Fanatic Live

Leah from the Windows Live Messenger blog made a post about Yahoo! and WLM compatiblity, a functional version of Windows Live Messenger is now able to send messages to Yahoo Messenger contacts. Also, Mess with MSN Messenger reports some facts about the functionality.

• You will only be able to exchange text messages, no files (so no Sharing Folders either), no Winks, no audio/video, etc.
• You will be able to check each others statuses, but “Away” still shows as “Online” in Yahoo! Messenger. Therefor, you have to set your status to “Busy” if you want to show as “Away” on the other end. Ah, the logic!
• Group conversations (ie. more than 2 participants) are not supported.
• You will not be able to verify the e-mail address of a Yahoo! contact, so make sure you add the right one.

Hopefully in the near future, we’ll see a version out to the public and see for ourselves.