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June 26, 2007 on 4:20 pm | In Vista version |

Wow, it seems like every other comment on the blog these days can by summarized by a commenter named “Fitz”:

“yahoo, pls. don’t abandon your project (messenger for vista).. it’s so cool”

Don’t worry Fitz, we’re working harder than ever on Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista.

You will be able to download a Beta version in the coming months. I wish I could be more specific with a release date at this point because I know how much anticipation our users have had for the entirely new Vista-powered interface.

As soon as we do have a more firm release date, our blog readers will be among the first to know. In the meantime, make sure you’ve provided your email address on our Messenger for Windows Vista page so you won’t miss it.

The work our team is doing with Vista’s new interface technology, WPF, is pioneering, but has taken time to perfect. As we discover the best ways to create WPF applications, we also take time to share knowledge and techniques with other software developers. At the Microsoft MIX conference in May, developers and designers from the Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista team presented some of their work. Check out the videos below for some behind-the-scenes looks at the making of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista.

Design talk on Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista (1:21)
Yahoo! joins Kalani Kordus, Lee Brimelow and Mark Ligameri of Frog Design to show early prototypes, concepts, and the development process.

Tech Talk on Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista (1:00)
Josh Jacobson provides background and a product demonstration, and Eric Burke discusses WPF tips and tricks (WPF tips start at 15:30 in the video).

Again, thanks for your continued patience and interest in the upcoming Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista. We can’t wait to let you take it for a test drive.

Josh Jacobson
Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

P.S. - We’re always looking for talent to join our Messenger team. Check out latest job listing for a Messenger for Vista visual designer.

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  1. Well, at least we know some one IS actually reading this thing aside from Sarah. And it’s good that you guys are atleast telling target users that you’re working on the issue… Really. If anything that all these people want to hear, is that you guys are at least working on it. Kudos to Yahoo! for that much…

    Comment by Janus — June 26, 2007 #

  2. Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista: You will be able to download a Beta version in the coming months? What happend to a beta release in the second quarter?

    Bots: In the next few weeks, we will begin rolling out new security measures to distinguish the humans from the machines. That was said four weeks ago.

    I suggest To all the readers of the messenger blog to stop making comments. By not making comments on the messenger blog, They will work harder to make their users happy. Since it would look like nobody cares anymore about yahoo.

    Who is with me?

    Comment by Chris — June 26, 2007 #

  3. People have so much anticipation from it because they believe it will fix the voice chat problems they have been experiencing in Yahoo! Messenger. Voice Chat in chatrooms simply refuses to work.

    The voice codec used in Yahoo! Messenger for Voice Chat in chatrooms is incompatible with Vista. If you could have atleast fixed that or provided a way to fix it people wouldn’t be crying over it so much. Vista had been in the works since 2005 and yet Yahoo! never figured there Voice Chat might not work in chatrooms because of the codec programs.

    Some users said by downloading this updated TSP Codec file will fix the problem (http://www.bytescribe.com/downloads/tsp_codec_install.exe)
    But that didn’t help.

    So if you can atleast provide a patch or fix specially meant for vista users which fixes the Voice Chat Of Chatrooms, everyone will be happy.

    Comment by Rick — June 26, 2007 #

  4. On Another note, just 3 more days to go before June ends and new month begins. When Yahoo! made an official statement on the less than stable state of chatrooms they mentioned they will be introducing new Chat servers this month but nothing has happened, its the same ol’ story everyday, bots, booters and more bots. I don’t know why Yahoo! gives us hope and then just disregard whatever they promise.

    Was this just a ploy to shut us up so that we don’t make an issue over it in every blog comment ?

    If you officially acknowledge a problem with one of your services (chatrooms) and vouch to fix it within a specific amount of time (in this case to fix it in this month), please do so otherwise don’t give us fake hopes.

    Comment by Rick — June 26, 2007 #

  5. Rick, its true that they want use to stop making an issue in every blog.

    I do think we should stop making anykind of comment. Yahoo wants are comments if they didn’t they would shut down comment postings.

    Please everyone stop making comments on the messenger blog.

    We asked for a fix for chat rooms, Mac version upgrade, and vista messenger. They gave us web messenger and mobil messenger.

    THEY DON’T CARE WHAT WE WANT.

