Yahoo! Messenger Preview for Windows Vista

Yahoo! Messenger Preview for Windows Vista

Admodieus on 07 December 2007 - 12:27 · 19 comments & 13325 views

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The long-awaited Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista now has a preview build available for download. The Vista version sports an entirely resdesigned user interface, tabbed chatting, the ability to transfer files of up to 2GB over the Messenger client, and a corresponding Sidebar gadget to boot.

A couple of things are missing from this build, however. Users eager to try out this version will have to do without both voice and video chat, and will also have to deal with poorer performance than the traditional Yahoo! Messenger. There is also no 64 Bit version of the software, although it is unknown if the final build will include a 64 Bit version.

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#1 synchro on 07 Dec 2007 - 12:55

So has anyone figured out how to sign in using your windowslive user?

#2 +littleneutrino on 07 Dec 2007 - 12:58

you do not sign in useing your windows live user however you can add your windows live friends to your buddie list just as you would normally ad a buddy.

(1 reply) #3 Max2Go on 07 Dec 2007 - 13:14

...and no support for Vista x64

...what a shame

#3.1 thenay on 08 Dec 2007 - 00:00

I know! What the heck! In a couple of yrs everyone will be using x64 only once all systems have 4GB of ram or more!

(2 replies) #4 diabulos on 07 Dec 2007 - 14:00

At least it shows that Yahoo understands Vista better than MS!!! better use of the Vista interface, truer to Vista's UI and far more user firendly than Messenger, which looks the same since its win 98 version. Funny MS cannot even produce something good with their own OS, it takes someone else to innovate.....

#4.1 mamee on 07 Dec 2007 - 17:15

No no no! It's so damn slow...and I do have a great pc!

#4.2 excalpius on 08 Dec 2007 - 20:32

indeed. No one at MS seems to care about what their vista applications look like...after all the hype about the new coding options of DWM etc. I've been testing the glass interfaces for Miranda using Messenger and it's so much prettier and cleaner. It's VERY sad for MS when the open source shareware tinkerers are turning out better core applications for their OS than they can...sigh.

#5 NitramX9X on 07 Dec 2007 - 14:23

Download 64-bit patch here: http://anti-tgtsoft.com/repository/other-p...a_x64_patch.zip

(1 reply) #6 digitalsoft on 07 Dec 2007 - 15:04

tryed this yesterday.. rather crappy imo.

#6.1 balupton on 08 Dec 2007 - 00:09

Yes, I think that this was the biggest let down for 2007... The preview back in January looked great, but got this, and well... meh...

#7 NightmarE D on 07 Dec 2007 - 15:25

They made it clear it's a preview version with lots missing and people still complain

Here's an idea people. Use the feedback part that comes with it to report your issues. Seeing how that's the whole point of this preview release.

(1 reply) #8 darkpuma on 07 Dec 2007 - 21:50

people use yahoo messenger?

#8.1 al11588 on 08 Dec 2007 - 05:22

Quote - (darkpuma said @ #

people use yahoo messenger?

that is what i said to lol

#9 Michael King on 07 Dec 2007 - 22:35

No need for a patch. An official 64-bit version was released on Yahoo's site.

http://www.ymessengerblog.com

#10 Web_Explorer on 09 Dec 2007 - 14:13

not bad, but some simple, wating the final release

#11 SirEvan on 09 Dec 2007 - 18:05

am i missing something here? I have yahoo messanger running on my laptop that has vista home premium on it....is there supposed to be some crazy VISTA only build out?

#12 Tiger78 on 10 Dec 2007 - 09:20

I can't wait for adding more features for Yahoo Messenger for Vista at the final release! I am wondering is that first version for vista? In the future, will it be 2.0 version?

Tiger

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