This is interesting news:

It seems it is all about convergence these days. This is a good move by Microsoft and Yahoo. One less Messenger application I need to have running on my desk.

took a little time to go through the simple set up this morning. It was a matter of a couple of clicks, and allegedly my Yahoo and MSN can now talk to each other. Have not had the opportunity to test it yet. The biggest challenge confronting me, will probably be the amount of time it takes for my friends and colleagues to adopt the new Messenger or Yahoo, as I believe they need to be running the latest version of one or the other in order for the connectivity to work.

IWinBreak writes "Marketwatch is reporting that, nine months after their announcement, Microsoft and Yahoo! are finally ready to roll out beta IM clients of MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger that will be able to talk to each other." The Windows Live Ideas and Yahoo! Messenger pages have more information; the companies say that the resulting user community will be the world's largest, at around 350 million accounts, and that they'll be using SSL to encrypt the traffic between the systems.

Personally I love it. I have always liked Yahoo Messenger better, and the new Beta rocks.

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