I’m not a big Instant Messenger user, but folks that use Yahoo! Messenger might be happy to see the latest preview release specifically for Vista. It’s built on the Windows Presentation Foundation and integrates quite nicely with the Vista Sidebar: you can drag a contact to the Sidebar for easy access. The advanced emoticons seem a little over the top in that they cover up the text briefly when running through their animation, but I’ll admit they do look nice!Also included is an automatic spell-check function and the ability to simply drag and drop a file of up to 2GB and send it to your buds. Remember, it’s just a preview release so some advanced features and functions aren’t there yet. You can catch a brief video overview on the Yahoo! announcement page to see what’s there, what’s not and how it looks in Vista. All-in-all, it looks pretty slick, but the one question I have: is it ink-aware? Maybe someone who uses Messenger can give it a go and report back.
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