Everyday it is becoming more apparent that Yahoo! Messenger isn’t really playing along for the users that are using Vista. I myself blog and run this site primarily from Windows Vista Home Premium running with SP1. Personally, I haven’t had any problems with the Y! IM 9.0.0.2018. But since the release of Y! IM 9.0.0.2034 I’m now one of the pissed off users of Yahoo Messenger.

So now being a pissed off little blogger who gets 100+ views per day, I’m now going to be referring Yahoo Messenger users to some Yahoo Messenger alternatives.

Here’s a list of what I’ve found:

1. Pidgin 2.5.2
2. Trillian 3.1.11.0
3. Adium 1.3.2
4. Miranda IM 0.7.13

Only ones I do know about are Pidgin and Trillian. Pidgin is found by default in the popular open-source OS Ubuntu. As for Trillian, I had used it as an alternative when I had just gotten Vista and when Yahoo Messenger 8.1 was acting… as if it were dropped while a newborn.

All four mentioned above are all free for private use and all work with Yahoo Messenger accounts. Not to mention, they work flawlessly with Vista and Vista SP1. Kinda sad for a large company like Yahoo can’t control their own software but other 3rd party software’s work better.

Oh, and let me not forget, all four programs named above work with multiple accounts. If you are like me, 2 Yahoo, 2 Hotmail, 2 AOL accounts, you can sign into all of your favorite messenger IDs just by using one program

I wonder if Yahoo can beat that

Edited: 5:07PM November 3, 2008

A few hours ago, Sarah Bacon, Yahoo Messenger’s Product Manager, posted a post asking for Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 users to submit feedback. Don’t worry if you are on XP, the message is toward the Vista users of Y! IM 9.0.

Most of us who are on Vista and use Yahoo Messenger have heard that the new Yahoo Messenger for Vista was discontinued. If you don’t know yet, you can read more about that on the Yahoo Messenger Blog here. Well back to the point, Yahoo Messenger 9.0 has been a bit buggy for some Vista users. Though I can’t complain much about it since I’ve just had one time that it went buggy on me. I don’t know what happened but it worked normally afterwards.

Lately, almost every post that the Yahoo Messenger team or Sarah Bacon has posted has been heckled with Vista users begging and sometimes being a bit vulger about Yahoo bringing back the canceled Yahoo Messenger for Vista. The fight over the messenger has gotten out of the user’s finger tips to “get-what’s-given-to-you.” This is the lowest I’ve ever seen Yahoo treat their members and users.

But oh well, everything in the world is now “Don’t like it? Don’t use it.”

If you want more information, you can go to the Yahoo Messenger Blog or if you are already having crash issues with the 9.0 version on Vista you can e-mail Yahoo and send them what happened, what you were doing when it happened and if it’s fixed what you did to fix the issue to vistatesting@yahoo.com. Remember feedback is crucial. It can even make 9.0 better for all

The Yahoo Messenger team finally launched out the full version of Yahoo Messenger 9.0! I’ve got to admit, it’s pretty cool now. When it was in beta, honestly, it really sucked. It was slow, it crashed a billion times, a few bugs, and all in all it was just too betaish.

Now in the 9.0 version, you have nearly all the options as you did in the previous Yahoo Messenger 8. But what’s cool about this one is that you can change the skin. Not only that. For us bloggers, there’s a new feature called “Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox” which is an embeddable feature that goes into a blog. I’m fixing to add it as I type this, it’s soo cool.

You know, for the first time, words just can’t describe this. Go and download it and try it out. I’m sure you’ll love it!

Remember, download this messenger from Yahoo only. Unless there’s a site you trust.

Download link to Yahoo.