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1. Congratulations~

   Comment by Ziru — December 5, 2007 #

2. How come no 64-bit support? That’s a bummer as I cannot use my main desktop PC

   - Brandon

   Comment by Brandon LeBlanc — December 5, 2007 #

3. [...] ymessengerblog: It’s here! It’s really [...]

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4. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR FINALLLY RELEASING IT!!!! WAY 2 GO YAHOO TEAM!

   Comment by Jonathan — December 5, 2007 #

5. [...] in this version which leaves this client nothing more than just a fancy text instant messenger. The official blog states explains these features and more are coming in future releases which I hope isn’t on a [...]

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6. Bummed as well there is no 64-bit support for yahoo messenger. Hopefully that gets fixed soon!

   Comment by Randy — December 5, 2007 #

7. [...] in this version which leaves this client nothing more than just a fancy text instant messenger. The official blog states explains these features and more are coming in future releases which I hope isn’t on a 12-month [...]

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8. [...] got an email tonight that I wasn’t sure I was ever going to get. The Yahoo! team has finally released a preview of their Yahoo! Messenger for Vista which is built on Windows Presentation Foundation [...]

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9. No audio, No Video. Shame on you Yahoo to even publish such a featureless beta.

   Comment by dc — December 5, 2007 #

10. make it work on winxp

    Comment by irene — December 5, 2007 #

11. so um, is there a trick to signing in, because mine won’t let me and i’m using the same SN and pword…what gives?

    Comment by Sarah — December 5, 2007 #

12. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LAUNCHING THIS I NEEDED…BUT I DO MISS MY MUSIC AND CHAT…BUT I AM NOT TRYING TO RUSH YOU GUYS……..TAKE A BREAK, SIT BACK , DRINK A BEER… AND TOMORROW THINK UPDATE….LOL AGAIN NICE JOB AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

    Comment by Belicia — December 5, 2007 #

13. Finally, it’s released. Looks so purdy!

    Comment by Marcus — December 5, 2007 #

14. Hmmm… what a let-down. No support for my 64 bit Vista. Why!?

    Comment by Ron B. — December 5, 2007 #

15. I’m not able to download the preview right at the moment, so if anyone knows, could they possibly give me a heads up on whether or not the “as-you-type spell checker” will be a feature than can be turned off as desired?

    I can already see myself tearing my hair out if I’m constantly being corrected on words like colour/color, realise/realize, etc., and have no way of telling it to shut its damn trap.

    Not to mention the fact that I doubt it’d be a total catch-all for internet acronyms. Will it know not to correct GTFO or DIAF or heck, MMORPG?

    Yeah, obviously I’m not thinking too much of the spell checker idea. I hate the things no matter what application it’s a part of.

    If anyone can give me some good news regarding this, I’d appreciate it.

    Comment by Apprentice — December 5, 2007 #

16. all works good but cant seem to get the sidebar gadget to work right all I get is a red X in the corner but looks great so far lets keep the features coming now

    Comment by rdstang94 — December 5, 2007 #

17. Apprentice . Yes you can turn off the spell checker I did its easy go to the down arrow on the messenger screen on the top next to min and max and close tabs and go to preferences and you will see you can turn it off

    Comment by rdstang94 — December 5, 2007 #

18. [...] Senior PM Josh Jacobson has announced the first Preview Release of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista. This new version of Yahoo! [...]

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19. This is probably the best looking messenger out there, but the performance kinda sucks, someone needs to do something about that.

    Comment by Brandon — December 5, 2007 #

20. Oh, that’s a relief. Thanks a lot, rdstang94!

    Comment by Apprentice — December 5, 2007 #

21. hi in yahoo vista can u plz make it so we can use our profile ids to im others thanx

    Comment by Jhon — December 5, 2007 #

22. I think the 1st preview in early 2007 has a better looking interface than this one. And the tab should put in the top.

    Comment by JQ — December 5, 2007 #

23. Oh… I haven’t got Windows Vista. I’ll never get Y! Messenger for Vista…

    Comment by PetruD — December 5, 2007 #

24. [...] More details (including a screen cast tour of the new features for those of you who aren’t running Vista) on the Y!Messenger blog. [...]

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25. I mean the tab should put on top of window.

    Comment by JQ — December 5, 2007 #

26. Is this is a dream? Please, somebody wake me up! We “only” waited 332 days this. Well not quite for this. I’m not sure what to say. Let me try to be nice and sum it up by saying: It looks like a hot fashion model that has IQ of 81. I certainly appreciate it that is finally out, BUT even though I understand it’s a pre-beta, the real test is limited because of the features or their lack of. It looks smooth, pretty and inviting. Not so much revolutionary but definitely innovating. I love the tabs option, probably one of the best ideas. New smileys are also cool. What I don’t like are new preferences. You can’t change them much anyway. Once the audio, video etc are released there’ll be much more to talk about. Yahoo team celebrated, they might of worked hard but I would be just a little bit embarrassed if I dragged people’s hope for the longest time. I just hope we wont have to wait another 12 months for the new beta.

    Comment by Milan J. — December 5, 2007 #

27. I have to say more complaining already? Gosh at least they gave us a preview that we can use. But I wonder if I can do IM with it cause no one I know is online I hope I can but it looks great cant wait for the final version.

    Comment by Daniel — December 6, 2007 #

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29. Guys, I can’t run the installer.
    when I open the installer, it tells me:
    “Yahoo! Messenger is unable to download the files needed for installation.
    Please check firewall settings and retry installation”
    I don’t know what to do.
    does anyone have the direct link for installation?
    Thx

    Comment by sina — December 6, 2007 #

30. I downloaded the vista messenger ,but instead of a working messenger i have BIG BLACK SQUARE appearing on my desktop !!Very dissapointing

    Comment by maersk — December 6, 2007 #

31. awesome… I knew this was coming when they stopped signups.

