Yahoo! has entered the fray
Tags :Technical
Reading a recent article you can find here,
Yahoo! has put out a survey asking if users would be willing to pay a small
fee to access other IM services through a consolidation client. Now
that is an interesting twist since MSN and AOL don't like to share either.
Keep in mind when Yahoo! puts out a survey like this you more than
likely will see it as a product that they are already developing.
With that comes the following announcement
from Yahoo! at about the same time.
The upgrade, which
must be completed by Sept. 24, ensures that users have IM clients that
are compatible with changes in the Yahoo! network. For that reason, Yahoo!
Messenger users must upgrade their software by the end of September, or
risk being kicked off the system. The upgrade requirement pertains to Windows
versions earlier than 5.0, Mac earlier than 2.0, and Unix earlier than
1.02.
But Yahoo! said most of its users already
have later versions of its IM clients, and wouldn't be affected by the
required upgrade as a result. Instead, it's likely that unauthorized, third-party
clients -- a number of which use older versions of the Yahoo! protocol
-- could be cut off from the system after the Sept. 24 deadline.
Our friends at Trillian
have already put out a patch for the free and Pro version of their software
for this.
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On Thursday, September 18th, 2003 by Chris Miller
