Everyday Nerd

Microsoft has just announced a formal offer for Yahoo. Microsoft has proposed to Yahoo’s board of directors an offer of $31 per share, a 62% premium over yesterday’s close. The total value of the offer is $44.6 Billion. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said "We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market."

Read the offer details…

Source: [The Road to Know Where]

It’s been almost an entire year since Yahoo first announced it was developing their Yahoo Messenger program for Windows Vista.

Well . . . the Yahoo Messenger Blog has announced the release of their Windows Vista Yahoo Messenger program.

FEATURES:

• Entirely new interface that harnesses the power of WPF, the graphics subsystem in Windows Vista

• Organize your conversations into tabs, or drag and drop a tab out to create a new window
• Keep up with your favorite contacts by dragging them into the Windows Sidebar gadget
• Send enhanced emoticons that have some extra oomph
• Change the color of your IM windows with a built-in skin chooser. Go crazy with a different skin for every IM window!
• Adjust the display size of your contacts with a handy slider
• Arrange your contact list into multiple columns just by resizing your window
• Send instant messages to your Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger contacts
• Send files to friends as large as 2 GB
• Find contacts quickly with the contact search bar. Type in a few letters of the contact’s name or ID and they’ll come up in filtered results.
• As-you-type spell checker that’s smart enough to know that “LOL” is not something to correct
• A preferences menu you can access by right-clicking anywhere at the top of the main Messenger window

Download Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista