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October 12, 2005
Yeah Competition!
SeattlePI.com Microsoft Blog - Yahoo-MSN IM deal
Yahoo! and Microsoft ink a deal to allow “interoperability” between their services. See, right now, if you want to be on both the Yahoo! and Microsoft Instant Message networks, you have to sign up for both, and have to run both programs separately. Imagine if Sprint phones could only talk to other sprint phones...
In the near future, if you’re on one of the IM networks, and have friends on the other, you’ll be able to chat with them sans opening a new account with that other provider. This will let people choose a program based upon interface design, rather than network size.
If only they can get AOL to sign on. As it stands currently, AOL has the worst of the IM interfaces. But since AOL also has the biggest network, most of us are locked into having them as a service...
Let’s see, Google opens up their own IM service, and now that each company’s number 1 rival has a competing product, these two messaging clients will be able to talk to each other. Google, by the way, is dedicated to allowing for an “open” instant messaging standard-- they use one that anyone can hop onto. This is probably a factor in everyone’s thinking...
Posted by Andrew at October 12, 2005 12:24 PM
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