm20010 on 11 Jan 2007 - 05:39

To be fair to Yahoo, if this used DWM for the glassy effects, I'd say it makes sense.

(1 reply) #9 +NI3NOR on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:35

I am the only to think that look like a bad made mock up without being a mock up?
I bet can do better in photoshop...

#9.1 +vlsi0n on 11 Jan 2007 - 02:52

It looked great! I don't know what you're talking about..

#10 PharosBR on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:42

Wow, so Yahoo can come up with a cool messenger and Microsoft itself can't create a special version of WLM for their own Vista?

(1 reply) #11 DomZ on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:48

This makes WLM look like arse. How come Yahoo can take advantag of the new features of vista and microsoft havn't bothered?

#11.1 Sir G on 10 Jan 2007 - 22:58

Quote - (DomZ said @ #11)

This makes WLM look like arse. How come Yahoo can take advantag of the new features of vista and microsoft havn't bothered?

Let's hope the WLM team have a little surprise up their sleeve for when WLM 8.1 goes final; Yahoo's looking niceee.

(1 reply) #12 So Scene on 10 Jan 2007 - 23:13

I can't wait until Vista starts getting more applications as pretty as this one.

#12.1 +vlsi0n on 11 Jan 2007 - 02:52

+1 Finally.

#13 NightmarE D on 10 Jan 2007 - 23:52

Been a Yahoo Messenger user for years and that looks very nice.

Nice to see that a lot of you are enjoying the look of this one also.

#14 xxdesmus on 10 Jan 2007 - 23:53

So I just want a beta of this

...I don't even have any Yahoo friends, but it looks so cool

#15 rb1385 on 11 Jan 2007 - 00:48

Outstanding...I can't wait to see how this runs. Hopefully WLM will get on the ball soon.

#16 tareqsiraj on 11 Jan 2007 - 01:27

now thats what i call a new version.

#17 QuarterSwede on 11 Jan 2007 - 02:14

It's about time there are some good looking and intuitive Windows apps.

#18 +vlsi0n on 11 Jan 2007 - 02:54

Wow, I could never get into using Y! messenger because WLM was always better in every way. Now Y! messenger looks beautiful and WLM better step up or else I see Y! messenger gaining ground here

#19 Pimpster on 11 Jan 2007 - 09:06

funny how OSX 10.5 shots have this black type of theme in them. vista really should have gone for black glass instead of this white bull****.

#20 _dandy_ on 11 Jan 2007 - 16:32

I guess I'm the only one wondering whatever happened to low-overhead instant messengers of yesteryear...y'know, you type something, somebody else receives it, they type something back...with nothing else in the way.

Bells and whistles, that's what it all amounts to. Personally, I don't use voice chat, games, disable crap like winks, nudges, emoticons, and nobody needs to know what track I'm currently listening to. I just need a freakin' chat client that works over TCP/IP.

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