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Yahoo! Messenger gets free 800 calling and new version
I could have sworn that Yahoo! Messenger already did this, but according to this post from the Yahoo! Messenger blog, you can call any 800 (or other typical free - 877 / 866 / 888 / etc. call) and not use any minutes from your Yahoo! Voice account.This announcement coincides with the upcoming Yahoo! promo for the movie "The Messengers", something to do with a 'click-to-call' (whatever that is) campaign they will be running. Hopefully, this isn't the start of getting ads played before you make a call.
In addition, the post mentions a new minor upgrade to v8.1.239. We're told that changes include voice quality improvements and minor fixes for it running in MS Vista (but why not just run the Vista version instead??)
The voice quality continues to be decent, certainly good enough that I've dropped long distance and international calling from my landline - preferring a combination of my cell & Y! IM to call around the world.
Go get it from the official download page.
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Subscribe to commentsJeffJan 27th 2007 7:27PM
Why not use the vista version? Well - first, obviously - you need Vista, but second - often times people like the earlier versions of programs like that, and prefer to not upgrade. It may be more of a memory hog, or lose or move features, etc... When it works - why not keep it?
I know that I was not happy with the most recent version of Yahoo Messenger. I lost some simple features that the old program had that this doesn't (and it has nothing to do with Yahoo's end either.)
abdelrahmanFeb 8th 2007 3:18PM
.I just wanna to have an-email on yahoo messenger