Yahoo IMing MSN Stars (or is it MSN IMing Yahoo?)

posted by: Admun @ 11:53:53 on 10/13/05

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So, MSN and Yahoo decided to provide inter-op for their users. It's a good news for IM users around the world.

I've been using gaim on my Linux box, which support many IM systems. I login to MSN, Yahoo and ICQ, and it consolidates my 3 IM accounts under the same client. Even through it's not the best client around, but it gets the job done as it's a good way to go without have to run 3 client s/w at the same time.

With this inter-op agreement, I should be able to use my MSN to IM to my Yahoo friend and colleague. Maybe what I can do is to run only MSN at home and has all my Yahoo friends IM me via my MSN account when I am at home. Then when I am at work I will be using Yahoo (MSN is blocked at work, anyway).... don't know if it is better this way??

On the other hand, I'm interested to see whether they are going to provide function to link a MSN account to a corresponding Yahoo one. This will be very useful in the sense that I do not have to let all Yahoo friends know my MSN account in order for them to IM me. It will be cumbersome to have to do it manually.

Now, let's add Jabber support so I can link to Google Talk as well.

Further reading:
computerworld.be
Informationweek