Yahoo Messenger has been a staple of audio and text chats for a
long, long time, and video chats are now handled without problem. The latest
version of Yahoo Messenger adds enhancements to contacts and friends lists, as
well as support for newsfeeds and visual tweaks. Yahoo Messenger installs
easily but does require a free account.
Yahoo Messenger has long been used for text chats, for which it was
a favorite app. The addition of audio and video chats put Yahoo Messenger up
against a lot of other similar products, but it has remained a popular app on
Windows. Each iteration has added new features and capabilities, and added
things like radio streams, games, and more configuration options. Yahoo
Messenger integrates with other Yahoo services like email.
We've used Yahoo Messenger for a decade and it's still a favorite
messenger tool for many. With the new release tweaking some things and
enhancing others, it gets better every time. While the video quality sometimes
seems to drop more than we like, and there's an increasing number of ads for
other Yahoo products, we still find Yahoo Messenger is a go-to app.
Yahoo Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when
friends come online and to send them instant messages. It also can alert you to
new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals accounts, or when you have
upcoming events recorded in your Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger offers
firewall support, a standby mode that minimizes the program until an Internet
connection is made, the ability to save and print your conversations, and a
tabbed interface that provides quick access to your favorite stocks, news, and
sports scores.
Other features include the ability to create a chat room
automatically, stock price alerts, the ability to send messages to friends
(even if they're not online when you are), a Quick Compact mode that hides the
Messenger tools to maximize your viewing area, Messenger Themes, and voice
chat, which allows you to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet. It
also includes Launchcast Radio, Yahoo Games, and Yahoo Audibles. Using a
Webcam, you can see who you're chatting with or view the Webcam of any Yahoo
member who has granted you access.
- Version:
11.5.0.228
- Operating Systems:
Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows 2003 / Windows Vista / Windows 7 /
Windows XP64 /Windows Vista64 / Windows 7 64
- File Size:
18.48 MB
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