Microsoft and Yahoo chat services are connected!

Nine months later, it announced that it would link the two top IM chat services together, eventually, Yahoo and Microsoft also turned their commitments into reality.

Yahoo interface with additional Windows Live Messenger service ( Source: Yahoo ) Last night (July 13), a trial version of a service that allows Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger with Voice users (Latest version) Connecting with each other has officially launched.

With this step, a huge user community will form, reaching approximately 350 million. Test services are launched globally with 15 different languages.

With a unique ID, users can register accounts at both Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger services. They can also know the online / offline status of all friends contacts on both networks.

Both Yahoo and Microsoft hope this move will lead to a jump in the number of people using their chat services. " There can be several million people in the coming weeks ," predicts Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's senior vice president for information, community and foreign affairs.

However, the testing process will take many months, because linking two networks requires solving a lot of technical problems. Evidence is that although the joint plan was announced by the two companies in October last year, but until now, the "newborn" products of this plan have just been released.

The handshake of Yahoo and Microsoft, according to analysts, is a direct shot at AOL Instant Messenger and a way for these two giants to protect themselves against the risk of Google Talk.

AOL has not yet made any comments, while Google claims their service " is designed to communicate with hundreds of other chat services, but there are currently no detailed plans to announce ."

Under an agreement between Google and AOL, in which Google paid $ 1 billion to own a 5% stake in AOL, the two companies are working hard to have their chat service interconnected.

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