WLM - Yahoo! Interoperability feature is not reliable

Hi all,

I am a user of WLM 8.1 and I do have Yahoo contacts in my WLM since this
feature has been introduce. It's been a very long time now, and to this day,
I realize the reliability of this feature is still very low. In fact for this
entire week I have been unable to send any IM to any of my Yahoo! contacts.
Furthermore, their status is not shown to be online even when they are.

I have contacted WLM email support a few times and none of the solution
works for me. I could only conclude that the problem here lies somewhere in
the service of either one of this IM service provider.

So, I was hoping that I could bring this matter up to the MSN team or
whoever that is resposible for maintaining the WLM service, hopefully they
may sometime take a look at this feature and maybe fix any problem there is
with it.

I do not expect 100% reliability but I think it could certainly improve, as
for the pass 1 month alone the service has been down so often.

Anyway, I hope I'm posting at the right section lol.

Thank you all...

Jonathan
Sat Jun 16 03:53:28 CDT 2007

Greetings,

Yes, the reliability of interop really is lacking.

Your best bet is really just to give in and use the real Yahoo Messenger client.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--

"Hornet" <Hornet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:46C5E211-BF26-42F2-9062-DA680BC32FC5@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I am a user of WLM 8.1 and I do have Yahoo contacts in my WLM since this
> feature has been introduce. It's been a very long time now, and to this day,
> I realize the reliability of this feature is still very low. In fact for this
> entire week I have been unable to send any IM to any of my Yahoo! contacts.
> Furthermore, their status is not shown to be online even when they are.
>
> I have contacted WLM email support a few times and none of the solution
> works for me. I could only conclude that the problem here lies somewhere in
> the service of either one of this IM service provider.
>
> So, I was hoping that I could bring this matter up to the MSN team or
> whoever that is resposible for maintaining the WLM service, hopefully they
> may sometime take a look at this feature and maybe fix any problem there is
> with it.
>
> I do not expect 100% reliability but I think it could certainly improve, as
> for the pass 1 month alone the service has been down so often.
>
> Anyway, I hope I'm posting at the right section lol.
>
> Thank you all...

MrMosis
Thu Aug 02 21:36:00 CDT 2007

wow.... so this is the official response huh? I have been having these
problems now that I am trying to use this feature.... and I guess Microsoft
never intended me to actually try to use it at all!

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Yes, the reliability of interop really is lacking.
>
> Your best bet is really just to give in and use the real Yahoo Messenger client.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "Hornet" <Hornet@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:46C5E211-BF26-42F2-9062-DA680BC32FC5@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am a user of WLM 8.1 and I do have Yahoo contacts in my WLM since this
> > feature has been introduce. It's been a very long time now, and to this day,
> > I realize the reliability of this feature is still very low. In fact for this
> > entire week I have been unable to send any IM to any of my Yahoo! contacts.
> > Furthermore, their status is not shown to be online even when they are.
> >
> > I have contacted WLM email support a few times and none of the solution
> > works for me. I could only conclude that the problem here lies somewhere in
> > the service of either one of this IM service provider.
> >
> > So, I was hoping that I could bring this matter up to the MSN team or
> > whoever that is resposible for maintaining the WLM service, hopefully they
> > may sometime take a look at this feature and maybe fix any problem there is
> > with it.
> >
> > I do not expect 100% reliability but I think it could certainly improve, as
> > for the pass 1 month alone the service has been down so often.
> >
> > Anyway, I hope I'm posting at the right section lol.
> >
> > Thank you all...
>
>