Why does the MSN Service Status page even exist?

Nick Harvey · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 22.22

Gavin Scott wrote:The new beta version apparently scoured my hard drive and imported all my yahoo contacts.

Ah, so you're another VERY important person.

I shall make a note of that.

Pete · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 22.35

Nick Harvey wrote:Just been chatting to lots of VERY important people.

Nick Harvey wrote:Ah, so you're another VERY important person.

I notice a cryptic pattern forming.

Nick Harvey · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 22.39

Hymagumba wrote:I notice a cryptic pattern forming.

That VERY important people use Yahoo?

Pete · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 22.56

Nick Harvey wrote:
Hymagumba wrote:I notice a cryptic pattern forming.
That VERY important people use Yahoo?

oh, i thought it was a witty anagram of sorts

Nick Harvey · Thu 22 Jun, 2006 23.05

Hymagumba wrote:oh, i thought it was a witty anagram of sorts

No, that would be "tross"!

Pete · Thu 13 Jul, 2006 20.09

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5176032.stm

"Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly.

The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of 350 million users"

Now I've noticed this page
http://messenger.yahoo.com/partners_msn ... J0ZcxwMMIF
at Yahoo, however Windowsw Live is still listing it as coming soon.

Anyone managed to get anything working yet?

Nick Harvey · Fri 14 Jul, 2006 00.04

Well, I'm now on Yahoo 8 which ought to work between the two.

PM me your address on Bill Gates' system and I'll give it a try.

MarkN · Fri 14 Jul, 2006 14.57

Nick Harvey wrote:Well, I'm now on Yahoo 8 which ought to work between the two.

PM me your address on Bill Gates' system and I'll give it a try.

Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/partners_msn.php
Click the "Join the Beta" link
Enter your Yahoo username and password
Now you'll be able to add MSN users to your Yahoo account.

Pete · Fri 14 Jul, 2006 16.13

and apparently I must click "try it" on
http://ideas.live.com/programPage.aspx? ... 5ee3e858fe

which is essentially another sign up beta like Windows Live Messenger was until last month. It could have been a bit more obvious mind.

Nick Harvey · Fri 14 Jul, 2006 18.00

You have a PM!

And (possibly) an MSN message!

Pete · Fri 14 Jul, 2006 18.37

nothing as of yet.

I logged out and back in and it ordered me to upgrade. Maybe that has something to do with it. Try again.

While I'm waiting, I'll see if the other place is still broken