Yahoo! Messenger for Vista version is no longer available

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Yahoo! Messenger for Vista version is no longer available


As of today, Yahoo! Messenger for Vista will no longer be available for download from the Yahoo! Messenger website. We have discontinued stand-alone releases of the Yahoo! Messenger for Vista application in order to focus on delivering one Windows experience that is optimized for all Windows users.

This decision will help us increase efficiencies on our team and deliver one consistent, full-featured product for all of our Windows users. Our application was based on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) platform which we will continue to experiment with and invest in. The knowledge we gathered from developing Yahoo! Messenger for Vista will also help us improve future versions of our Windows software.

We realize many of you have been with us from the first launch of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista and we want to thank you for trying it and providing great feedback with each new release.

If you’re using Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, you can continue to use it however we will not add any more features or provide product support. To enjoy full Yahoo! Messenger functionality including photo sharing, webcam and chat rooms, we recommend downloading and installing the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0, which also works on Windows Vista:

http://messenger.yahoo.com/download/win

Thanks again for your support of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista. We look forward to receiving your feedback on the new Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 (just go to the Help menu and choose “Send Feedback…”).

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

[Ven0m]

Yeah, I saw this coming. Didn't expect it so soon, but they actually should of invested more time in Vista Messenger, but I guess with their development team wanted to focus on the main Windows version of Messenger (not that it'll do much good really).

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they discontinued the Mac version of Messenger too (although, this is seemingly more unlikely).

[Dermot]

They should just rewrite Messenger from scratch just not WPF as it's a complete hog and limited.

If Yahoo was smart they would jump on the MONO train and build one Messenger that will work on Linux, MAC, Solaris, Unix

[KremlinMan]

that's bad. YM 9 isnt that good. sometimes it laggs.

[Ven0m]

Not here. Try updating to the latest version.