Interoperability is the holy grail of instant messaging. It’s been long promised, and long sought after by consumers. The fact that instant messengers don’t interoperate is absurd, really. Just imagine if I couldn’t call you because you used a different mobile phone network. Hard to imagine, right? Incredibly, instant messaging fans have suffered incompatible IM networks for years.
Now BigBlueBall reports that Yahoo and Microsoft have decided to make their instant messengers work together, allowing users on MSN Messenger will be able to exchange messages with users on Yahoo Messenger (and vice versus). The deal is supposed to be announced Wednesday and reportedly includes voice as well as text messages.
All I have to say is… IT’S ABOUT TIME!
Why do all my friends (local ones) have to be on AIM? *sob* Meh, I will still have to check this one out 🙂
Why do all my friends (local ones) have to be on AIM? *sob* Meh, I will still have to check this one out 🙂