IM me from Yahoo…But I use MSN…it’s ok it works

After nine months of talks, Yahoo Messenger with Voice and Windows Live Messenger (what was MSN Messenger) will finally connect. This will bring together 350 million people onto one platform. The service is being launched globally in 15 languages, allowing users to sign into both services using one user ID, and to see the status of friends from both networks.

So who’s left on the street? Google and AOL/AIM who have been working on merging their systems as well but there have not yet been any announcements.

Google said, “From the very beginning, the Google Talk service was built to support interoperability with hundreds of other communications service providers. Any service provider that supports industry standard protocols can federate with us today, and many have…”

Try it out [Yahoo]
Try it out [MSN]
Read more details and how to begin the switch [BigBlueBall]