    Comment by Chris — June 26, 2007 #

  6. Thank you for responding to all the comments by posting the blog about vista!

    but please hurry we are dying to get vista messenger!

    Comment by Ethan — June 26, 2007 #

  7. i hope the beta is out real soon and btw yahoo messnger service seems to be broken i kept gettin disconnected all day and now since about an hour ago i cant log back in i checked the yahoo site and i see some of my buddys are on but i cant log back in i tried a long time then started getting a messege that i had to confirm i was the owner of the acnt i tried but it kept saying my email was invalid i pay for that email so its real please fix this problem

    Comment by catherine — June 27, 2007 #

  8. ENOUGH TALK talk is cheap thats all that seems to happen yahoo are like we will do this we will do that LOL never happens the spam issue is 200 times worse than last month i hope it brings your servers to there knees :-) then and ONLY then you will be foreced to do something

    Comment by LMAO — June 27, 2007 #

  9. I love how they mention they are hiring…. maybe someone with some actual programming expertise will join the team.. then MAYBE some software will ACTUALLY GET FINISHED… i wouldnt hold my breath though

    Comment by Jeremy — June 27, 2007 #

  10. So, are the servers actually going to be fixed? It would be nice to know what is currently going on and how long it will take to fix. I am getting frustrated with the poor service - sure it is free, but I still expect something to work when it is supposed to.

    Comment by Seth — June 27, 2007 #

  11. Well, more waiting, but glad Josh did try to give some answers. Thanks Josh.

    Comment by Amy — June 27, 2007 #

  12. as a vista owner yes the voice is good in chatrooms but yu have to have the true speech codec and y tunnell pro installed . Again however yahoo promised something and didnt deliver that is the vista messenger beta which it said would be out in the second quarter. For anyone who wants voice in chatrooms i suggest the y tunnel download because evidently yahoo has again failed to deliver and doesnt look like they will anytime soon so much for big things happpenin in june maybe they meant june 2008

    Comment by steve — June 27, 2007 #

  13. […] minunatul anunt de azi despre Y!M Vista (care, din 2006 si pana acum, nu au reusit sa-l termine!), ma trezesc ca nu […]

    Pingback by Sick of Yahoo! « Dragossh’s Blog — June 27, 2007 #

  14. Please let us know what’s going on with the service. Having an ongoing issue but not posting *anywhere* to let users know there’s an issue is unhelpful.

    Comment by miker — June 27, 2007 #

  15. All these problems people (yahoo disconnects, phone in and out disconnects, etc.) are having and the wait for the Vista version (just to use voice conference) is making computer users upset.

    Many of us users also work in or run businesses and all these little issues have a profound effect on Yahoo!’s reputation where business is concerned.

    So please put a priority on fixing these issues to regain and restore the trust that Yahoo! users and consumers had and enjoyed once had.

    Comment by Scott — June 27, 2007 #

  16. This is soooooo funny. Microsoft marketed in the early days of Vista how easy it was to program for using XML. We can all see that is not nearly as accurate as foretold by the Great And All Knowing Bill Gates of Microsoft. You really need developers?

    I got an idea. Why don’t you develop an OS that doesn’t require you to code a simple messenger application for 8 months just to get to BETA status?

    Comment by RegisteredTrademark — June 27, 2007 #

  17. Yeah, I said it. I said SIMPLE. Think about that. Vista users want a VOICE CAPABLE messenger. They don’t need all that other stuff, and to be quite honest, most of us don’t need all the features either. I use messenger for messaging. That’s it. Concentrate on adding voice, then dress it up and use that godforsaken autoupdater for something other than a auto-downgrader like you’ve been doing.

    Comment by RegisteredTrademark — June 27, 2007 #

  18. windows vienna will be out before yahoo releases a vista version lmfao

    Comment by LOLZ — June 28, 2007 #

  19. I’d have to agree that a LOT of the antcipation over the Vista messenger is purely because the TrueSpeech codec isn’t in Vista so voice chat doesn’t work in chat rooms and conferences.

    The only ways I see for Yahoo! to fix the codec issue for all users is to licence the TrueSpeech for distribution with Yahoo! Messenger, or completely rework the voice system to use something else. The latter would lock out older versions versions of messenger, but this has already been done on a smaller scale before. Starting in YMsgr 7, voice in pm (which used TrueSpeech) was reworked in to the PC2PC calling feature. I don’t see why the same can’t be done for voice in chat and conferences.

