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Microsoft and Yahoo! - Tearing down the wall

According to Betanews (article), the two giants will join forces and connect the users from both networks. Assuming this story is authentic – and i'm lead to think it is – people will have no more excuses to stay with MSN and will be able move to a far more complete client – YIM – but most of all, it will show that both Microsoft and Yahoo! acknowledge the power within Google Talk's inter-operability.

I don't care which side will win the war – will the dark side have its way? or will the Jedis have something to say about it? – but as far as i'm concerned, this is good news. Of course, the utopian dream of having every major IM networks under ONE roof – and i don't mean roof as in "client" – is still pretty much impossible, but i'd be happy if we ever reached a point with all of them spread under two roofs. No? Even if we have to wait decades? ;)

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By the way, sorry for the lack of major updates, but i have two major school projects to turn in by monday and i'm heavy at work. I'll try to update the quickposts as often as i can, but i'll be back in no time. I already have a set of semi-completed posts, so don't worry, i'm not MIA, i'm just busy. ;)

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