Microsoft and Yahoo IM's start talking with each other
Hurray! Finally it's out. Now you can communicate with people on Yahoo IM from within MSN Live Messenger itself and vice versa. This service is still in beta and as I understand you got to sign up for the limited Beta.
For Yahoo messenger, you can sign up for beta by going to http://messenger.yahoo.com/partners_msn.php page and for MSN you can sign up for beta by going to http://ideas.live.com site.
To get access to this service, sign up for the beta service, sign out from both IM's and then sign in again. To test it add your Yahoo ID into your MSN Live Messenger or add your friends MSN Live Messenger ID into Yahoo IM and you are ready to go.
The graphic below shows what I mean.
Obviously not all features of the IM are available when you are chatting with a person with an IM on another service (logical), but the good news is that it works!
The advantage: -
1. Intra IM communications
2. One can have only one favourite IM installed and add all the contacts in there
3. Only have to run one IM service at a time (this might not be true if you want to use all the features of the IM not available in the other IM Service)
4. I am sure you will come up with more advantages of this!
So what we need for now is a way to import all the contacts from one IM to other. Don't prefer typing all the contact information again.