October 11, 2005

Yahoo and MIcrosoft Instant Messengers Unite

Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to announce on Wednesday interoperability of their instant messaging programs including voice chat. This agreement wound strike a blow at AOL IM, eBays's Skype, and Google's Talk. The kicker is if Time Warner decides to go forward with the rumored joint-venture with Microsoft, you might see a AOL-Yahoo-MSN instant messaging network. Now that would be pretty sweet.