Yahoo stops development of Messenger for Vista

Yahoo announced that it has stopped development of the Yahoo Messenger designed to run exclusively on Windows Vista.

It was a Vista-specific version of Yahoo’s instant-messaging programme. Its custom implementation was one of the mainstream, highest profile programmes.

Yahoo’s Terrell Karlsten, in a statement informed that it took a strategic decision to stop external release of Yahoo Messenger for the stand-alone Vista client and instead would be concentrating on delivery of One Windows experience optimised for users of Windows.

Karlsten added that the decision to stop development of Yahoo Messenger for Vista would help Yahoo in increasing efficiencies and provide one full-featured and consistent solution to Window users, whether using Vista or XP.

Public review version of Yahoo Messenger was released in December 2007 and later in March 2008 it issued a beta version. Karlsten informed that the company has no plans to prevent users from continuing its use the service if they had already downloaded the programme, but they would not be offered further updates.

Karlsten stated that Yahoo would encourage downloading of its full-featured Yahoo Messenger 9.0 client by users of Vista, since it was compatible with XP and Vista.

Yahoo also asserted that its experimentation with Windows Presentation Foundation that powers Windows Vista would continue.

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