    First impressions: fantastic, at last a version of Messenger that works on my Vista! No avatars showing up though, I think it’s because I’m running the latest Flash (which was released from Beta the other day, and is now the main Flash download on Adobe’s site: v9 of Messenger doesn’t show avatars either. No, it’s not because my contacts don’t have avatars lol)

    I don’t care that it doesn’t have “voice, webcam, chat rooms, SMS, IMVironments, Audibles, plug-ins, and conferencing.” I never used that stuff anyway. But a working client? I’ve been waiting a year! Thanks so much to the Vista team.

    Comment by Al — December 6, 2007 #

32. I’m having the same problem as rdstang94 – the sidebar gadget isn’t working correctly, shows empty box with red x in top left corner.

    Comment by gabbers307 — December 6, 2007 #

33. [...] to test drive this app. If you don’t have patience (neither do I), look at TechCrunch & Yahoo! Messenger Blog for [...]

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34. *sigh* now I cant use it cuz its 32-bit only

    Comment by Leafy — December 6, 2007 #

35. Is there a way to import my message history to the vista version?

    Comment by Dude — December 6, 2007 #

36. 10q yahoo…same problem as gabbers307 and rdstang94

    Comment by Incognito — December 6, 2007 #

37. i have the same problem as maersk. The widget is not working properly, just a blank space with a red X in top left corner.

    Comment by Mortu` — December 6, 2007 #

38. You gave us a Happy & Sad news on same day! One you unveiled Vista version which we have been anticipating so long and second, you should have taken more care before Beta version slipped. May be I am wrong.. I didn’t find anything exciting other than GUI part.

    Hope the final version is more exciting and feature rich! Come people…! I know you can rock.. v8.0 is much better!

    Will be posting my reviews soon.. but surely not impressed and not worth the wait!

    Cheers!

    Comment by Vinay — December 6, 2007 #

39. yes yes yes !!! THANK YOU YAHOO !!! AFTER 1 YEAR you realease a pre-beta well… hope it will work

    Comment by IzzI — December 6, 2007 #

40. Error when start http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2338/2091209080_f32cc8a33e_o.jpg

    Comment by Cong Van — December 6, 2007 #

41. Hello. I did try download Yahoo! messenger for Vista preview to my pc. I noticed when i got reading and surprised warning box ” Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Preview does not support 64-bit Windows Vista” .
    Do you make two supports Yahoo! messenger for Vista supports for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista!!!????? Or did you forget to make support for 64-bit Windows Vista!!! Please make support for 64-bit windows vista toooooo!!!

    Comment by Heiska74 — December 6, 2007 #

42. Mine wont login, it just keeps saying the password is incorrect

    Comment by somedude — December 6, 2007 #

43. My question is, why aren’t chat rooms included in this preview of Vista Messenger? Are they going to be included, or are they “bye bye”.

    To be honest, for a near year’s work, there really isn’t much in the preferences department. Can’t even set your default font and whatnot. I’ll take a look in the registry and see what I can do. It’s a step in the right direction, it just needs more options and chat rooms.

    Also, a window snapping feature would be handy. I’ll be recommending this to the feedback form, of course.

    Comment by Venom — December 6, 2007 #

44. Come on man … 1 damn year for this??? This is wack … it is slower than any other messenger and can’t do anything …. why bother tell us about it… i am disapointed … yahoo disapointed this time … bad

    Comment by Smochina — December 6, 2007 #

45. At first it would not let me dl the new messenger. I had to completely unistall all yahoo products. Then it let me.
    I realize this is the pre-view. I was wondering if the full release will have the mail feature on it?

    So far I like what I see, except I miss my mail feature. LOL.

    Comment by Whiskey — December 6, 2007 #

46. Wow cant belive it it is out but why is there missin still so much like video etc cant belive it that the Team needed so much time for bring that … out. And why just a Pre-Beta do we need to wait now again such a long time till its the final or new Beta? Whats goin on with Yahoo think they like to loose Users for their Messanger.

    Comment by Longinus — December 6, 2007 #

47. Very disappointed. The version in the movie you released in February is better that this one. Even the GUI was better in that version. I kind of understand that this is only a pre-beta but come on people I can’t even select a personal status. The emoticons is the only feature well done but you have forgotten about the bee emoticon.
    Hope the next version will be better! \m/

    Comment by The Wild Wolf — December 6, 2007 #

48. Tells me the same thing…wrong user name/password and I changed it and created a whole new name and pswd and still get the same error message. What gives??

    Comment by Brown eyes — December 6, 2007 #

49. [...] you are using Windows Vista, this may be of interest to you. Yahoo is releasing their new Messenger client specifically designed for Vista. This is a preview release, so make sure you understand that bugs are to be expected. Whether you [...]

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50. Thanks! . hurry with release.

    Comment by vista — December 6, 2007 #

51. I too would really appreciate x64 support….as it is now i can’t use it

    Comment by Josh — December 6, 2007 #

52. [...] Messenger for Vista [Homepage] [Release Notes] Release: Beta Type of Application: Instant messenger Changes: New interface and lots of new [...]

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53. OMG! The Yahoo team is celebrating and posting pictures for this garbage??? They should go and hide into the hole and never come out from there. Shame on you and your project managers! What we have here is the messenger we had back in 1998 but a little worse. The preview video is basically resizing the window and changing colors, ‘wow’ I am so impressed. NOT. This messenger is Vaporware, we knew that from the beginning and it’s very clear now. Someone said that we complain too much. I don’t think people would complain if they get at least a third of what they were promised. Do you?

