Microsoft has today announced it will launch a limited beta of the awaited interoperability between Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger.
The two instant messaging networks tied together will form the largest IM community of around 350 million accounts. The press release states the interoperability will go as far as:
- See online presence
- View personal status messages
- Share select emoticons
- View offline messages
- Add new contacts from either service
With the select emoticons, I imagine this is limited to what each client supports. Does Yahoo! have a goat emoticon? Perhaps the custom emoticons feature could be well used in this regard.
We should be able to sign up for the beta at Windows Live Ideas, according to the posting on the Windows Live Messenger Space.
Going by the traces of references[1][2] to the interoperability in the client we’ve seen in the last few weeks, and no direct mention of another new build or download, it looks like signing up at Ideas is all that is needed to active your account.
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