Yahoo Messenger 10 Reviews

Yahoo Messenger allows user to keep up with friends, stay updated with what they are sharing on Flickr, Twitter and more. With it you can warm up your webcams.

Pros

With Yahoo Messenger, you can in touch with friends by sending instant messages, making free PC-to-PC calls, sharing photos and files, sending free SMS messages, and much more. Plus IM with friens that use Windows Live Messenger.

Benefits

Using Yahoo Messenger, you can make a high-quality video call to a friend with synched audio, right in the IM window. Within the new "Yahoo! Updates" view, you're sure to find more to talk about with your friends.

It is added an alternate view of your contact list that shows a real-time stream of their updates, including Messenger status message changes. If they've opted-in to share their updates via Yahoo!, you'll be able to see what they're saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz, listening to on last.fm, and more.

You can change languages easily. When you start up Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta, you'll notice a new language menu on the sign-in screen. Choose from 16 different languages and the buttons, menus and various parts of the interface will change to that language.

What's more, it is added a couple new ways to organize your contact list.

Interface

The interface of Yahoo Messenger 10 has changed a lot, and the style looks like the interface of MSN - compared with previous versions, this one is clearer and more friendly to experience. In additional, it is added new icon designs to the toolbar in the IM window, and you'll also find specific buttons for video calls and voice calls.

System Requirements

Yahoo Messenger supports Windows all, and it is also availabe for Mac OS X, iPhone, WUI, UNIX .

Setup

Yahoo Messenger 10 is easy to install by following its installation wizard. As a lightweight IM, it doesn't take long to finish the installation process.

Conclusion

As the most competitor to MSN, Yahoo Messenger has owned a large number of users. Though MSN users are the main part of IM market, there are more and more users inclining to taste Yahoo Messenger as its friendly features. The new version of it could bring you a new feel to differentiate old versions, definitely!