It's been quite a while since we last heard anything about the upcoming Yahoo Messenger interoperability with our beloved Windows Live Messenger since the Initial announcement over 6 months ago.

Naturally, we can't expect full compatibility between the two IM clients at this early stage, but you can probably expect more in the next version of Yahoo Messenger. We can most likely expect the next version of Live Messenger to contain some interoperability with Yahoo Messenger.

MSN Messenger is already the world's most popular Instant Messaging client, and the ability to communicate with Yahoo contacts will certainly provide a huge boost to it's popularity. Stay tuned.

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