    Comment by Mike — December 6, 2007 #

54. x64 support! PLEASE!

    Comment by HBK — December 6, 2007 #

55. Lack of 64 bit support is a *HUGE* disappointment. I really hope another preview / beta gets released very soon with this added.

    Comment by Wayne — December 6, 2007 #

56. I have to say thank you for making available at least a preview version.
    But THIS, after one year? How come the January video/version had photo sharing, calling and other features that are missing from this preview?

    Now let’s wait another year before Yahoo! is releasing the beta version…

    Comment by Dragos — December 6, 2007 #

57. [...] Sources: the How-To Geek Blog, Yahoo! Messenger Blog [...]

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58. I can’t believe you didn’t release 64-bit support.

    Comment by Patrick — December 6, 2007 #

59. [...] December 6, one year later, Yahoo announced a pre-beta of its Vista instant-messaging app. And still no word on what took so long [...]

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60. [...] For more information about the preview release, check out the official announcement. [...]

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61. I’ll create a whole list of suggestions and ideas to post a little later here and in the feedback form for Vista Messenger.

    In the meantime, is there another Yahoo! Messenger v9.0 beta coming soon? Perhaps with some reported and infamous bugs fixed?

    Comment by Venom — December 6, 2007 #

62. Please hurry up with getting chat on!!

    Comment by speedybird — December 6, 2007 #

63. Ok, here’s some suggestions and feedback so far…

    Buddy List Window:

    1) Custom color schemes. It’s possible to add a custom option to use any color chosen by the user.

    2) Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! 360/Mash buttons in the top toolbar.

    3) Dockable/snappable window to the edge of the screen.

    4) Float over popup when hovering over people’s IDs.

    5) Chat rooms. Need to add back chat rooms, and add back a quick button for them.

    6) Frameless avatar/display picture area option in addition to the current framed one (like in the old screenshots).

    7) Inability to drag the buddy list by clicking inside the contact list, and dragging.

    6) Remember the placement and style of the sign in window.

    PM Window:

    1) Resizable text input area, with the ability to remember the text input area size for all PM windows.

    2) PM windows remember sizes (resize one window, all future windows will be as big).

    3) v8.x and below style of display pictures in the PM windows.

    4) Option to choose your message font style, and for Vista Messenger to remember it.

    General:

    1) Add a menu bar to the top to replace the drop down menu (for those whom like the older Messengers)

    2) Add all current features in Yahoo! Messenger v9.0 and v8.1 into Vista Messenger. It totally needs them.

    3) Redo the preferences window, it looks like basic.

    Overall Vista Messenger is impressive, but it needs to catch up with Yahoo! Messenger v8.1 and v9.0 to become the dominate version. =P

    Comment by Venom — December 6, 2007 #

64. I’ve very dissapointed. With only one active chat, my cpu usage spikes up to 20% just typing. Receiving an emoticon spikes it up to 17%. Opening the emoticon lists spikes it up to 53% !!!

    My computer is an AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ 3.2 ghz, 2 gb RAM running on windows vista ultimate.

    Do something about it.

    Comment by Andrei N. — December 6, 2007 #

65. You people really need to relax. This is free software and it has been built from the ground up. Give these guys a break. It is going to take time to get all the functionality implemented in this versio, which is running on very different code from previous versions. If you paid for this, I think you could complain, but you didn’t, so stop.

    Thank you Yahoo!! I am sure the final product will be great.

    Comment by Wyvex — December 6, 2007 #

66. Chalk up another disappointed, otherwise fan. All this Vista hype and then omission of x64. Ouch.

    Comment by Ogre — December 6, 2007 #

67. I agree Wyvex that what I was saying earlier only in a diffrent way. Just be glad its here and we can play with it and make it better.

    Comment by Daniel — December 6, 2007 #

68. Well, it’s been a long wait, but I think the product is still not fully cooked. Yes, it takes advantage of more of the Vista features than any other messenger out there (as another commenter said so well “it’s purdy”), but there are so many key features still missing. It’s one big step forward, but three steps back.

    I know you’re working on adding in additional features, but I sure hope we don’t have to wait another year for them!

    Comment by Jeff Hester — December 6, 2007 #

69. [...] few moments later, I found out Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Launch yesterday at Techcrunch. This is a peep version only (pre-beta) so not the whole thing is in here that you might be used to considering in other versions of Yahoo! [...]

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70. [...] Messenger Blog says that not all features of standard Yahoo Messenger is available on this version (c`mon, this is just [...]

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71. LOOK ALL ALL I HEARD WAS COME ON GIVE US A BATA VIRSION OF YAHOO MESSENGER FOR VISTA SO THEY DID AND NOW YOU R COMPLAINIg that its not good enough you should of let them finish it before they released it but you all will never be happy so if you dont like it it dont use it i love thx yahoo good job

    Comment by scp.bears — December 6, 2007 #

72. [...] More are yet to come and have a try at Yahoo Messenger for Vista and read more about it at yahoo messenger blog. [...]

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73. i m not able to log in into messenger………..

    Comment by Manish Bhoir — December 6, 2007 #

74. woooooooooooooooooooof finally it is here! woooof after a year long wait. not bad but need more improvement. now i have a faith in you guys that u wil launch new one with more features in comming year!

    Comment by parth — December 6, 2007 #

75. is the Yahoo Messenger for Vista newsgroup accessible from a nntp reader,such as OE?

