Back in January, Yahoo! had announced their intentions to build a Vista-specific version of Yahoo Messenger, but it so far it wasn’t materialized. Hopes slightly faded away when Yahoo! released Yahoo Messenger 9. I began wondering if Yahoo! will ever release a Vista variant of their popular instant messenger client.
Fortunately, Yahoo! was still working and a download preview of the same is available now. You can download it from here.
Vista-specific version of Yahoo Messenger has several edges over the standard version of Yahoo Messenger. It utilizes quite a few features like Vista’s Sidebar and Windows Presentation Foundation. This video will show how it actually works like:
Overall, I’m happy that Yahoo is doing something to impress their Vista crowd. I didn’t try it myself, but it looks too fancy for me. I’d assume that those fancy looks come at the cost of performance.
Yahoo Messenger Blog says that not all features of standard Yahoo Messenger is available on this version (c`mon, this is just a preview), but more and more features will be added as they near final release. Since it’s just a preview beta, don’t expect it to be bug free.
[Via: CyberNet]
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