MSN Messenger 8.0 will have Yahoo Integration

[Guest]

Hey all,

Yes, its finally gonna happen, MSN has announced that its new messenger program to be released in the first qurter of 2006 will allow users to talk to people who use Yahoo messenger.

some other features that might be included in the next version could be:

Change of Messenger Skins
• Real-time Emotions
• Messenger Built Internal Windows Media Player 10
• Pause/Resumed File Transfers (File Blocked Extension Applied)
• Detailed File Transfer (Download/Upload Speed)
• Animated Display Pictures (.gif .jpg .png (File Support under Consideration))
• Mood Status
• Faster Contact List Loading and scrolling
• Public Profile and MSN Spaces Combined
• More MSN Space features
• New Hotmail and MSN Messenger Integration
• Downloadable MSN Messenger on Mobile
• News Updates according to Location
• Top 10 MSN Music Radio
• New Stylish Notifier Pop-up
• Downloadable Skins for MSN (Contact Window & Conversation Window)
• Complete Integration with Windows XPฎ & Windows Vistaฎ Codename: Longhornฎ
• Offline Voice/Message Machine
• Animated Buddy Icon Helper
• Display Picture Ratings

also there were invitations to be a beta-tester for this, however there are none left anymore.

[megri]

MSN is facing competition from Google talk, which is yet a small baby so far Messengers are concerned. So MSN will lead in this area

[Guest]

all the same i found googletalk to be really useful... the voice clarity is amazing