Yahoo late on Messenger for Vista
Windows users await Yahoo Messenger for Vista.
(Credit: Yahoo)A CNET News.com reader served as my personal tickler file this week, asking me if I knew when Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista will be released.
In January, Yahoo previewed a version of Messenger optimized for Vista and said it would be released in public beta during the second quarter, which ended June 30. So, they are about three months behind schedule.
I asked Yahoo about it and here is the company's reply: "We continue to actively work on Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista and look forward to sharing updates and information including the beta launch of the new service. We will keep you up to date on launch timing but in the meantime, information is available on the Yahoo Messenger blog and the Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista product page."
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Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor.
switched back to XP from Vista, donno if it is going to work on XP
though.
signs of a beta 2. Maybe if Yahoo would quit trying to take down
Google and MySpace we'd have it already!
I've been posting comments requesting to know the release date or even an update for the release of their promoted product. I did this on each and every blog posting they've posted and some if not all of my comments got deleted. Until finally they posted the first update that they've put since the public acknowledgment of Yahoo Messenger for Vista. They posted release date as "getting closer." Check it out guys. I know I'm running late on this but I'm trying to spread the word out the Vista users.
One more thing, I still get a smile of relief reading the first sentence "Thanks to everyone for your enthusiastic comments on this blog..."