dinuraj's Journal: Yahoo and Microsoft marry their IM services

Users of the Yahoo and Microsoft instant messaging programs can now contact each other directly. The two firms have released software that ties the two networks into a huge community of 350 million users.The trial software allows people to swap text messages but will eventually let people talk to each other too. Even though they are talking about interoperating, they aren't promising a merger . Are we going to see a consolidation in the IM area ?