Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Finally Released (Beta)
It's been nearly a year since the new Yahoo! Messenger for Vista was announced, and we were promised a beautiful application that utilized the new Aero features in Windows Vista. The new client is definitely beautiful, although not necessarily useful or especially functional.
You can see that the contact list has a slick new look… you can customize the size of the people on the buddy list.
You can even drag people to the Vista Sidebar so you can easily see their status, or click on them to start a conversation (in a regular conversation window)
It's also got an abundance of bouncing, animated smiley faces for all your emoticon needs:
When you receive a message, they animate for a few seconds before going back to normal size:
If you click the icon near the bottom right, an animated "dialog" pops up that lets you choose from a number of different colors, including a pattern that looks like grass or something?
Instead of just using a picture, you can use the new Yahoo avatars, which will require you to go through a zillion pages on their website to customize it.
The preferences menu is actually somewhat hard to find… it's right between the Feedback button and the minimize button. You'll notice that some of the items have keyboard shortcuts…
They are supposed to be adding a lot more features over the next year, but I think I'll stick with Pidgin or Adium since I don't really use Yahoo messenger anyway…
Does it matter if the people I talk to have Vista or not?
I think it is sooo cool
Sadly messenger applications like Yahoo, AOL, and MSN are dying because of Trillian and Pidgin. Which are far better in my opinion.
Of course, I find the fact that Yahoo waited a full year to just release a beta version of the "new" messenger something of a sign of not caring about their consumer. Since problems or not, this is the first update I've seen on the messenger since Yahoo announced the idea to create a Vista themed messenger many ages ago.
what a disappointment after so long they finally released it and it sucks. and it doesn't look anything like the original picture looked
How did you get the sidebar gadget working?? All I get is a "missing image" icon
How can I use this messenger on XP?
(Swappy) i think it only worx 4 vista users only.
my question:
after i installed it, i can't log in eventhough i uninstalled ym8.
do u have any solutions for this?
I tried it for a short while and I truly believe the old yahoo messenger is better (and works fine on Vista). I searched the yahoo site for simple things like how to import profiles and message archive. Nothing to be found about that. As long as it is not clear if importing that stuff will work and how it should be done, I'll stick to the older version which works great (and version 8.0 also supports chatting with live messenger contacts).
I guess the older version is much better than this new one, nothing much featured in this newer version and it sucks u don't even use your web cam how was that?, Only the environment is good, u can change color, the avatar and so on, but what happened ? I guess if u can do the same feature I'm gonna give two thumbs up.!
it s cool but don't have key yahoo chat.
Great blog.
how to in vite a friend to view my web cam or request for web cam in messenger for vista
i was just spend my time to find a answer that how to start webcam but now i just read the comments some of the fellow just wrote that you can not use ur webcam..if this is true then this messenger for wista is totallyy 100% sucks….we were wating for long time now we got it but i think we got nthing like expecting..this is totallyy sucks..old one is better..no webcam wooo..huh
i like the new outlook of the newly designed beta, but if we cant use it for its purpose…. whats the point of using it???… hope they will improve it like the old messenger.
i like this yahoo msg..buh i can't make a call on this or i cant view webacam..or i ant invite anyone to view ma webcam…no webcam..nthin at all….old one is better than dizz…..
AT least u all can log in. But the first problem and the biggest problem i face is that i can not even log in in this new yahoo for vista…..