Comments on: Yahoo! Messenger Retires Older Versions

By: rhanu

rhanu — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:38:12 +0000

I’m not sure to use YM older it’s meaning there are some feature in new version not in old version. But I friend tell that YM in new version still not stabil. And I still research what trouble …., some feature is easy infected by virus ….. and alwyas restrart YM …
So maybe anybody can explain me maybe there is something that I have to avoid in my system ?….

By: rose

rose — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:26:21 +0000

I uninstalled my Yahoo IM because the one I had was constantly crashing…. now I cant Install it again because it gets stuck at 100% and never finishes!! GREAT JOB YAHOO! THANKS!

By: Bob DeLoyd

Bob DeLoyd — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:18:35 +0000

The newest version didn’t work on my friends older computer running Win98SE. So I’m going to tell her to try Messenger 6 or 7.You can download at oldversion.com

//bob

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:37:05 +0000

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

Michael — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:06:44 +0000

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

Hootie — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:03:04 +0000

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

FileMaker Freeware — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:55:46 +0000

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

Yahoo! Messenger Retires Older Versions at Henricus — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:33:15 +0000

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