Y! Vista Launched

[iMav]

They say late is better than never. But is late worth the wait? That's the question for Yahoo, which late last night released a preview of its instant messenger client for Windows Vista.

The wait has been a long one. Yahoo showed off the IM client back in January during the Consumer Electronics Show.

Yahoo's belated IM client taps into Windows Vista technologies, including WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). Yahoo Messenger for Vista is a real showcase of WPF capabilities. The visuals are stunning, with elements resizing and repositioning smoothly and beautifully. Finally, from seeing Yahoo Messenger for Vista in action, I can see some of the vector-based benefits promised for the operating system.

End users can drag and drop conversations to consolidate them into single views or even place buddy windows onto the Vista Sidebar, to keep watch over conversations. End users also can drag-and-drop files up to 2GB and send them via IM.

The IM client is a preview, and it's not feature complete. I downloaded the software around 11:15 pm EST last night. There are definitely rough edges and not as many features as I had hoped for. But the visuals are slick for sure.

Federation disappoints. While users can send IMs between the Windows Live and Yahoo networks, basics like buddy icons and many emoticons aren't supported. Also, the preview client lacks features regular Yahoo IM users would come to expect in the standard 8.1 version for Windows.

Yahoo still has work yet to do, but at least the developer is doing the work. I can't say the same for Microsoft.

Microsoft already is testing Windows Messenger 9, which by all indications won't tap into WPF, at least not anything like what Yahoo's messenger does. The question: Why the hell not? If anybody should be developing showcase Windows Vista applications, it should be Microsoft. If WPF is so great, then show us the money, Microsoft.

Microsoft would do better for itself and its developers by setting an example. There should be at least a dozen Microsoft applications that really tap into Vista capabilities, starting with WPF. Yahoo shouldn't be the development leader here.

Yahoo is a slow leader, at that. I asked for clarification on what took so long from the January announcement to the December preview and got an e-mail response from Josh Jacobson, senior product manger for Yahoo Messenger for Vista. "We've spent a lot of time optimizing WPF as it continues to evolve," he said.

Jacobson is right when he says that, "Our engineers and developers are pioneers in this area, and are pushing the technology in new directions and sharing best practices that others in the industry can learn from."

[Link to Yahoo Messenger for Vista]

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[cool_techie_tvm]

Thanks for the info and the links

[ravi_9793]

great news........
I am excited.......

But can it be used on XP............I want same on my XP.

[naveen_reloaded]

Looks promising...will try this weekend

[Charan]

Nice and sexy

[gxsaurav]

yipeeeeeeeeeeee

[ravi_9793]

I just installed on my windows vista.Looks very cool.Here are screen shots.

[desiibond]

damn good. Hope it doesn't eat entire RAM

[Third Eye]

Thanks iMav for the info.

[ravi_9793]

Few more screen shots.....







Also added TAB feature...with different color for different TAB.

[gxsaurav]

looks cool, new smily finally....

however, on my system it is very slow. even typing text is slow....eating 80 MB of RAM...it's unable to keep track with my typing speed.,

I hope this is a beta release. It installs at "C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Yahoo!\Messenger for Vista\"

[iMav]

looks like u boys having fun

[gxsaurav]

Well...yeah, looks gr8

The app makes full use of WPF, means u need a good CPU & GFX card for fluid operation. I had to force optimisation using NGEN to get some speed in this.

Where is photoshare in this?

[fun2sh]

mummy mere ko bhi chahiye ye yahoo messenger.......... broadband lagwao!!!!!!!!

[hemant_mathur]

Doesn't works on vista x64

[The_Devil_Himself]

Originally Posted by fun2sh

mummy mere ko bhi chahiye ye yahoo messenger.......... broadband lagwao!!!!!!!!

post reported for bringing in family matters in forum.

lolss.

[Choto Cheeta]

yeah so far for the Fun at my end

[gxsaurav]

Anyone having a Dual Core cpu & DX 9/10 card better then mine, can u tell us how is the performance of this "software", like resizing etc

[Abhishek Dwivedi]

hmm...i didn't expected this frm yahoo....its lacks what all v were expecting...
its acting like a resource hog like Vista on ma machine...100MB RAM in one go..

hope yahoo does sumthing about dis...v want Resource frndly SW's...


@ravi: dont tell ne 1 where i am

[bajaj151]

No voice chat ???

[Gigacore]

wow its really nice..

[Charan]

Its taking loads of resources.. but works even without Aero

[gxsaurav]

It's eating 25 MB with one chat window after optimizing the resources.

Oh! & this isn't the final version. It's a preview build...so yeah, I can live with the slowness.

You can provide the feed back here .
http://feedback.help.yahoo.com/feedb...2007.11.30.420

Let's over load them with feedback

[jal_desai]

Originally Posted by hemant_mathur

Doesn't works on vista x64

matlab main use nahin kar sakta.....

is there a way to use it on my home premium x64???

[goobimama]

@ravi: Thanks a lot for the screenshots mate. Really appreciated.

@gx: Noooooooooo! I hope they didn't touch the smiley! I could crack up just looking at that! Ah. I see him now. Fourth row, first column. But he looks a bit different now... I hope i still find him funny.

[ravi_9793]

This version of yahoo is really eating lots of resources.

On compaq laptop with 1 GB ram...and Nvidia Geforce graphics card with total 281 MB memory.

Y! messenger for vista is eating :
120 MB -->> when open.
60 MB-->> when minimize
80 MB-->. when close to system tray.

Typing speed while chating is alright.

[gxsaurav]

RAM usage is not a problem, with system with 1 GB RAM or even more we can very well spare 120 MB, CPU usage is a problem.

Hey, I need to check whether photoshare work or not....anyone willing to be my bakra

[din]

May be Yahoo Messenger is spoiled looking at the huge resource Vista using

[goobimama]

Still, 120MB of RAM is a lot of memory for a simple messenger. I hope they make it tighter with the final release. It's not like Yahoo is the only app you are going to run on a machine...

[gxsaurav]

Originally Posted by goobimama

Still, 120MB of RAM is a lot of memory for a simple messenger. I hope they make it tighter with the final release. It's not like Yahoo is the only app you are going to run on a machine...

It's a preview release so expect changes. Hack even photoshare isn't there. Right now it is only a cool skin.

I uploaded the installer at my skydrive

What skin r u guys using? I m using wood.