Microsoft and Yahoo to link IM networks
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft and Yahoo Inc. will make their respective consumer instant-message networks partly interoperable in the second quarter of next year, the companies announced Wednesday.
This is the first such agreement between major providers of this extremely popular online service, which allows users to communicate in a variety of ways, such as text-message exchanges, PC-to-PC voice chats, voice-over-Internet-Protocol phone calls, photo sharing, file sharing, Webcam video transmission and gaming.