Well it appears that "just days away" was a bit of an over estimate! The integration between Windows Live and Yahoo! Messenger launched in beta last night.
Contacts on the different services are currently able to do things including sending each other messages, emoticons and nudges - and can even see each other's personal messages. The only feature missing at the moment appears to be the ability to share files. Apparently there is no noticeable delay when communicating between Windows Live and Yahoo! Messenger.
As the interoperability is being released in beta it needs to be enabled for your account here, at ideas.live.com. As well as you needing to be on this beta to be able to contact Yahoo! buddies any you do want to chat to must be using the new beta version of "Yahoo! Messenger with Voice", and enable it for their Yahoo! account by joining the beta here.
But if you are wanting it enabled for your Windows Live Messenger account you better hurry: apparently to begin with only 500,000 users will get it enabled. Then more people will be able to use it by recieving invites from existing users, as was done with the Windows Live Messenger beta. This is to make sure that the transition to using MSNP14 will go smoothly, and the number of users should be slowly increased until everyone will have it enabled.
However, beware if you are currently using Messenger Plus! Live - by joining the beta you upgraded your account and enable the new protocol (MSNP14) which conflicts with Messenger Plus! Live. Nicknames become replaced with numbers: Windows Live Messenger contacts' names become a "1" and Yahoo! Messenger names become "32" in things like the event viewer. As we previously announced, Patchou plans to release Messenger Plus! Live 4.01 soon and he has said that this issue will be fixed in it, and that it should be out this weekend.
This is only the first version of the integration and Microsoft and Yahoo! plan to add a few more cross-network features in the future.
>> Sign up for the beta (with a Windows Live Messenger account)
>> Sign up for the beta (with a Yahoo! account)
>> More info at Windows Live Messenger team blog
>> Info about changes within Messenger by the MSNP14 upgrade
>> Microsoft press release about the interoperability
>> Download Windows Live Messenger (version 8)
>> Download Yahoo! Messenger with Voice beta (version 8)
>> Info from Patchou about Messenger Plus! Live 4.01
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And for your information there are conflicts with Messenger Plus! Live 4.0, you just probably haven't experienced them. And I think you answered your own whatever (I don't think it was a question) when you said that some features are missing from the BETA. As you said it's a beta so of course it's not gonna work 100% properly and features are missing.
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