    Comment by Alemaker — December 6, 2007 #

76. Gee.

    I am underwhelmed.
    Back to pidgin.
    Oh, and do try to come up with something that actually has the features people are using this service for? Thank you so much. And it would be nice if you could be a tad more chop chop about it.
    (Forgive me the kids’ language, but I have been regularly giving serious feedback, and it’s pretty much like talking to a wall. Except walls you can lean on)

    Comment by Saskia — December 6, 2007 #

77. i tried the vista messenger but now tht install the sytem machanic 7 pro it stop working and i get a error yahoo messenger .ymapp stop working

    Comment by jav29 — December 6, 2007 #

78. thnx fr releasing it. but i’m dissapointed coz their is no voice, webcam, photo sharing.. it has a nice interface but it’s slow.. when i type, it’s late.

    . I LIKE THE PREVIOUS VERSION BETTER, THE FIRST VERSION I SAW IN THE VIDEO PREVIEW OF YAHOO! MESSENGER FR VISTA..

    .y wont u release that to
    by the way… thank you

    Comment by FTZ — December 6, 2007 #

79. i get this message everytime i get a message or sending one out on the new messenger for vista version.
    “this application has failed to start because ad2mpegin.dll was not found. re-installing the application may fix this problem.”
    please advise..
    is this a messenger proble or is it something else..

    Comment by phi — December 6, 2007 #

80. .,hope you RELEASE THE NEXT RELEASES soon. coz this one is nice but boring…

    Comment by FTZ — December 6, 2007 #

81. where are the alerts when you get email?

    Comment by =bg= — December 6, 2007 #

82. great job you guys! please hurry on the next release I would really like to talk to my friends! thanks guys!

    Comment by Ethan — December 6, 2007 #

83. I think the “sidebar gadget not working” issue is because our computers are not set to en-US (I’ve peeked inside the gadget, and there are two en-US folders). If I look inside all my other gadgets, they have en-GB folders. So I think it’s a language issue.

    Comment by Al — December 6, 2007 #

84. well just great… i signed up for this like in feb, now its finally here in december and soon as i go to install it immediately says doesnt support 64 bit……….. this is not acceptable… the majority of systems are 64 bit these days and wayy to many software programs are behind the ball on this crap. Myself ive been running 64 bit for two years now and im sure its been out longer than that… i really wanted to try the new vista messenger but guess its back to myspace messenger…

    bye bye losers

    Comment by Dave — December 6, 2007 #

85. Okay. I’ve got it. Like so many others, I was disappointed by the lack of x64 support, but it’s okay. I was able to install it on a second computer with 32-bit Vista.

    I’m glad to see this thing finally exists, honestly. I was starting to believe some of the naysayers.

    Well, first things first. Look and feel, fit and finish aren’t so great. Oh well, I watched Whistler and Longhorn evolve into XP and Vista, so I can excuse the mess. Going forward in development, I’d like to see a lot more customization in the colors department. Gimme a color mixer!

    As far as usability, first and foremost… settings! I love the flyout option panels. When they start filling up with settings, then they’ll be great. Stealth settings are MIA, but I can live.

    A thought about the contact detail level. How about at the larger settings, a series of controls are added to each contact’s tile? A button for IM, one for Voice, and a drop-down for stealth settings?

    I think that would rock.

    Comment by Jim — December 6, 2007 #

86. [...] has a pre-beta Vista messenger release: Yahoo! Messenger Blog » Yahoo! Messenger for Vista: Preview Release Available! Seems to work OK, but they ARE calling it a "pre-beta", so expect bugs. [...]

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87. [...] Yahoo Messenger (preview) for Vista finally available. It looks great. I only wish I knew somebody on Yahoo so I could try it out. [...]

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88. my yahoo messenger doesnt download, gives a comment sayin “Yahoo! Messenger is unable to download the files needed for installation.
    Please check firewall settings and retry installation”
    can any1 help???? tried disabling firewall and antivirus… still no luck….

    Comment by Jojo — December 6, 2007 #

89. [...] took Yahoo almost 12 months to deliver a pre-beta build of its Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista with hardly any features and worst of all, isn’t even compatible 64-bit Windows. In contrast, [...]

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90. Some of the comments here are from real whiny babies.. i mean, come on, you didn’t even PAY for this.. they came out with YM 9, you complained.. you wanted vista.. well here it is, you still complain…

    it was many of the people here who were rushing Yahoo! to come up with a beta or a preview, and now that the team, out of so much pressure from many of you, have come up with a very simplistic preview, you tell them it’s worthless.. way to go for appreciation?

    they came out with a preview version to ask for feedback and not negative comments from you. if you didn’t pay for it, just shut up and thank the team behind this messenger.

    it’s a preview, people. LIGHTEN UP and PROVIDE FEEDBACK.

    Thanks for the effort Yahoo! we (the non-whiners) really really appreciate it! We hope to see an optimized, more functional end product!

    Comment by mc — December 6, 2007 #

91. [...] expect it to be like the final release…. its still a beta besides the Yahoo Messenger Blog says that not all features of standard Yahoo Messenger is available on this [...]

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92. [...] finally releases Yahoo! Messenger for Vista – this was one of very first prototypes, shown in Mix last year. I did not install it, however, [...]

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93. Sixty … Four … Bit … Version … PLEASE!

    Comment by Burhan — December 7, 2007 #

94. hmmm.. to everyone having issues, please be aware (and this hasn’t been commented on by Yahoo) that the version we downloaded yesterday was one of the early prototypes, NOT the version we saw in the video. (If you look inside the folder, there is a readme dated February). I don’t know why the Vista team released this early version, probably to shut us all up!

