Yahoo and Microsoft announced this Wednesday that they would permit their real-time message users to communicate directly. They have now started up the public test process.

Reporters found yesterday that the functional show of interflow and the introduction of the new version download interflow both on the websites of Yahoo! Messenger and Microsoft Messenger

It is said that the new Yahoo! Messenger can show the state of the linkmen and send real-time messages to them. The users can securely save all their friends' contacts, and send them real-time messages at any time. However, users of MSN must use the formal version of MSN and acquire the interflow qualification. If the counterpart does not use the formal version or does not acquire the interflow qualification, the interflow will not work..

Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger announced last October that they would implement the mutual interflow. After the initiation of the public test, the new version MSN users can send and receive messages directly to and from the Yahoo! Messenger users. This will create the world's largest IM community, whose users will reach up to 350 million. The senior officials of Yahoo and Microsoft said that their primary test is only the text message, but they will eventually bring in the audio service.

Sources believe that Yahoo and Microsoft will expand the IM interflow in more countries and regions in a few months. This time the test is only taking place in China and Canada etc.

By People's Daily Online