Well I’ve just downloaded the new Beta of Yahoo Messenger 9.0. And in addition to the upgrade to the UI, they have now integrated Flickr, something that makes it easy to share pictures with your friends, you can easily drag and drop a picture in the chat window and talk about the picture. And they can then save it either to their Flickr account or directly on their hard drive.

They have also integrated a mediaplayer that makes it possible to watch videos inside the program.

The fact that you can IM friends that use Live Messenger is also a nice thing, that way you can use Yahoo Messenger even tough your friends don’t want to make the move from Live Messenger.

It does seem like it might be a bit heavier for the computer to have it running tough. According to my Task Manager Live Messenger is currently occupying 4MB of memory and Yahoo is occupying 34MB when in tray..

Check it their brag-flick here:

And download the program here:

And don’t forget it’s still a Beta product, so it’s not something you should trust all your data to.

What do you think is best, Microsoft or Yahoo? Or perhaps you prefer the open-source program Miranda that supports a bunch of different IM-networks?

Tags: im, messenger, live messenger, yahoo