    Erik Burke says on his blog that a 64 bit version is coming, so don’t panic. Probably be here the same time as the full 32 bit one I guess.

    If you can’t get the preview working, try updating your computers via Microsoft Update, and download dotnet 3.5. The Messenger client is bleeding edge stuff, not designed for legacy use (you can use YM8 or 9).

    I don’t work for Yahoo, I wish THEY would tell us this stuff….

    Comment by Al Iguana — December 7, 2007 #

95. Why the interface is not AERO? There is the who-me emoticon

    Comment by Hermiso — December 7, 2007 #

96. To be honest i am speachless im reasonable and understand this is PRE BETA but….. it does not even have the minimal things yahoo has no voice no cam no chat no nothing if vista was in rc1 build i would be more symapthetic BUT this is a multi million dollar company vista has been out TWO YEARS good lord its sad almost that everyone has waited so long for this what will it be another 12 months for the actuall version then windows vienna will be out o dear lol yahoo what has happend.

    Comment by Karl — December 7, 2007 #

97. o yea i just woke up so excuse my typos lol and shame on you yahoo neglecting your users like this

    Comment by Karl — December 7, 2007 #

98. Well, i can understand why some are bein babies and some are not.. for me, this thing just doesnt WORK AT ALL!!!! and yah i am bitchin about it.. after all this time JUST for a pre-beta and the bugger doesnt even start-up… MSM LIVE MESSENGER works no probs at all but this, its just 1 thing after another.

    It’s made for vista.. vista x86 is installed.
    yahoo! messenger for vista.. is installed but doesnt work nor does it start.. WTF is wrong with this picture??

    ok so it’s a beta and has lots of bugs, i know this just like everyone else but for it not to start-up so each and everyone of us can help with bugs and to make it a hole lot better..

    Error msg as follows..

    Description:
    Stopped working

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
    Application Name: Yahoo.Messenger.YmApp.exe
    Application Version: 2007.11.30.420
    Application Timestamp: 47507717
    Fault Module Name: KERNEL32.dll
    Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
    Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bd80
    Exception Code: e0434f4d
    Exception Offset: 0001b09e

    I had reinstalled vista, installed updates, fixes, no chipset driver updates from MS as they fail to install (thats MS for u).

    Can anyone help with the prob please, v8.1 of yahoo! messenger just crashes after so long and its doin my head in…I’m willin try the new one for vista and help in anyway i can with bugs or what ever. thanks

    Comment by Andy — December 7, 2007 #

99. to those of you who’ve been saying it’s a BETA.. nobody on earth said it’s a beta.. jeez!!! it’s a PREVIEW VERSION for those desperate people who’ve been rushing Yahoo! for something.. well, here it is now so you can PREVIEW it… it’s not a BETA version.. does everyone understand that?

    i’m not even trying to side with Yahoo, but it’s just that they are insulted very much and it’s just unfair.. i mean if this was the beta launch, and it’s this feature-less, I would be disappointed too.

    it’s kind of strange why there are so many people having trouble with YM (even the 8.1 version) on vista.. it works like magic on my two PCs… there has to be some sort of software combination that’s lethal to YM. there should be a YM conference so people can talk about what apps they’ve installed on their PCs and see why YM doesn’t work for them. lol.

    Comment by mc — December 7, 2007 #

100. PREVIEW VERSION = PRE-beta

     Comment by mc — December 7, 2007 #

101. no x64….no chance

     Comment by Seawolf — December 7, 2007 #

102. Does anyone have an issue with IE7.0 closing down when you try to close it after installing the YM for Vista? – If not, it might be an error on my end – THANKS! =0)

     -Greg

     P.s. I LOVE THE NEW MESSENGER – I am glad that Yahoo! came out with the preview version. It looks neat and works neat. I’m really looking forward to all the features coming back, but I an sending in that feedback to Yahoo! – THANKS AGAIN!! =0)

     Comment by Greg — December 7, 2007 #

103. People bitch because after almost *one year*, Yahoo! released only a preview version of the messenger.

     I’ll ask again: How come the CES version had all the features in it?

     Anyway, Y!M Vista works like a charm on my PC and it’s definately a better experience than with Y!M 9.

     Comment by Dragos — December 7, 2007 #

104. Will not even launch….

     Receive “yahoo.messenger.ymapp has stopped working” error. Even receive this error during removal. Other apps work fine.

     Comment by BrerGoose — December 7, 2007 #

105. is only one software that not work on my Vista x64, maybe when Yahoo is buy by Google

     Comment by ion cu carutza — December 7, 2007 #

106. After waiting for almost an year, it was nice to see the app finally come out. But my problem is it doesnt even launch.
     It gives me an error and then shuts down. “yahoo.messenger.ymapp has stopped working.” Hope you guys will come up with an update that works, so that we can give some meaningful feed back. Again thank you for the product, hoping to see the update soon.

     Comment by Anish — December 7, 2007 #

107. Very good, I wasn’t expecting this one…. Great job Yahoo Messenger team!!!! I hope this Yahoo Messenger for Vista will be better from all the feedback you guys are getting. I love the the feedback button ^_^ But thanks guys!!!! You guys got all my support… Cheers and another CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Comment by My thoughts without the censors. — December 7, 2007 #

108. I get the error message….yahoo.messenger.ymapp has stopped working…. reinstalled several times and no change

     Comment by Colin — December 7, 2007 #

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111. I love it

     Comment by Aydin — December 7, 2007 #

112. [...] a pretty cool example of the effects that are possible with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Yahoo has just announced the availability of the preview release of Yahoo Messenger for [...]

