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Yahoo! Messenger is a popular advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!.Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically
notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service,
and chat rooms in various categories. In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages.
It was also the first major IM client to feature BUZZing and music-status.
Another recently added feature is customized avatars.
Yahoo! Voice is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, provided by Yahoo! via its Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging application.
It is only available for the Windows platform. Yahoo! added voicemail and file sending capabilities to their client.
File-sharing of sizes up to 1GB was added. Yahoo! plans to integrate Yahoo! Mail Beta and Yahoo! Messenger.
Conversations will be archived and stored in the same manner as emails.
This allows users to search within their chat logs easily, and to have them centrally stored and accessible from any computer. All versions of Yahoo! Messenger
have included the ability to access Yahoo! Chat rooms. Offline messaging, a feature long offered by Yahoo!, allows online users to send messages to their contacts, even if said contacts
are not signed in at the time.
The sender's offline contacts will receive these messages
when they next go online.
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