Comments on: Yahoo! Messenger Retires Older Versions http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/ Technology, Blogging, New Media and Web 2.0 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:20:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Keith http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-631439 Keith Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:37:05 +0000 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-631439 Whoever wrote this article is very misinformed. Forcing people to ugrade to poorer versions of YM is NOT a good thing. You mentioned enhanced security, but the fact of the matter is their is now LESS security than ever before. With the older versions you could go into a chatroom and close off your pm's. Now you CAN'T. Before if a flooder(booter) came into the room or scrolled. It would be autoignored. Now everyone gets blocked from even manually ignoring the flooder with a stupid dialogue box that says "you cant ignore yourself" well DOH! And as for the spam. Humans are required to waste time putting in passcodes, while the bots that spam have free rein on chat...GO FIGURE!. As the saying goes "If it's not broke don't fix it"..yahoo's so called improvements are actually a step back. The newer versions are worse than they have ever been. How did I wind up here? I'm looking for an oder version to reinstall..LOL Whoever wrote this article is very misinformed. Forcing people to ugrade to poorer versions of YM is NOT a good thing. You mentioned enhanced security, but the fact of the matter is their is now LESS security than ever before. With the older versions you could go into a chatroom and close off your pm’s. Now you CAN’T. Before if a flooder(booter) came into the room or scrolled. It would be autoignored. Now everyone gets blocked from even manually ignoring the flooder with a stupid dialogue box that says “you cant ignore yourself” well DOH!

And as for the spam. Humans are required to waste time putting in passcodes, while the bots that spam have free rein on chat…GO FIGURE!.

As the saying goes “If it’s not broke don’t fix it”..yahoo’s so called improvements are actually a step back. The newer versions are worse than they have ever been.

How did I wind up here? I’m looking for an oder version to reinstall..LOL

]]> By: Michael http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-627588 Michael Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:06:44 +0000 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-627588 I use an older laptop that runs Windows NT 4.0, and since the new versions don't support NT and Messenger on the Web requires Adobe flash 9 which doesn't work on NT either I won't be using Yahoo messenger anymore. I use an older laptop that runs Windows NT 4.0, and since the new versions don’t support NT and Messenger on the Web requires Adobe flash 9 which doesn’t work on NT either I won’t be using Yahoo messenger anymore.

]]> By: Hootie http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-627549 Hootie Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:03:04 +0000 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-627549 I'm not sure its a good idea to retire older versions, right now i just uninstalled an old version of YIM and now i can't download the new 8.1 version. My comp tries to d/l the files but just keeps skipping from 1% to 3% then 100% but never finishes or opens anything. I've had this problem with downloading newer versions before so i was always stuck using the original version i started with 5 yrs ago. Now im not able to get a new YIM at all. I’m not sure its a good idea to retire older versions, right now i just uninstalled an old version of YIM and now i can’t download the new 8.1 version. My comp tries to d/l the files but just keeps skipping from 1% to 3% then 100% but never finishes or opens anything. I’ve had this problem with downloading newer versions before so i was always stuck using the original version i started with 5 yrs ago. Now im not able to get a new YIM at all.

]]> By: FileMaker Freeware http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-624100 FileMaker Freeware Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:55:46 +0000 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-624100 I guess the older version may also contain now fixed security vulnerabilities, so forcing an upgrade to the latest versions remove these problems from their network. I guess the older version may also contain now fixed security vulnerabilities, so forcing an upgrade to the latest versions remove these problems from their network.

]]> By: Yahoo! Messenger Retires Older Versions at Henricus http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-623923 Yahoo! Messenger Retires Older Versions at Henricus Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:33:15 +0000 http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/03/yahoo-messenger-retires-older-versions/#comment-623923 [...] Yahoo! Messenger will officially retire older versions 5.5 and 5.6 of the popular IM software. This means that users of these outdated versions will not be able to login into Yahoo Messenger after April 2, 2008. (more…) [...] [...] Yahoo! Messenger will officially retire older versions 5.5 and 5.6 of the popular IM software. This means that users of these outdated versions will not be able to login into Yahoo Messenger after April 2, 2008. (more…) [...]

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