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113. if you want to execute it on Windows XP install .Net Framework 3.0 its running smooth on here at the moment. However YIM for Vista does not support .Net Framework 2.0 which is why you always get errors when installing it because it requires .Net Framework 3.0 and you can obtain a copy of this from Windows Update or MSDN

     Comment by vb_packets — December 7, 2007 #

114. This preview runs on XP as well, all you have to do is install .NET 3.0. The main difference between Vista and Xp regarding this issue is that Vista uses hardware rendering for WPF applications, while XP tends to do it software (and by software I mean emulating it). Of course the video drivers you use and the directx version you have installed on your PC is very important. If your video card doesn’t support Directx 9.0c then there’s no chance for hardware rendering on Xp…
     This being said, take into account that this is only a preview… I’m not sure if the official release will be running on Xp…
     For Linux users, there’s only one thing to do… Increase the number of users for this platform.. Yahoo won’t develop anything to increase their market share by 1%… And this also applies for all the other developers.. Let’s increase our numbers and then we’ll have an updated version for Linux.

     Comment by Mike — December 8, 2007 #

115. http://www.frogdesign.com/case-study/yahoo-messenger-for-windows-vista.html

     ..this is version of messenger is what i wantt..

     Comment by frncs. — December 8, 2007 #

116. can user who has WPF framework (.net 3.0) installed on XP use this new version without vista ? if not any plans to update UI of xp version too ?

     Comment by yahoouser — December 8, 2007 #

117. How come its for only the 64 bit version of vista?

     Comment by Chris — December 8, 2007 #

118. It’s for both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista.

     Comment by Venom — December 8, 2007 #

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120. [...] Sources: the How-To Geek Blog, Yahoo! Messenger Blog [...]

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121. I keep getting disconnected. It keeps saying messenger has lost connection to the network…

     Comment by Luis — December 8, 2007 #

122. wouldn’t even launch on my pc. what’s wrong?

     Comment by dsgs — December 8, 2007 #

123. when will be the next release..
     the “complete-feautre” release.

     i hope it will be soon.

     thnx yahoo.!
     

     Comment by fitzz — December 9, 2007 #

124. WELL I GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR A GOOD JOB AND THE LOOKS OF IT AND I WILL WAIT INTELL THEY COME OUT WITH A BETTER preferences IN IT AND SOME BUTTONS TO GO TO CHAT AND TO OPEN A CONFERANCE ROOM I REALY LIKE TO SEE CREATE USER ROOMS COME BACK WITH A FEATURES THAT YOU CAN OPEN THE ROOM FROM YOUR MESSENGER AND GET THE VIOCE AND SOUND SERVERS FIXD PLEASE, THANK YOU. I USES CONFEREANCE A LOT WITH OTHER PASTORS AND FRIENDS AND IT WOULD BE A WELL MISSED THING THANK YOU YAHOO TEAM KEEP UP THE GOOD JOB AND WORK FROM PASTOR REX.

     Comment by PASTOR REX — December 9, 2007 #

125. [...] which leaves this client nothing more than just a fancy text instant messenger. Plus more the official blog states explains these features and more will be available in future [...]

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126. [...] Messenger on Vista » bloatware on [...]

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127. Hi!
     I just managed to deal with gadget problem!
     You have to turn on the UAC (user account control – control panel – users) in vista and the sidebar gadget will work just fine! enjoy it

     Comment by Incognito — December 10, 2007 #

128. This is a crappy preview, a big dissapointment. The user interface totally changed, which is more ulgy looking. The original concept looks way better. Also this thing runs very slow. Totally sucks

     Comment by carmon — December 10, 2007 #

129. how long in the future8-|

     Comment by PASTOR REX — December 10, 2007 #

130. Wow this is so cool. WHAT A WASTED OF DOWNLOADING TIME. I have to say this don’t blame Yahoo. BLAME MICROSOFT WINDOWS VISTA FOR GIVING US A CRAPPY PROGRAM.. IT IS LIKE THE CHRISTMAS CAROL WE USED TO SING IN THE NAVY. ABOUT A DITTY BAG THAT WOULND’T HOLD CHIT. I GUESS DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER. YAHOO IS AT LEAST TRYING TO MAKE A SILK PURS OUT OF A PIGS EAR.(VISTA)

     Comment by John — December 10, 2007 #

131. Dear Yahoo Messenger Vista Team,

     Wow, I am impressed, I love this messenger and the clean UI please keep it that way. Love the sidebar gadget.

     Please gives us an auto reply feature, Messenger has never had that, its about time to get it.

     Another suggestion. You guys mention it has th ability to shrink the icons on the main windown for work mode,but yet, one can still see the picture of the person he is speaking iwth in the chat window is there a way to turn that off like on other messengers.

     I mean i don’t wanna be forced to see bad avatar pics when i used to be able to disable them.

     Comment by CC — December 11, 2007 #

132. Yahoo team, I just read comments about this not working on 64 bit vista.

     Well, my bf, installed it on his 64 bit Vista Ultimate O.S. And it runs great he loves it he has only encounted one minor problem He cannot drag and drop files to send them. He gets “file not found” error. However, I am running Vista Ultimate as well and I am able to drag and drop files, but I am running the 32 bit version.

     He did say however, that if he presses the send button he is able to send files, just fine just not drag and drop them.

     Thought I let you know. I was running Vista Home, and things like webcam did not work, but all was solved with Vista Ultimate. So maybe these bugs are due to a lower version of vista.

