Microsoft, Yahoo among others set to link IM services

[grnidone]

A NUMBER OF companies will soon use a unified protocol in their IM (instant messaging) services, as part of an attempt to pull some IM market share away from dominant player America Online (AOL), according to an IMUnified spokeswoman.
 
Yahoo and Microsoft are two of a number of high-profile vendors in IMUnified -- a recently formed coalition trying to develop open standards-based interoperability for instant messaging.

[infoworld.com...]

[chiyo]

Its been a long time coming. It took the major players to realise that they can never "dominate" the Net for it to happen. IM hopefully will become as standard as email.