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Story: Yahoo Messenger for Vista discontinued
Is it a wise decision?
Buying a box of Windows Vista PC users didn't buy just an operating system for their "bare" PC. They bought promises of (finally!) better looking and more user-friendly system. The stories given by software developers led by Microsoft showed us the nice-looking, cool, 3D, animated etc. applications and Microsoft presented a wide range of appliances of the WPF.
After almost two years of having Vista on the market, the only application that is really better-looking than on XP is... the Vista itself. As more and more companies are ignoring the Windows possibilities (and Windows is still and will still be the most popular operating system on Earth for a long time), the question is: why?
I am not sure if designing and creating WPF-based apps is too difficult for developers. Is it perhaps political decision? Hating the Redmond's giant became a good style even for IT branch. The mood around Microsoft is discouraging, no matter what the company does. Trying to discourage users to not using Windows Vista is, however, not the way to get popularity among them.
To be honest: none of my friends (including myself) are using original Yahoo Messenger. We all do communicate by Yahoo's protocol, but we all use different application for that. The promise of creating a nice-looking, "cool" app for IM was encouraging. The screenshots made a great advert of the app: yes, we wanted the messegner. Now, the promise was broken and users were left with nothing (ok, with same "old-looking" app the XP users can have installed). There is nothing new, nothing fresh.
Shame on Yahoo.
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