     Comment by CC — December 11, 2007 #

133. This is the biggest let down for 2007… The preview back in January (the video) looked great, but this… meh…

     please give us back the streamlined appearance, the all graphite interface (without that glass border), Windows Vista style Close/Max/Min button

     the tilted user picture is great, the pop up emoticon is also nice, the color selection animation is also nice

     it would be nice if you implement the animation featured in yahoo search sidebar widget and the overall GUI for the login window or splash screen

     Comment by Chriswan — December 11, 2007 #

134. I agree with Chriswan about the let down. The version in the video looked far superior to this pre release. The UI on this is not to good compared. Hope everything gets back on track for this. At least release something with call and cam. I think that was the biggest dissapointment.

     Comment by AE — December 11, 2007 #

135. very dissapointing…besides the fancy look, there’s nothing i don’t see much inovations…the performance of it totally sucks…they need to do smth about it’s performance, or else, it won’t get much success

     Comment by R2D2 — December 11, 2007 #

136. DID YOU KNOW WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD A NEW MESSENGER THAT COMES OUT IN A BETA TESTING IS GOING TO HAVE BUGS IN IT AND GLITCHES THATS WHY I DONT DOWNLOAD ANY BETA TESTING VERSONS OF YAHOO JUST LIKE THE EAMIL BETA AND MY YAHOO BETA THEY LOOK GOOD AND NICE BUT DON’T NEED THE BUGS AND GLITCHES THEY IS NOT GOOD FOR MY PC THAT WHY I WAIT INTELL THEY COME OUT WITH A FULL NICE FRESH NEW BUILD OUT OF BETA I THINK YAHOO SHOULD TEST THIER BUILDS AND VERSONS BEFORE LETTING EVERYONE ELS TEST DRIVEING IT.

     Comment by PASTOR REX — December 11, 2007 #

137. To Yahoo Messenger team: Why don’t you guys email Bill Gate and ask for the code to remove that glassy border so that it looks like in the first preview and make the maximize/minimize/close buttons on the skin glow when mouse-over?
     Or maybe it’s too hard to incorporate those glowing buttons into the skin? it seems that the Windows Live Messenger team can not figure it out, too. XD

     Comment by BTA5454 — December 12, 2007 #

138. Interesting thing.

     My laptop (HP Verve, Centrino Dual Core, 2GB RAM, Vista Home Premium) can’t run Yahoo Messenger for Vista.

     My media server (Dell Inspiron, Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, Vista Home Premium) can.

     Both computers are virtually identical, except that my media server’s processor is over 2GHz while my laptop is 1.5GHz. Media server is half a TB hard drive, laptop is just over 200GB. Other than that they’re basically the same. Just can’t understand it.

     Comment by ReVeLaTeD — December 12, 2007 #

139. @pastor rex: so, we user can give them feedback, changes based on user feedbacks are more easily implemented while a program is still in preview releases

     @BTA5454: I think they already know the codes, if not, how did they make the video, if there’s no running prototype.
     I think it’s just some legal problems that hopefuly can be solved, because I seriously prefer the original look

     @YM Team: program start-up time need a lot of improvements

     Comment by Chriswan — December 13, 2007 #

140. Not bad for an “alpha,” but it still doesn’t play well with Stardock’s Window Blinds. Then again, those apps that don’t play within the bounds of Window’s skins and instead roll their own don’t play well with Window Blinds, either.

     Comment by B. McMeen — December 13, 2007 #

141. Hi,

     its nice to see yahoo has released the preview version. i jus want to know, whether the voice conference in Yahoo rooms are wokring are not, before downloading that.. please reply me… to my mail.

     Thanks a lot in advance…

     Comment by Pepye — December 13, 2007 #

142. [...] Yahoo! Messenger blog] [...]

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143. Was waiting for this launch & installed the 32 bit version, but every time I try to login, it says my password is wrong. Is there something I am missing or is it a bug?

     Comment by Rooster — December 15, 2007 #

144. @ Y! team: Besides restoring the interface to the original look, there’s one more option that we’d like to be added. That’s the ability to paste an optional picture to a contact’s avatar. Many of my female friends don’t set up an avatar, and it’s so ridiculous viewing the generic avatar as a male!
     Oh and somehow the main windows is not transparent, and the color choice is so limited.

     I wonder that will we have to wait another full year for the final version?

     Comment by BTA5454 — December 15, 2007 #

145. YAHOO

     i was really excited to experience this app when i saw in the first video preview last january (the first video preview), it is very excellent. i was waiting for it since last year.

     i was very dissapointed when i saw it. I can’t see the feautures i love like the photosharing, voice calling, some great UI’s. I hope you go back to that version and release it, and improve it

     .i hope you’ll release it very SOON, a month or two?!. i don’t like too wait for about a year AGAIN. please and thank you.

     by the way, thnx for you effort for releasing that preview version.

     STAR.