    Comment by Infinite_Luta — June 28, 2007 #

  20. […] S-a tot votbit odată cu apariţia windows-ului vista de o versiune a messengerului specială pentru aces sistem de operare. Au apărut poze, filmuleţe dar nu şi o versiune concretă. Am citit astăzi o ştire importantă pe blog-ul oficial: o să apară în următoarea perioadă o versiune BETA. […]

    Pingback by BOGDAN’s BLOG - YM + Collection » Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista BETA — June 28, 2007 #

  21. yahoo management should take into consideration ….yu hired a team to deliver a vista messenger and users where told it would be out in the second quarter…. when yu told the users this the product should be made available within that time frame it should have been ….everyone deals with deadlines in our fast paced society and they failed to deliver seriously i would consider a job openin for a new team if it would have been one of us out here in real america we would have been canned and unemployed

    Comment by steve — June 28, 2007 #

  22. If it’s going to be a few months before even a Beta, at least release an update to the current messenger that fixes the File Save dialog you get when someone sends you a file. Come on, Windows 3.1 was pretty much gone over 12 years ago.

    As far as the delay, I’m in software development too, we dropped the ball by not having a completely Vista compatible version of our software when Vista was released. However we are a 4 person company and didn’t have the resources to test on the Beta’s of Vista. But come on, you are Yahoo. Nuff Said!

    Comment by LordDewi — June 29, 2007 #

  23. I just bought a new computer that already had vista on it, yahoo is saying 8.1 is compatable but I can’t even get it to download!!!! Is anyone else having problems like this…it get’s to 5% then tells me there is a problem, anyway to get iot to download??? I kinda need it for school, almost all my professors for my online course require it.

    Comment by Sarah — June 29, 2007 #

  24. Lets just show Yahoo what it is like, to wait for the Mac & Vista messengers, and all of these so-called updates, fixes WHAT-EVER… Lets just stop using the “so called” messenger, chat, etc…. I stopped using Yahoo before and I can again and will if they DON’T DO SOMETHING SOON!!!!

    Comment by Brandon — June 30, 2007 #

  25. i have 8.1 on my vista it works okay i guess wish the freaking vista would drop already been lookin forward to the vista yahoo since CES

    Comment by PR10WRX — June 30, 2007 #

  26. I wonder what the system requirements will be for this new messenger? Does yahoo realise that a lot of computers have been sold with the minimum system requirements e.g. Celeron Processors and 512 megs of ram? Where does that leave everyone else? How does that make the programmers feel knowing that they are creating this messenger for a unknown percentage of Vista users?

    Comment by Calypso — June 30, 2007 #

  27. I am so very frustrated about Vista and YMessenger. I love to hear the discussions in the Govt. chat rooms, but alas, I cannot hear anything. Can this be fixed now on 8.1 or do we need to wait for the new VistaYMessenger? Will the Vista Messenger allow sound in the chat rooms?
    Oh yeah, btw, it is very annoying when some goof ball gets on the mic and plays music when the rest of the room is having a conversation. Any way to stop that? Sending music to someONE is ok, but playing it across a mic into a room sucks.

    Comment by pj_parker2003 — July 1, 2007 #

  28. The question is: will Vista Messenger ever be released? They seem to delay it.

    Comment by Dragos — July 1, 2007 #

  29. yeah it’ll come out sooner then later i’m betting it looks insane but my worrys are alot of my friends dont have vista so will it YM Vista be able to send files and webcam same as YM8.1 or will the other user have to use Vista as well

    Comment by pr10wrx — July 1, 2007 #

  30. I am curious about something. When I had my old computer loaded with Windows XP, I could use my microphone and earphones in the Chatrooms. Since I got my new computer loaded with the ‘whiz-bang’ program ‘Vista’, I can’t hear what’s being said in the chatrooms and no one can hear me. Will the new Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista resolve this issue? Consequently, I have yet to find a chat client that this has NOT happened to. Apparently nobody saw this coming with the advent of Vista.

