subject: Yahoo Instant Messenger - The Native Messenger By Yahoo! [print this page] Yahoo! Messenger is instant messaging client offered by Yahoo! that allows you to share folders and files locally with fellow users. It also serves up the usual animated emoticons, free PC-to-PC calling, PC-to-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, webcam hosting, text messaging service and chat rooms in various categories. This messenger made a landmark in the history of instant messaging service, being one of the first to include Buzzing and music status.
The OS requirements for Yahoo! Messenger are Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone, WUI, UNIX (no longer supported) and the minimum requirements are an Internet connection and a Yahoo account. It also allows you to access other Yahoo! Services with automated notifications, such as Yahoo! Mail, as soon as a new one pops up in your account
Yahoo! Messenger Features Include:
Instant Messaging: Instant message with one friend, or conference in a bunch.
Photo and video Sharing: Share the photos with your friends. Use the built-in media player to watch web videos and view photos with friends
Make a PC-to-PC call to another Yahoo! Messenger user for free (microphone and speakers/headset required) and also PC-to- Phone calls.
Send SMS to mobile phones for free.
Easily find Your Friends or invite friends for chatting.
Webcam Hosting: Make a video chatting or share live video with your friends or family (Webcam and headphone required).
Show your style with emoticons, Avatars, audibles and IMVironments
File Transfer: send file to your friends (2 GB limit).
Custom Status Messages: Set your message status as available, busy, invisible etc and also watch your online friends and their message status.
Offline messaging allows users to send messages to their contacts, even if they are offline. They will receive messages when they signed in.
There are various games and applications available.
Archiving of historical message is however not much advanced; the conversations are archived in the messenger desktop client and web messenger separately and carried over forward. Spyware and malware typically use yahoo as one of the carriers of virus. Malicious programs send virus over fie transfers, messages from social networking or specially designed messages to exploit the weak security in the client software. Users also frequently despise the uncontrolled spamming in yahoo services.
On March 9, 1998 the first public windows version, released with the name "Yahoo! Pager". It included basic messaging support, a buddy list with status message support, the ability to block other users, alerts when buddies came online, and notifications when a new Yahoo! Mail message arrived.
On March 3, 2010 the latest version Yahoo! Messenger 10.0.0.1241 (only for Windows) released. It included all basic features and some new features added. That are; several bug fixes to enhance stability and performance of our new video call feature, several of the fixes improve video calling on PCs running Windows 7.
