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Yahoo Messenger Instant message service is one of the most popular mediums of staying connected to old friends and making new ones. Yahoo Messenger is an advertisement-supported client for instant messaging and its protocol is maintained by Yahoo. The best thing about Yahoo Messenger is it can be absolutely for free of cost is easy to download. Only one needs to create a generic Yahoo ID that lets you access to the services provided by the Yahoo. These services include the Yahoo Mail where the users are kept alert and updated about the latest messages they receive in their inbox. The next best thing about Yahoo Messenger is that it can be used PC to PC, PC to Phone and vice versa. The features of Yahoo Messenger do not end at this.
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The other features of the Yahoo Messenger include services like file transfers, text messaging service, webcam hosting and chat rooms for live chat sessions with audio and video facility. The features of Yahoo Messenger include IMVironments which have the capability to customize the appearance of the windows of Instant Message. Then there are themed backgrounds with the popular faces of cartoon that include Dilbert and Garfield. It also offers the facility of address-book as well as “Custom Status Messages”.
Yahoo Messenger happens to be the first giant IM client that had the BUZZing option and also had a music-status. One of the newest additions in the Yahoo Messenger is the customized avatars. The Yahoo Messenger version 2.5.3 which was aimed at the Mac users was released in the year 2003 is now currently used by Mac OS X. It is said to be far from the newest version for the Windows and is criticized for being buggy. The version beta has an even better interface with features like avatars, image viewing, BUZZ and other features related close to Windows version. However, it still does not provide the Mac users facilities like photo sharing, PC-to-PC calling, chat room and photo sharing facility. The newest version of beta has also been reported for bugs which also includes a java bug. Yahoo Messenger announced the launch of Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta which has an improved interface with a new set of emoticons. It also offers a Flickr account with new version of the media player where the users can view photos, maps and videos in the IM window, that are being offered by the Yahoo Video and YouTube.
Yahoo has also declared collaboration with Microsoft and has announced its joining with the networks of instant messaging by it. This will create Yahoo Messenger’s compatibility with the .NET Messenger Service by Microsoft. In turn, this will also make the Windows Live Messenger of Microsoft compatible with the network of Yahoo. Yahoo Messenger is now featuring an added facility where in the users can create plug-ins which are then displayed in the Plug-in gallery of Yahoo. The chat room facility is present in all the versions of Yahoo Messenger. Offline messaging service is also one of the features offered by the Yahoo Messenger.
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