Yahoo! builds Web Messenger on Flex

By Alastair | May 4, 2007

Yahoo! has released a beta version of their web messenger. Mike Potter of Adobe gets in a shot at Silverlight over Yahoo!’s choice of Flex over WPF/Silverlight:

Of course, the application release comes hot on the heels of Michael Arrington saying that Silverlight from Microsoft was going to make “Flash/ Flex look like an absolute toy”. Apparently that wasn’t too accurate, because the Yahoo Messenger team chose Flex for the web UI, despite the fact that they have already been working on a WPF version of Messenger for Vista.

That WPF version may see the light of day again if Microsoft buys Yahoo!.

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One Comment

  1. Mike Potter
    Posted May 4, 2007 at 1:22 pm | Permalink

    It wasn’t meant as a shot to Silverlight, as much as a shot to Mike Arrington.

    MS buying Yahoo would make things very interesting indeed.

    Mike

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