Yahoo and MSN!

Posted on July 13, 2006 | This post has 605 views

I sign in to Yahoo! Messenger and see something on the top. Guess what it was, I have been waiting for this since the time Yahoo! and MSN announced “partnership” for their instant messengers, both of which are very popular. It was announced months ago but only now it has come LIVE after full release of new MSN Messenger which is now called “Windows LIVE Messenger”.

I thought it will work without any additional steps but I was wrong, I added my Hotmail ID from Yahoo! Messenger but nothing happened, it is being offered as “Beta” right now, both from Microsoft and Yahoo so you have to join the “Beta” before it works. Here are the steps which will enable you to do so.

1. Go to Yahoo! Messenger Beta Sign up page , click “Join Beta”, Yahoo! Sign in page will come, Sign in and you are done.
2. Go to Windows Live Beta Sign up page, click “Try it”, Sign in page will appear, Sign in, read the agreements, duh! You want to do that? LOL, just click on “I agree” and you are done.

Remember to Sign out after doing the above steps and then Sign back in. If you face any problem, just drop by a comment. You will not be able to Sign in after this if you are using an old version of Windows Live Messenger since it will ask you to get the latest but I am not sure if it requires the new 8.0 Beta of Yahoo! Messenger or it can work with the old 7.x version of Yahoo! Messenger. Test it with the 7.5 version of Yahoo! Messenger if it does not work then download the 8.x BETA version. Here are direct download links to Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (BETA) and Yahoo! Messenger.

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