    Comment by bluegreydude4 — July 2, 2007 #

  31. The problem here is Yahoo! wants to release a perfect messenger for Vista and this must be what is dragging their feet.

    Give the Yahoo! fans what they want; a beta build. All of us know betas will have bugs and releases will correct those as they happen.

    At least with releasing a beta now, Yahoo! users will realize that Yahoo! is trying to appease folks and not keep them in the dark.

    Just my 2 cents

    Comment by Scott — July 9, 2007 #

  32. Well, while developing, do add a search-inside-archive capability too, please. Right now it’s quite impossible to find what someone said without knowing the exact date of the convo.
    Also on the download page it realy wouldn’t hurt to have a build number somewhere. I know I have Messenger 8.1 and I can check my version in Help/About, but that doesn’t help me if the download page doesn’t state current build.
    Having said that I’d like to support Yahoo team in building their cool client also for Vista. Just please don’t fork it in a way to become incompatible with latest versions of pre-Vista versions.

    Comment by Odyn — July 11, 2007 #

  33. I been wait for 2 month and still didn’t release the beta….come on guy!!!

    Comment by Zack — July 13, 2007 #

  34. This Whole Yahoo Vista Is Gettin Boring Quick I Bet It’ll Be Out In Like Sept Or OCT Maybe Even Nov Just The Beta

    Comment by pr10 — July 14, 2007 #

  35. yup….vista version…never…mabe this is the time when you should put coming soon….not 7 month ago…and 8.1 version…it keeps crushing on vista…and my computer is freeazing when i’m trying to use the voice future…so…i think i’m going to use msn from now on…shame guys…

    Comment by Corpel — July 17, 2007 #

  36. release a beta version now. please. thank u

    Comment by wehh — July 18, 2007 #

  37. i am going to MSN as well sorry yahoo but you took to much time for even a beta when you said it would be out 2nd Q

    Comment by pr10wrx — July 18, 2007 #

  38. I can’t say I am going to stop using Yahoo Messenger because of Yahoo Messenger for Vista delay, but I have to say I am GREATLY disappointed. The “Yahoo Messenger for Vista coming soon” website was out in January and it’s mid July now. I mean please, you guys shouldn’t of even talked about it, if you knew that is going to take this long. For serious company like Yahoo (was) this should not happen. The excuses you are trying to through at us users, just don’t buy it.

    Comment by Mike — July 19, 2007 #

  39. Agree with Mike. I was much impressed by the YIM for Vista demo. Two months back, I took efforts to export my contact list Windows Live Messenger and import them into Yahoo Messenger 8.1. I had thought at that time that YIM for Vista will be coming out “soon”, since it had already been a long time from Jan. Unfortunately, Yahoo proved me wrong. I have lost my patience and switched back to Live messenger today. Hopefully, I will still have interest in the new YIM, when the *Beta version* comes out in another few *months*. Too disappointed at Yahoo.

    Comment by Ziru — July 20, 2007 #

  40. yahoo,

    can you please update as again on what’s happening now on y! messenger for vista. thanks

    Comment by mingz — July 21, 2007 #

  41. recently i have purchased hp laptop with window vista loaded when i have purchased.recently i have come to know that vista doest support yahoo voice chat i was disappointed
    waiting for yahoo messenger for vista.

    Comment by smitha — July 24, 2007 #

  42. Yahoo will be loosing a lot of customers…..those long time users. I have been using yahoo messenger since last 6/7 years or more than that…cant even remember…since i baught new pc with windows vista a year ago..I have been paying a lot of money for telephone bills. becasue yahoo was the only way to chat with my gf in overseas. and now…yahoo is disable…it doesnt have voice in vista. I am really dissappointed with yahoo as well as on Microsoft too.

    Comment by Nahid — July 26, 2007 #

  43. Google and Yahoo are rivals. I wouldn’t doubt that Google purposely worked with Microsoft in order to screw Yahoo chat.

    Comment by Andrew — July 31, 2007 #

  44. This is so frustating that yahoo still hasn’t release the visa messenger. from 5th of August, I am moving to MSN Messenger and yet it is very troublesome moving all my contacts there. I am quite dissappointed with you yahoo. Have been an user of Yahoo messenger since the first time it was launched….but today, its so sad that Yahoo just dont really care about these.

