{"id":549510,"date":"2006-07-13T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549510-microsoft-yahoo-link-online-im-systems.html"},"modified":"2006-07-13T12:10:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T12:10:56","slug":"microsoft-yahoo-link-online-im-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549510-microsoft-yahoo-link-online-im-systems.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, Yahoo link online IM systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The move fulfilled a promise the US Internet titans made late last year and marked the first time rival global messaging service providers arranged to co-mingle members. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger with Voice users in more than 15 international markets could get &quot;beta&quot; test versions of the interoperability software at http:\/\/messenger.yahoo.com or http:\/\/ideas.live.com, according to the companies. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The union promised to create the world&#8217;s largest IM community by merging nearly 350 million IM accounts, Microsoft and Yahoo said in a combined release. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;A new era for staying connected with friends and family is here, and the bridge between Yahoo&#8217;s and Microsoft&#8217;s IM communities is bringing people around the world closer together,&quot; said Brad Garlinghouse, senior vice president of Communications, Community and Front Doors, Yahoo. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The beta program would be available in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>INet-Bridge ||<\/em>\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=47945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo and Microsoft released software that built a bridge between their previously exclusive online instant messaging (IM) systems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}