Yahoo V Msn

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March 16, 2004 at 4:24 pm #4319

mjc2002
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Haven’t got round to trying out MSN Messenger yet. Does it have anything of interest that Yahoo Messenger doesn’t?

From the little I’ve read on this subject, most people who know Yahoo Messenger rate it more highly than MSN Messenger for 2 main reasons: 1) it gets through firewalls and 2) allows multiple conferencing.

True or False? Other thoughts?

Thanks
Mike

March 16, 2004 at 8:39 pm #48338

tangledlisa
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It all depends on your personal preference – instead of naming all the differences take a look here..a poll was taken awhile back regarding this https://bigblueball.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4768.

1) yes you can get thru firewalls easier (personal opinion)
2) yes you can do multiple conferences

Download it and try it out for yourself.. only way you’ll really decide if you like it or not 🙂

March 17, 2004 at 11:05 am #48340

Foo
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MSN..is not that great…neither is Yahoo.:D

March 17, 2004 at 2:45 pm #48339

zhugeliang
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I have never had a problem getting MSN through any of my firewalls, but whether or not yahoo is better, I can’t really say. Yahoo provides free access to chat rooms, and most Yahoo chatters will say that MSN sucks, but, YIM also seems to have a lot more bugs than MSN (so says a certain Yahoo programmer :p). Anyways, whether one is better than the other really depends on what you want to do with it. If you dont’ plan to use chatrooms, then there really won’t be much of a difference between any of the IM services, whether it be Yahoo, MSN, or even ICQ. With chatrooms, Yahoo is probably the best. I don’t know, I guess the best thing to tell you is to try them all and see which one you like best, lol.
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