    Sorry for these post anyway.

    Comment by Nahid — August 1, 2007 #

  45. yawns no new news for vista weak

    Comment by pr10wrx — August 8, 2007 #

  46. This is stupid, I want to use yahoo messenger again, but I have been waiting, since January, for your “COMING SOON!” Vista messenger to be released as a BETA (Not even a BETA??!!!!! At least one of you leak SOMETHING!!!!). I use WL Messenger, and even though their interim beta (8.5) is not a big step for the majority, it’s a massive step in comparison to the developers at Yahoo, because you havent done ANYTHING. We are In Q3 now. i suggest you take down your site, or edit it in such a way so that you can stop misleading the faithful/stupid remainder of customers by saying COMING SOON. OR AT LEAST have a blog site where you keep us mildly updated on what you’re doing, at the moment, getting news from you is like asking a man with no arms to give me 5, only harder. It’s an IM, not a groundbreaking-supersized-power OS! Come on, this is terrible, and you’re losing popularity by the day. Do something about it!

    I’ve said what I need to, now i’m calm.

    Comment by Dale — August 9, 2007 #

  47. damn dale lol its okay buddie they dont care about users lmfao it’ll be up when its up try in 08

    Comment by pr10wrx — August 16, 2007 #

  48. I wouldnt have bought my laptop with vista if I would have know that Vista didnt support voice in chat.I cant believe that Vista was released with out all the bugs being worked out.

    Comment by hydro — August 16, 2007 #

  49. I wish they would release messenger for vista, I have not been able to go into chat for months, because i can not get voice. Pease hurry up and release yahoo messnger for vista

    Comment by gregtsa — August 17, 2007 #

  50. Someone needs to make a page 2. These comments scroll down too far.

    Comment by Dwight Stegall — August 18, 2007 #

  51. Here we are a month after my last post and still we have NOTHING from Yahoo on a Windows Vista-capable chat client…Guess you get what you pay for! If it weren’t for the fact that none of the other chat clients that I’ve tried work with Vista either, I’d go running to any one that would work! I work in customer service and all I can say is shame on you for building up customer’s hopes and then dropping the ball!

    Comment by Mark Foor — August 19, 2007 #

  52. What is the latest? Can you throw us a bone?

    Comment by None — August 22, 2007 #

  53. All these problems people (yahoo disconnects, phone in and out disconnects, etc.) are having and the wait for the Vista version (just to use voice conference) is making computer users upset.
    So please put a priority on fixing these issues to regain and restore the trust that Yahoo! users and consumers had and enjoyed once had.

    Comment by Scott — June 27, 2007 #
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    I totally agree with Scott and all other users losing patience in the sooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooooooooong wait for the Vista Version. No wonder why you are losing market in front of Skype and Windows Live Messenger, folks !

    Comment by cosmin2007 — August 23, 2007 #

  54. Josh Jacobson, Where is messenger for windows vista?

    Comment by jay — August 23, 2007 #

  55. What makes you all think that the “new” messenger for Vista will fix all your problems? Because it’s new? Think again!
    I know you all are anxious to try the new messenger, I am too, but not that desperate. It will come out when it will come out, that’s it…
    The only problem with them was that they rushed things a little, maybe because they were too anxious and never estimated exactly how much work needs to be done for launching a stable product (even beta).
    Nobody ever forced you in using Yahoo, well at least I wasn’t, so what’s the big deal with choosing something different?

    Comment by Mike — August 24, 2007 #

  56. WOW, u guys havn’t even released ANYTHING so far, i mean you claimed that you will release the yahoo messenger for vista on quarter 2 of the year, which is april, may, or june, but its like LATE QUARTER 3 RIGHT ABOUT NOW!!! I mean atleast tell the public what’s going on, if its going to be delayed or something, instead of keeping quiet. WOW u guys at yahoo r seriously dumb, for now, i sujest people use WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER 8.5, I mean, they already passed yahoo messenger, and are going to release 8.9 soon, meaning they will kill you guys if u dont do something and fast, not to mention aim messenger, which prefers to keep it simple, but already has tabed chats and such. So my advice, DO SOMETHING FAST!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by Kartik — September 3, 2007 #

  57. WLM 8.5 Beta 2 has been released…Odd. Yahoo Messenger for Vista 9.0 beta 1 has not been released yet. But it’s “coming soon!” people, like they said in January. Why announce a program that’s made of air? Can you not update us AT LEAST once a fortnight? Have your PC’s broken down, so you can’t contact the outside world?
    Have the coal mines that you work in collapsed on you, and you can’t get out?
    Has a secret task force from Microsoft infiltrated your base and killed the main Yahoo Messenger programmers, therefore rendering your project useless?

