Microsoft and Yahoo Connect Chat Clients to Create World’s Largest IM Community
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As if you didn’t waste enough time LOLing with friends and lukewarm acquaintances, now your instant-message world is getting a whole lot bigger. Starting today, Microsoft and Yahoo’s Messenger users will be able to chat with each other across networks.
The companies are partnering to create the world’s largest IM community, affecting nearly 350 million accounts. In addition to catering to chat fans who want to reach more online buddies, the move has enormous business implications. Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to unseat AOL’s top position as U.S. leader in IM users, which holds 50 per cent of the chat market. But MSN Messenger is the most widely used chat client internationally.
The announcement comes as a follow-up to AOL’s deal with Google Chat in December, essentially making the two systems compatible.
As if you didn’t waste enough time LOLing with friends and lukewarm acquaintances, now your instant-message world is getting a whole lot bigger. Starting today, Microsoft and Yahoo’s Messenger users will be able to chat with each other across networks.The companies are partnering to create the world’s largest IM community, affecting nearly 350 million accounts. In addition to catering to chat fans who want to reach more online buddies, the move has enormous business implications. Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to unseat AOL’s top position as U.S. leader in IM users, which holds 50 per cent of the chat market. But MSN Messenger is the most widely used chat client internationally.
The announcement comes as a follow-up to AOL’s deal with Google Chat in December, essentially making the two systems compatible.
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