Windows Messenger and Yahoo Messenger

[Dave Logan]

I want to be able to chat online with someone who uses Yahoo Messenger and
who doesn't want to use Windows Messenger, but I want to use Windows
Messenger, and not Yahoo Messenger. According to the Yahoo website this
should be possible, but when I try to add their email address to my Windows
Messenger Contacts list it says they can't be added because they don't have
a .Net Passport (they don't want one). Is there no way that the two
Messenger programs can talk to each other? Does one of us really need to
install two different Messenger programs?

Dave

 

[Dave Logan]

It's okay I found the answer on google - I've "upgraded" to Windows Live
Messenger. Strange installation process though because it didn't actually
upgrade it, it just installed Live Messenger so that I ended up with two
Messenger programs, and had to uninstall Windows Messenger afterwards!
Weird.

Dave


|I want to be able to chat online with someone who uses Yahoo Messenger and
| who doesn't want to use Windows Messenger, but I want to use Windows
| Messenger, and not Yahoo Messenger. According to the Yahoo website this
| should be possible, but when I try to add their email address to my
Windows
| Messenger Contacts list it says they can't be added because they don't
have
| a .Net Passport (they don't want one). Is there no way that the two
| Messenger programs can talk to each other? Does one of us really need to
| install two different Messenger programs?
|
| Dave
|
|

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi Dave,

This is actually by design. Windows Live Messenger is just MSN Messenger renamed which is an
entirely separate product and team within Microsoft. The team was actually split up (Windows
Messenger to the Windows team and MSN Messenger to MSN) in early 2002 and since then have
been separate applications.

The Windows Messenger team no longer exists now though.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[Guest]

I want to be able to chat online with someone who uses Yahoo Messenger and
who doesn't want to use Windows Messenger, but I want to use Windows
Messenger, and not Yahoo Messenger. According to the Yahoo website this
should be possible, but when I try to add their email address to my Windows
Messenger Contacts list it says they can't be added because they don't have
a .Net Passport (they don't want one). Is there no way that the two
Messenger programs can talk to each other? Does one of us really need to
install two different Messenger programs?

Dave