    All, ALL of these situations are more plausible to me than hearing…….Nothing……

    >.

    Comment by Dale — September 6, 2007 #

  58. what the hell are you waiting for?!!i’m so getting pleased with this! my voice won’t work on vista! sometimes it crashes! i’m so tired of waiting, waiting, waiting. tic tac, tic tac-time to be fast!!

    Comment by solongsweet? — September 7, 2007 #

  59. hey Josh Jacobson! Just tell us…will this version be available in 2007. Or do we have to wait until 2008? I am really tired to google this version every day!
    Thak’s!

    Comment by Corpel — September 7, 2007 #

  60. i wanna hear about vista AGAIN! please! and thank you!

    Comment by ui — September 10, 2007 #

  61. O.K.
    Adding my input- Been waiting patiently since the big video about Yahoo Messenger for Vista in January. Seems like you all forgot about us Vista users? 4nd quarter 2007? Is it going to be next year? Vista itself has been RTM since November ‘06, tired of waiting without even a tidbit for months- what’s up Yahoo?

    Comment by Jeff — September 11, 2007 #

  62. well i think yahoo has really dropped the ball on this one, it was promised (in BETA) the 2nd quarter of 2007 and its almost the 4th quarter, and also they haven’t done anything to help out the people who have vista for chat room support…IE voice, also nothing i have seen in the previews shows that it will allow you to get into chat rooms. By not Releasing that information i think yahoo is setting itself up for a fall. Since by JAN 31 2008 all copy’s of XP will be pulled from the shelves and leaving folks no choice but to upgrade….. Just my 2 Cents

    Comment by G-Rock — September 15, 2007 #

  63. Dear Jacobson and Yahoo Messenger For Vista Team,

    My name is Robert and i’m not here to complain or be nasty.I’m messaing today to find out if Yahoo Messenger For Vista will be ready soon.I myslef and many others whom have got new pcs didn’t have a choice of what operating system thats on our computer.Were forced to get Vista because thats whats on many computers now.I as well as many others are so excited to see and use the new messenger and start being able to use yahoo again.Right now yahoo messenger doesnt function right with Vista so the New Yahoo Messenger FOr Vista will be the one to use,I know you and the team is working really hard,but is it coming out soon because there was rumor that you pulled it out and thier will be none for visat.I hope thats not true.Will it be out soon and is there any close date of release yet at all or approximate release something to keep many people from not using yahoo.Keep up the good work I hope its out soon

    Comment by Robert — September 17, 2007 #

  64. Here is an update since Yahoo won’t provide one. I found this on CNet:

    September 14, 2007 4:00 PM PDT
    Yahoo late on Messenger for Vista
    Posted by Elinor Mills

    Windows users await Yahoo Messenger for Vista.

    (Credit: Yahoo)A CNET News.com reader served as my personal tickler file this week, asking me if I knew when Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista will be released.

    In January, Yahoo previewed a version of Messenger optimized for Vista and said it would be released in public beta during the second quarter, which ended June 30. So, they are about three months behind schedule.

    I asked Yahoo about it and here is the company’s reply: “We continue to actively work on Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista and look forward to sharing updates and information including the beta launch of the new service. We will keep you up to date on launch timing but in the meantime, information is available on the Yahoo Messenger blog and the Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista product page.”

    Comment by none — September 17, 2007 #

  65. funny how aim started its beta in Feb And The Final Was Released Today yet Yahoo Cant EVen Release a Damn Beta For Yahoo Vista Lmfao 3 mote Months till 08 Almost Been A Year Since They Said It Would Be Out IN 07

    Comment by pr10wrx — October 4, 2007 #

  66. The new AIM doesn’t use WPF so it’s not the same thing. Just think about any software written entirely in WPF which was released until now (at least a beta).. Can you think of one? I thought so.
    I don’t understand this delay, to put it hinestly, and I’m almost sure Yahoo already has a stable version by now, but they’re waiting probably for the right moment to launch it.
    If they say it’s only for Vista, then they simply can’t launch it now because that will mean “porting” to Xp as well… (not that it wouldn’t run natively on Xp also..)

