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Wonderful WPF Apps : Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Shane Morris (and others) point to the Yahoo! Messenger on WPF! demo featured on 10, which was shown at CES.

Michael Coates has done a stellar job at bringing all the news together about this in a series of recent posts

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Watch the video preview and sign up to give it a try when it's ready.

Built from the ground up specifically for Microsoft Windows Vista, this all-new version combines the reliable and easy-to-use features you've always loved from Yahoo! Messenger with the cutting-edge experience of this new operating system.

  • Instant message, voice, webcam video, and more
  • Use the integrated Yahoo! Messenger Sidebar gadget to keep up with the friends that matter most
  • Also add Windows Liveā„¢ Messenger friends to your contact list to see when they're online and IM them
  • Keep conversations organized by dragging and dropping them into one tabbed window
  • Brand new emoticons, program icons and alert sounds
  • Instantly change the look and feel of your Yahoo! Messenger interface
  • Automatic groups are created in your contact list based on your Yahoo! interests (i.e. Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football league)
Published Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:28 AM by frankarr

Comments

Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:36 PM by William Luu

# re: Wonderful WPF Apps : Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Saw this the other day on The WPF Blog (http://thewpfblog.com/?p=76), and it looks really well made.

Now to wait and see if there's going to be a WPF version of Windows Live Messenger?

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:42 AM by Tecnologie .NET (Dotnet): Sharepoint, BizTalk e .NET

# Yahoo Messenger fatto con WPF

Yahoo Messenger fatto con WPF

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:21 AM by Darren Neimke

# re: Wonderful WPF Apps : Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Don't you think that it's bloody awful that Microsoft don't lead by example and give us a nice WPF messaging client of our own?

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:27 AM by frankarr

# re: Wonderful WPF Apps : Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

darren -

what makes you think msn isnt doing this. (note i said msn)

from where i sit, ms is a platform company. i want to see platform adoption. so seeing y! do something with wpf is awesome.

kudo to y!

Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:47 PM by frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger

# Top 20 Posts for January 2007

TaDa!, top 20 posts for January 2007 . Old posts continue to be popular. My Elfamorphosis Windows Vista

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