Yahoo! Messenger Crashes On XP SP3

December 28th, 2007 by Brandon

Microsoft just released a beta of the new service pack 3 for the Windows XP OS.  There are some people are having issues running the 8.1 version of Yahoo! Messenger.

Yahoo! Messenger Error

Some reports are saying that it will freeze after only 30 minutes of use. After sending feedback to Yahoo!, a response saying that the version of Yahoo! Messenger was not installed properly, and you are advised to simply do a re-install of the product. The only problem being that the same issues will continue to happen even after a fresh install of Yahoo! Messenger. Perhaps the beta version of messenger will fair better with the new service pack.

Yahoo! Messenger 7.1 dead?

December 11th, 2007 by Brandon

Has the messenger team pulled the plug for the 7.1 version of messenger? I am getting reports from various sources, that they simply can not login to the messenger service.  I remember reading that Yahoo! will be dropping support for older clients, in a push to get people on the new 9.0 beta or the vista beta.
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