Introducing Yahoo! Messenger 11 Beta!

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Introducing Yahoo! Messenger 11 Beta!

It?s here! The new Yahoo! Messenger Beta is now available for download. Yahoo! Messenger Beta makes it fun and easy to share, connect, and play with friends and family ? no matter where you are in the world.

We?re excited to tell you about all the great new features in this release:

DO MORE THAN JUST IM ? PLAY SOCIAL GAMES WITH FRIENDS

Instant messaging is great but it takes more than just IM to stay in touch with the people who matter most to you. The new Yahoo! Messenger Beta offers more ways than ever before to connect (and have fun!) with friends and family. Not only can you instant message, text, and make voice and video calls, you can now play social games right within Yahoo! Messenger.

• Play socially ? Play some of the most popular social games with your friends, starting with offerings from Zynga, Elex, and OMGPOP. Games include:
  
  • Fishville and Mafia Wars from Zynga ? Coming soon
    
  • Balloono, Pool, Draw My Thing from OMGPOP
    
  • Happy Harvest & Happy Manor from Elex
    

  [*]Get your friends involved ? Share your game activities and play-status so that friends can join your game and you can join theirs.

MANAGE ALL YOUR SOCIAL NETWORKS FROM ONE PLACE

Having trouble keeping up with different groups of friends across various social networks? Yahoo! Messenger Beta brings together your social experiences from across the web and provides a single destination to see what your friends are doing or let them know what you are up to.

• Keep up with friends wherever they are ? View, comment on and like updates from Yahoo! Pulse, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and more, all from one place, right within Yahoo! Messenger.
  
• Post one status to multiple social networks ? Share your Messenger status simultaneously on Yahoo! Pulse, Facebook, and Twitter.
  
• Chat with Facebook friends ? In addition to your friends on Windows Live, you can now IM your Facebook friends right within Yahoo! Messenger.
  

STAY CONNECTED ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

As you and your friends become increasingly mobile, it is essential to stay connected no matter where you are, across devices. That?s why Yahoo! Messenger keeps you connected whether on desktop, the Web, or mobile devices.

• Enjoy rich experiences across devices ? Now on Android! ? Make free video calls, and share photos and videos between PC, iPhone, and now Android.
  
• Converse virtually anywhere ? Start your IM conversations on your PC and continue them from your iPhone, Android, or any Internet-enabled device.
  
• Always be available ? Stay signed in to multiple PCs simultaneously so you never miss a message.
  
• Easy access to recent conversations ? Retrieve recent IM conversations from any PC where you have signed in to Yahoo! Messenger.
  

Learn more and download the new Yahoo! Messenger Beta at http://messenger.yahoo.com/beta/win.We hope you?ll enjoy the new Yahoo! Messenger Beta as much as we do!

As with any new release, we want to hear all about your experience ? what?s working well for you and what?s not. Try it today and let us know what you think through the ?Send Feedback? link on the Help menu.

Also note that video calling on Android requires OS 2.2+ and the Yahoo! Messenger Video Add-on. We support the MyTouch 4G & EVO phones, and will support additional devices in the coming weeks.

John Dunning

Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger

Source: Yahoo! Messenger blog

Download: Yahoo! Messenger 11 beta (for Windows)

Good job working on the UI and making it look like a 2010-era app rather than an early XP-era app, Yahoo. Oh wait...

[Mr. Gibs]

Oh my god..and people complain about the new WLM?

[ViperAFK]

Yahoo should just give up, this is pathetic.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Oh my god..and people complain about the new WLM?

It does make your eyes bleed, doesn't it? Especially the nasty default colour scheme.

[Code149]

Oh my god! Why the heck they insist on keeping that ugly Ui instead of Aero? :x Yahoo! Messenger is my sole messenger app, so it really does bother me.

They ought to make the goddamn ugly skin opt-in!! :pinch: :angry: No native look and feel, not worth an upgrade for me.

[~Johnny]

Wish they'd kept that WPF version of messenger they had a few years back, that was pretty nice<img>

[+Ryster Subscriber²]

Ugh... Bubblegum Messenger anyone? This is horrible.

[Rappy Veteran]

I remember the Vista edition :p

[liju]

The only Yahoo Messenger for Windows I ever installed was the WPF Vista version and it was one of the most visually appealing programs I've ever seen. I still have that installer.

[Electric Jolt]

Epic Fail... Yahoo go back to when Windows XP was the newest Windows OS release if you can't make a damn release of Yahoo Messenger that fits in with the current release of Windows... :angry:

[AJerman]

Wow, that pretty much sucks. That's all. Glad I don't use Yahoo.

[Code149]

Epic Fail... Yahoo go back to when Windows XP was the newest Windows OS release if you can't make a damn release of Yahoo Messenger that fits in with the current release of Windows... :angry:

Your comment on the Yahoo! blog is right before mine. :p (Y)

[+Elі Subscriber²]

I can't believe they insist in keeping that ugly as hell interface, it's disgusting!

[IceBreakerG]

Does anyone know if they've "finally" added tabbed chat? Makes absolutely no sense that in 2010, they're the only ones to "not" have tabbed chat. Even the crappy google talk has tabs! I also agree the UI sucks horribly. As far as the yahoo messenger for Vista that was released a few years ago, there was 1 really big problem with it: It ran like absolute crap. Didn't seem to matter how fast your computer was, the program ran like dog poo.

[Xtreme $niper]

You think this is horrible? Check out the Skype 5 for Mac beta. :x

[neo1911]

Same here. Glad I too stopped using ugly yahoo messenger. It was buggy, it crashed if Flash was not installed. lol

Now when are we gonna see an update to OSX version ?

[DrewJW]

Wow that is a fugly mess.

[Boo Berry]

It's still using 10+ year old Y!Pager code from the late 90's and it's still as exploitable to several vulnerabilities as ever before. In fact, with the addition of Facebook and Twitter account integration, if somebody compromised your account (by grabbing your cookie via a vulnerability, and yes there was a few of these vulns as of late capable of doing this) they could easily compromise your Facebook and Twitter accounts as well. Just as worse enough, if somebody succeeded at stealing your ID and you have the conversation history feature on, the person who stole your account could view all your saved conversations since they're now stored server-side and not client side anymore.

Don't get me started on the Windows Aero window borders around Yahoo's existing skins... they seem to can't do anything right. Well, they did with the Yahoo! Messenger For Vista WPF version however they discontinued that. :rolleyes:

Total epic failure. Give up Yahoo.

[Denis W. Veteran]

The WPF version was slow, barely responsive if any animation occurs, and pretty featureless - still pretty though. On the contrary, WLMessenger 2011 manages to sneak in UI animations and still remain snappy.

[Scorbing]

Pass.

[BajiRav]

:|

[Boo Berry]

I personally never really had speed issues with the WPF version, probably because I didn't really notice. :p It's funny too, the only 'real' major update for Y!M11 is Facebook and Twitter integration while WLM 2011 already has this and it does it pretty damn well versus how Yahoo is doing it. They really, really need to rewrite Yahoo! Messenger - in fact, they need to re-write the YMSG protocol used as well.

Some of you might really be surprised how much exploitation goes on in the "Yahoo! Messenger community" including some really critical account compromising vulnerabilities.

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

That looks REALLY bloaty.

[manifesto]

Fail. :x

[mancode20]

Offline installer link please. Thanks!