     Comment by STAR:) — December 16, 2007 #

146. All you Guys complaining about the messenger are jerks its a pre beta what do u xpect from it ITS JUST A TESTING VERSION and if u have such complaints go and suck Msn messenger or AOL or make one for urself Giving negative comments are easy koz the ppl working there are the real hardworkers and you ppl are just morons if u cant say or like it DONT GIVE UR BAD COMMENTS ATLEAST APPRECIATE THE EFFORT. NEW MESSENGER ROCKS WAITING FOR FULL 10/10

     Comment by Signature_Boy — December 17, 2007 #

147. i love this new messenger for vista i just got a brand new laptop today that i bought from dell and im using the messenger love it. keep the good work up bring the next release out lol

     Comment by Randall — December 18, 2007 #

148. Hello meri xmas to all of you!!!

     Comment by merlina_casey — December 20, 2007 #

149. You guys can’t continue to bash the people that are disliking the program. They have every right say what they disagree on about it as well as you do, thats the purpose of feedback. You can’t satisfy everyone, but yet you try to accomindate majority. Most don’t even understand why people are complaining. For instance, lets say we were all on the waiting list for 2009 camero. It was promised to be delivered towards to first quarter of the year. We were shown 85% complete and functioning prototype (photosharing/calling/nice sleek design). But yet 9 – 11 months later, you release a completely redesign of different prototype then the one that was shown. That is 25% complete? Most say, “Well it’s still beta.” Maybe you didn’t see the video. Let me refresh your memory. Watch the functionality of this one, then reconsidered what people are saying. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/520923/windows_vista_yahoo_messenger/

     But on the other hand. The guys that did love that (crying) we might as well forget having that one. Majority rules so. I like the new preview of it (Tabs own!!!!!!) and I really appreciate the fact that Yahoo! did give us something. So lets continue to give/hear feedback from both aspects and hopefully the turnout will be something that we all love. ^,,^

     Comment by Cigahy — December 20, 2007 #

150. Forgot to add THANKS YAHOO! ^,,^

     Comment by Cigahy — December 20, 2007 #

151. you morons realise that WPF can be used on XP right?

     so theres no reason this version of messenger wouldn’t work on XP, all you need installed for WPF is .Net 3.0 installed which is done so by default on Vista.

     yahnoobs.

     Comment by Danial — December 20, 2007 #

152. This is for those people who didn’t have their yahoo gadget working.
     So if you see your yahoo gadget blank with the red X at the corner, all you have to do is turn on the UAC ( User Account Control in Control Panel), then restart your computer. After you do that, you’ll get your yahoo gadget working fine. I did that on my computer.

     Comment by Maxi — December 24, 2007 #

153. u let us saw a video of an almost complete feature of Ym for vista then now you released it, it was very different from the video i saw. it was WAy different. i’ll give the 1st video preview a 95% grade and the beta version a 25% grade. see the difference?

     i’ll let u see the old video. the preview dat has a grade of 95%
     http://www.metacafe.com/watch/520923/windows_vista_yahoo_messenger/

     Comment by francis — December 26, 2007 #

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155. I cannot use the vista sidebar features !!!
     When I add the gadget of YM, it only shows transparent rectangle with an ‘X’ in the top-left corner (something like image not found).

     It has no “options” also. I have tried to drag-and-drop one of my contacts to it, but it can’t (show like not-allow process symbol).

     Can anyone help me ?

     Comment by Peter — January 16, 2008 #

156. Just got Vista so, I’m trying the new Yahoo messenger for Vista .. nice job .. do miss the webcam/music feature ..but,I understand that’s
     coming in future versions.
     If all continues to work well, I may be using Yahoo Messenger for Vista all my IM needs !

     Comment by foreverjeune — January 20, 2008 #

157. No Wabcam and No PC to PC calls
     Boring
     But It has BUZZ Its Fun

     Comment by Ramiel — January 29, 2008 #

158. Solved: This computer does not support the required audio compression format – Yahoo Messenger Voice Conference error message in Windows Vista

     This worked fine
     http://beginnerpctechnician.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-computer-does-not-support-required.html

     Comment by Lloyd G. Saturno — February 29, 2008 #

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160. im trying to sign in my ym vista… still not working… pls help… how can i get in there…

     Comment by mils — March 8, 2008 #

161. So does voice chat conference work with vista now?

     Comment by Jon — March 15, 2008 #

162. All you guys with complaints like the icons are too large…and everyhitng is too clustered, please click on this link…
     http://messenger.yahoo.com/vista_popup.php

     Its not that i am a die-hard yahoo or vista fan or something…
     But what i feel is that the guys at yahoo have done a good job for this beta version…
     All you guys that liked it…send in the feedback…
     Also all you guys who didn’t like some of its features, just say that in the feedback form that the messenger has…
     This way the team will know what we guys want and what we can do without…and we’ll have a cool new messenger application on our desktop.

     Comment by Trishul — March 16, 2008 #

163. hello… i tried the new yahoo messenger for vista.. i like the interface, and the new features.. i just want to clarify if you would add the voice feature.. and other older features of ym.. also i want to ask : when will the “fully-working” ym for vista will be released.. thanks!!!!.

     Comment by pempem — March 16, 2008 #

164. I install ym for vista preview a few days ago but a i cant sign in. It says that is enable to begin the login process and to check my network connection but i dont know where is the problem. Il also have my8.1 that works just fine but i want ym for vista working because i have windows vista. Please help me!

     Comment by oana — March 18, 2008 #

165. ok..then why my vista still cant to install this ym for vista..it was unsuccesful…how can i install this?? help me…im dying to chat with people..

     Comment by zaty — April 2, 2008 #

166. I like the new yahoo 4 vista but I’d like the webcam option …

     Comment by Irina — April 23, 2008 #

167. I have Yahoo Messenger and I have added some availibilities but am not able to clear them off my list How do I do that. I would like to delete some that I have put on the list. Can you help me with that??

     Comment by Lynda Richmond — April 28, 2008 #

168. I think I will wait for a version where you can do photoshare and get into the Yahoo chatrooms. This thing is a waste of time.

     Comment by Chris — May 2, 2008 #

169. I think this version looks kewl. But I’d rather wait until it has more features, like viewing webcam, photosharing, chatrooms and such, just like from the old versions. Keep us informed for new updates

     Comment by Lady Integra — May 6, 2008 #

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