One of my "WOW" moments from the last couple of days was seeing what an upcoming version of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista is going to look like. It has been built from the ground up on Windows Presentation foundation to have the best possible experience on Windows Vista. Hopefully the Windows Live Messenger is paying attention because the new Yahoo! client kicks butt and makes the Windows Live Messenger client look weak in comparison.
The new client will feature an optional tabbed chat experience. Where you can dock several chat conversations together rather than having a bunch of them sitting all over the screen. This experience is much like tabs in IE or firefox and you can drag and drop them around.
It will come with an integrated sidebar gadget that will allow you to see the status of selected contacts.
Changing the look and feel can be done without ever leaving the main UI.
There are some very cool new engaging emoticons with great looking animations brought to you by the use of WPF. In addition the are making some very cool value add additions like the photo sharing and fantasy football integration seen below.
This app is just way cool. Great Job Yahoo!
More details at the Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista homepage
Posted
Jan 09 2007, 07:15 AM
by
Josh Phillips
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