Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista

Yahoo premiered its new Windows Vista line. Its basically Yahoo’s answer to Aim Triton. It features some interesting touches and features that puts it as a strong opponent against the Aim Empire. The Friends list is displayed neatly ontop of each other with a icon preview of each of their names. A green or red bar next to their picture displays their online status. The most interesting feature is the Widgets and Skins areas. You can move a friend over to the Yahoo Widgets sidebar to see their status all the time. You can also change the skins of the program instantly with a click on the color wheel. You can change it to Opaque with different colors, or you can choose a texture such as grass and woodgrain. They also added tabbing, which right now is kind of clunky. For every new IM window you must drag that window over another window’s tab area. These two windows will merge to form a tabbed conversation. Hopefully they allow a setting that makes all windows become tabbed regardless. Yahoo messenger supports transparent windows with the Windows Vista Aero theme, however it looks rather silly when multiple IM windows show up. There’s more to come but you can take a video tour at the new preview page.