{"id":13064,"date":"2010-11-18T18:33:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/yahoo-messenger-beta-11-released\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:08:09","slug":"yahoo-messenger-beta-11-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/yahoo-messenger-beta-11-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Messenger Beta 11 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yahoo!&#8217;s Messenger<\/strong> has never really competed against <a href=\"http:\/\/windows-live-messenger-2011.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Windows Live Messenger<\/strong><\/a>, but it tries to make itself noticed by stuffing itself full of features. Users have had a full day to try out the beta of version 11 now, so does it do enough to make it the instant messenger we should all be using?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/11\/itsburstingwith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"158\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In short, no.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you liked <a href=\"http:\/\/yahoo-messenger.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>version 10<\/strong><\/a>, there&#8217;s nothing controversial here like there was with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/new-features-in-windows-live-messenger-2010\/\">Live Messenger<\/a><\/strong>. Yahoo! Messenger 11 is just as loud and bursting with features as it ever was, and it&#8217;s just not cool. Offering a radio player, for example, is unnecessary.\u00a0 I&#8217;d be surprised if the social games on offer will stop people playing them on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The best apps today are focused and lightweight, but Yahoo! Messenger hasn&#8217;t got the message. In some ways that&#8217;s a shame, because video calls are still really good, and the IM part is perfectly functional. The whole thing is let down by the bloat and noisy design. Despite being &#8216;new&#8217;, it&#8217;s outdated. Yahoo! has been quietly improving its mail service for a while now, and if I hadn&#8217;t already gone to Gmail, I would consider it. Unfortunately Messenger seems to be moving in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>You can read my <a href=\"http:\/\/yahoo-messenger-beta.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>full review here<\/strong><\/a>, and download it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo!&#8217;s Messenger has never really competed against Windows Live Messenger, but it tries to make itself noticed by stuffing itself full of features. Users have had a full day to try out the beta of version 11 now, so does it do enough to make it the instant messenger we should all be using? In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/yahoo-messenger-beta-11-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yahoo! Messenger Beta 11 Released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2619],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-13064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334590,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064\/revisions\/334590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=13064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}