Yahoo Messenger 9.0

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Elliot B.

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I went through the same stages myself. Except that now I have moved on from WL Messenger to gtalk!

Call me old fashioned but I want my chat client to send instant messages and not change skins or send loud and crazy animations (like you do in WLM).

Then don't do any of that stuff, or hack it out of the program.

Grand Master

Elliot B.

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I used it once uninstalled it though it was ultra crap, and most people I talk to are on Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger.

I believe certain parts of the world primarily use Yahoo! Messenger. Some even use ICQ. WLM is dominant in the UK.

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Electric Jolt

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Yeah, I've had it for ages too. I think, however, that users using older YM versions were forced to upgrade.

I just wish YM uses the Windows UI in a way like WLM does. It would be much better, aesthetically.

The developers of Yahoo! Messenger seriously hate Vista because the no0bs of their IM network have so much trouble with Vista. I saw it all in the comments on their blog, they are XP lovers. And Yahoo! Messenger 10 is in one of their blog posts, with some pictures of it, one showing the desktop with it and it's XP. Not surprising at all to me, they are in love with an 8 year old operating system, the ugly lady in the blog post reminds me of that horrible saying "If it aint broke don't fix it!", she looks like she would say it... Stupid developers...

Agreed. I'm using Yahoo! Messenger 9 because of one person who refuses to switch. Especially under Windows 7 YM looks like a relict from early XP days.

Pity that Yahoo canned the WPF-based Messenger for Vista...

I know! That was a great Messenger client, and it was so slow on my computer until I upgraded my specs a week later from [1GB Ram,Pentium D Dual Core] to [4GB,Core 2 Quad Core]. It ran so fast, and then a couple builds later, it ran so fast, and my older configuration could then run the later builds, so it was getting somewhere. All of a sudden, they just shut it down, I'm still mad about their ****ty new version of Yahoo! Messenger.

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I think it's best to stop using Yahoo! Messenger and use Windows Live Messenger. By the way Mephistopheles, why don't you use Windows Live Messenger to talk with your friend? Is it an old version that doesn't support the two networks together? Windows Live Messenger is great to use, the graphics and UI really fit Windows 7, and Wave 4 should be even better.

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