Yahoo! Messenger for Mac With Voice

On Macs, Yahoo! Messenger doesn't have some of features that made it so popular on Windows, but things are changing with each new release, no matter if we're talking about final ones, or Betas. For now, the current non beta for Mac is 2.5.3, and is dated back in 2003, missing a lot of features and being quite buggy, as users reported. In June 2006, the first Beta for Mac OS X arrived, and remained in a perpetual Beta stage since then, despite all new builds that were made public. Now, the latest Beta has finally managed to add a feature everyone was expecting on the Mac version of Yahoo's instant messaging software...


Ready to be downloaded for free from the official page, the new Yahoo! Messenger 3 Beta 3 for Mac is now a Universal Binary, so it's going to work natively on both Mactels and Power PC-based Macs, and comes with tabbed chats and voice calling.

Being given the above, most things that can be done with the Windows version are now also possible on Mac, including free computer to computer calls, the ability to use a Phone Out account to call regular phones from your computer via Yahoo! Messenger, SMS messaging, as well as the chance to receive calls from phones on your Mac, but that is only possible if you have a paid Phone In account.

These being said, I only hope they will release a stable version once and for all, because I know a lot of people that usually don't even try Betas, and Mac users could also add a little crowd to the mass of Yahoo users, but they could also simply go away, if things are not right. After all, there are plenty of choices when it comes to instant messaging, don't you think?

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