In the MIX with Yahoo! Messenger for Vista

You've got to give Yahoo! some credit for really pushing the Vista stuff here:This week, our Yahoo! Messenger for Vista team is at the Microsoft MIX conferencein Las Vegas (March 5-7). The MIX conference is a chance for developersutilizing Microsoft platforms to discuss new ideas and technologies, aswell as share what they’ve created.Great work is continuing on Yahoo! Messenger for Vista,and members of the team will be meeting with reporters andtechnologists at MIX to give them a preview of what’s coming up in thenext Beta release. We wanted to make sure our readers and users got asneak peek as well.The key feature in the next Beta release will be voice, allowing users to make free PC-to-PC calls and low-cost PC-to-Phone calls right from their PC. And if you have a Phone In number, you will also be able to receive calls from your friends in Yahoo! Messenger for Vista.As part of the voice feature, our designers have been working on somecool voice visualizations for the product that leverage the WPF 3Dintegration. So even if you’re not having a very interesting phoneconversation, we guarantee you’ll be mesmerized by the awesome effects.While we don’t have a definitive release date for this next Betaversion of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, we’ll keep you posted here onthe blog. In the meantime, if you are running Windows Vista, pleasedownload and try out the preview version available at http://messenger.yahoo.com/vista.Looking good. I'm not a Yahoo! Messenger user, but I wish Microsoft's IM app looked this good in Vista.