{"id":777,"date":"2006-07-03T00:45:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T23:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/yahoo-messenger-for-mac-now-able-to-message-windows-live-messenger\/"},"modified":"2006-07-03T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T14:22:53","slug":"yahoo-messenger-for-mac-now-able-to-message-windows-live-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/yahoo-messenger-for-mac-now-able-to-message-windows-live-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Messenger for Mac now able to message Windows Live Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Microsoft&#8217;s and Yahoo&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2005\/oct05\/10-12MSNYahooMessengerPR.mspx\">agreement<\/a> last year to make Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger interoperable so\u00a0users could\u00a0exchange\u00a0instant messages\u00a0between each other on the different networks, we now have some more proof that it&#8217;s in testing, as found out by inziga a member on\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/trillian.cc\/forums\/showthread.php?s=&#038;threadid=81723\">trillian forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One problem though it seems to be only working on the Yahoo Messenger for Mac so youll need a Mac to test this out, or a virtual Mac OS, or even a friend that has a Mac! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is log in to Windows Live Messenger with your passport account (must be @msn.com or @hotmail.com) and log in to Yahoo Messenger for Mac with you Yahoo screename and add a passport account as a contact in Yahoo Messenger Beta for Mac, and hopefully you&#8217;ll be able to talk.<\/p>\n<p>For an image of this check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/trillian.cc\/forums\/showthread.php?s=&#038;threadid=81723\">trillian forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Microsoft&#8217;s and Yahoo&#8217;s\u00a0agreement last year to make Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger interoperable so\u00a0users could\u00a0exchange\u00a0instant messages\u00a0between each other on the different networks, we now have some more proof that it&#8217;s in testing, as found out by inziga a member on\u00a0the trillian forums. One problem though it seems to be only working on the Yahoo Messenger for Mac so<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/03\/yahoo-messenger-for-mac-now-able-to-message-windows-live-messenger\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yahoo Messenger for Mac now able to message Windows Live Messenger&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}