A Microsoft e o Yahoo anunciaram planos para unir suas redes de mensagens instantâneas e permitir a interação entre o MSN Messenger e o Yahoo! Messenger para que, segundo analistas, ambas as empresas ataquem o AOL Messenger e se defendam do Google Talk.
A partir do segundo trimestre de 2006, usuários do Yahoo Messenger e do MSN Messenger poderão trocar mensagens, verificar se seus contatos estão on-line, compartilhar emoticons, adicionar contatos de ambos os serviços e realizar conversas de voz.
As empresas estiveram discutindo "múltiplas parcerias por anos", segundo Dan Rosensweig, segundo o chefe de operações do Yahoo, numa entrevista com jornalistas. "Nós sempre desejamos isso, para beneficiar nossos clientes".
Yahoo and Microsoft have announced plans to make their instant-messaging services interoperable in what analysts called a shot to market leader America Online's AOL Instant Messenger and a defensive jab to newcomer Google.
Beginning in the second quarter of 2006, customers of Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger programs will be able to exchange instant messages, see the presence of their contacts, share emoticons, add friends from either service and make PC-to-PC voice calls, Yahoo and Microsoft said Wednesday.
The companies had been in talks "with multiple partners for years," with Microsoft and Yahoo in "discussions in earnest for a year," Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo's chief operating officer, said in a question-and-answer session with journalists. "We've always wanted to do this," he said. "Both of us saw the benefits for consumers."
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