Yahoo! Messenger 9 Free The latest version of the popular IM client

Posted by : Unknown Saturday, 13 July 2013

Yahoo! Messenger has long been one of the
world's most popular IM clients, mainly
because Yahoo! itself is such a large
presence in the realms of web-mail,
communities and so on. It now sits
comfortably in second place to Windows Live
Messenger in terms of user-base.
Among the new features in Yahoo!
Messenger, the emphasis is very much on
looks rather than functions. For example, the
brand new IMVironment feature (which
completely customizes your chat windows )
looks pretty impressive at first until you
realize that nearly all of them are simply
complex advertisements or marketing
campaigns from firms like Gatorade and
Kleenex. Improvements to the way contacts'
images are displayed, as well as new photo-
sharing via the excellent Flickr are welcome
additions but even they can't dispel the bad
smell emanating from IMVironment.
New emoticons have been added to this
latest version of Yahoo! Messenger, as have
new skins for the main window. To me, these
represent fairly minor aesthetic changes
rather than important new functionalities, and
as such aren't enough of a reason to
upgrade. More handy features like improved
handling of PC to PC calls, MP3 voicemail,
and better integration with Yahoo! sites have
also been included but again, none except for
the Flickr tool seems really useful. Really, this
Beta feels as if it's about matching Live
Messenger for features and not much more.
Yahoo! Messenger probably isn't aimed at
users like me who prize usability and
simplicity above bright colors and lots of
advertising. If you like the sound of branding
every chat window you use with Kleenex or
Axe deodorant then Yahoo! Messenger is for
you. If you'd rather use a simple, elegant and
uncluttered chat interface, switch to Google
Talk and you'll never look back.
A bloated, brightly colored IM client packed
with advertising and not much more.

Language: English, Spanish,
German, French,
Italian
File size: 414 KB
Date: May 30, 2012
Publisher: Yahoo! | More
programs (26)
Downloads: 1,629,528
O.S.: Windows XP,
Windows Vista,
Windows 7, Windows
8
Category: Instant Messaging >
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Clients
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