Earlier this week I posted about the development of how Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger buddies can communicate together after over 18 months of hard work on the project. I explained how this was a significant change for the IM world, but today I have leant some disheartening news about the new feature. Currently there are some limitations:

• You can only send text messages, nothing else.
• Different statuses in the programs mean they may display a different status on the other end.
• Group conversations are not supported.
• You will not be able to verify the e-mail address of a Yahoo! contact. This means messenger will not tell you if your address is real or not.

Personally, this makes the program seemed rushed, just getting something out there which has not been probably done. I think with more time it could be made a lot better, but this news suggests that the development on this feature will still be occurring after the official release of Windows Live Messenger. More news on this when it comes.