    Comment by Mike — October 5, 2007 #

  67. When is the new messenger for windows vista coming out because i cannot get any voice in the chat rooms.

    Comment by Stephen — October 7, 2007 #

  68. Please someone email me about the new yahoo messenger or tell me how to get voice in chat rooms with using windows vista…

    Comment by Stephen — October 7, 2007 #

  69. its oct. we all been waiting and waiting i everytime i log in i check to see if yahoo vista is ready yet

    Comment by e.p — October 9, 2007 #

  70. ppl i already cancled the premium services i had for yahoo i mean if they cant even update us , whats the point

    Comment by gerik — October 17, 2007 #

  71. […] of the things we’ve been working on since the last update […]

    Pingback by Yahoo! Messenger Blog » Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista: Getting Closer! — October 17, 2007 #

  72. I think Before yahoo release any new Os messenger they need to fix the current one and all its exploits and bugs cause until they fix it they will have their hands twice as full and it will get to the point where people that use yahoo will abandon it totaly cause of their lack luster performance in doing their duties in kepping up with all the stuff that is wrong with the current versions that are out, as it is i am aware of one current exploit thats just as nasty as any of them and it is so easy to use the exploits even my 10 year old daughter uses the exploit so to me that doesnt say to much about yahoo, their security people also their own developers and all those who say they are on top of things, personally i think it is a total crock that they are and until they do yahoo is yet just another dimall chat client that in years to come will fall on its own sword and die.

    Comment by Larikinz — October 24, 2007 #

  73. […] will be the first to know when it is ready.Some of the things we’ve been working on since the last update […]

    Pingback by Lotekz.com » Blog Archive » Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista: Getting Closer! — October 25, 2007 #

  74. Could Yahoo! Message 9.0 support sign-in with few usernames on the same time?

    Comment by Nguyen Hoang Long — October 30, 2007 #

  75. hello
    plz where is the games ? dominos and pool and the others..
    can you hel me to find it. bcoz i dont know any thing about any thing >> oOps

    Comment by SUZAN — November 1, 2007 #

  76. i guess y! messenger for vista maybe released once vista sp1 gets released. it’s been long time since they announced the product and we all r eagerly waiting for it.

    Comment by kiran — November 2, 2007 #

  77. well i’m another whinner. i too have the vista,and have no sound in chat rooms, music rooms, can’t play games all of this is happening on yahoo.please someone help us, if we didn’t love yahoo so much we wouldn’t care !so return the love ! help us !! please!tell us how to get our sound in theses places ! what do us poor people have to do to get help with this ?????

    Comment by vicki — November 14, 2007 #

  78. I have windows vista and installed Yahoo Msg 8.0.1.421. I am not able to a PC to PC Voice nor I don’t any voice invitations. I tried to download http://www.bytescribe.com/downloads/tsp_codec_install.exe and it does even work. The error msg that I get is “computer does not support the required audio compression format”. It is shame on Yahoo that it is not able to resolve the issue. Does any one here know how to resolve it? Pls help

    Comment by Santo — November 14, 2007 #

  79. why cant yahoo jus release a freakin fix for yahoo voice chat and noone would be cryin over this stupid yahoo for vista crap which they been lying to us over a year about …yahoo is starting to suck…

    Comment by joe — November 18, 2007 #

  80. IT’S BEEN SINCE JAN. ‘07…GET OFF YOUR DUFF’S AND RELEASE THE DAMN THING !!!

    Comment by Bob — November 24, 2007 #

  81. I just viewed the atest video by Josh, and he told how we could change the color of the margin around the messenger screen, how we could change the size of the images of our buddies, and how we could see the photos we have saved. But not one word about webcam incompatibility between Yahoo and Vista. Not a word about the “new” Vista Messenger’s compatibility with a friend’s XP Messenger. Not a word about the cute additional audible emoticons. In fact, not one single word about anything that really matters!

    Comment by Jim — November 27, 2007 #

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