Welcome to the Yahoo! Messenger blog

A big hello from the Yahoo! Messenger team! We know that devoted Messenger users need a place to get the latest news and updates, and we definitely want a way to tell you about the cool things we’ve been working on.
We’re very excited to welcome you to the Yahoo! Messenger blog. We’ll use this blog [...]

Introducing Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

There’s a lot of buzz around Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where we and thousands of others are this week.
And today we announced we’re working on a brand new version of Yahoo! Messenger, built from the ground up specifically for Windows Vista.

This is our next [...]

Yahoo! Messenger Goes to CES

What’s the telltale sign of a day spent at the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas? Aching feet! CES is the world’s largest electronics show. The exhibits, gadgets, and booths go on for miles. My first stop was the Yahoo! tent, where I saw our own Josh Jacobson in action, demonstrating the new Yahoo! Messenger [...]

2006’s Innovations in Instant Messaging

Old school instant messenger users remember when IM was just a back- and-forth exchange in plain text, and if you were feeling creative, an emoticon or an LOL. Today a world of fun and productivity is open to IM users as they connect by voice, animations, shared files, photos, and even video.
For IM innovation, 2006 [...]

Working Together: Yahoo! Messenger and Lotus Sametime

Great news! The Yahoo! Messenger interoperability with IBM Lotus Sametime is officially live. Yahoo! Messenger users can now IM with IBM’s ten million Sametime users.
Sametime is the world’s best selling enterprise IM software and part of the IBM Lotus software suite. To add a friend who uses Sametime to your Yahoo! Messenger contact list, click [...]

Let’s Chat

We appreciate all your enthusiasm and comments on our blog. We do read the comments, and it’s clear there are concerns around Yahoo! Messenger’s chat rooms. So we want to address some of them.
Right off the bat, we want to let you know there was an outage the weekend of January 12th that prevented users [...]

Hacking Away at Yahoo! Messenger

Every few months, we have Hack Day here at Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Employees are challenged to create unique products or features using Yahoo! products.
Most Hack Day creations are not available to the public, but we thought you’d enjoy seeing how we got creative with Yahoo! Messenger at the last Hack Day:

New Build & Free Voice Feature

There is a new build of the Windows version of Yahoo! Messenger now available for download (8.1.0.239). It includes improvements in voice quality and sign-in as well as fixes for minor bugs with the new Microsoft Windows Vista operating system that launches on January 30.
If you’re unsure which version you’re using, go to the Help [...]

A Brave New Avatar World

I don’t know about you, but I think IM’ing in a box all the time can start to get dull. So I recently loaded the new Avatar World plug-in to spice things up. Now I chat Avatar-to-Avatar with my friends in rooms with fun backgrounds, swap files using our Avatar World suitcases, and there are [...]

Great Gadget: Linksys CIT310 Cordless Phone

I was looking over my phone bill from the holidays and thought the phone company had messed up. My long distance charges were lower than usual.
It’s probably because my calling habits have changed since I installed the Linksys CIT310 Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger on my PC. It sits right next to my computer, [...]

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